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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!news.nobody.at!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Jimmy Kimmel Calls USA "Filthy And Disgusting" After Traveling to Japan: "We Are Like Hogs Compared to the Japanese" Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 02:50:34 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 72 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2024 02:50:35 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a816d6510490615e9ed85081e2e71aec"; logging-data="1194912"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18l2AirhUSZ4PM7PHRoHaBoDRc2uRFaqoE=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:A0O567CuVKKMkATX4jyWV4cmeAc= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 4314 BTR1701 wrote: >In article , FPP >wrote: > >> On 4/4/24 4:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >> > In article , >> > Ubiquitous wrote: >> > >> >> Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel said he's looking at America in a new light >> >> after a recent visit to Japan. >> >> >> >> The 56-year-old said his trip abroad made him realize that the U.S. is >> >> unsanitary compared to the land of the rising sun. >> >> >> >> "After traveling to Japan, I realize that this place, this USA we're >> >> always >> >> chanting about, is a filthy and disgusting country," he said during his >> >> monologue on Monday night's episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live." >> > >> > I agree with him. My trip to Tokyo was an eye-opener. I've never seen a >> > city so clean and beautiful with pleasant, polite, happy people >> > everywhere you go. Its only drawback was that-- of all the places I've >> > been around the world-- it's one of the harder cities to get around and >> > function in if you don't speak the language. I thought at the time that >> > if I spoke and read Japanese, I'd consider living in Tokyo for good if I >> > could. >> > >> > Coming back to the shit-pile Los Angeles has become in just the last 10 >> > short years was very disheartening. >> > >> > It's no surprise it would be especially noticeable to Kimmel, whose >> > show's home is in an old Masonic temple right across Hollywood Blvd from >> > the Chinese Theater and the Hollywood-and-Highland Complex, where >> > fentanyl addicts stagger around like WALKING DEAD extras, crime is out >> > of control, vagrants tents and trash mountains abound, and dead bodies >> > lying on the sidewalk are a routine occurrence. >> > >> > Coming back to that from Japan would be quite a contrast indeed. >> > >> Japan's taxes vs US are generally considered to be pretty high. > >At least the citizens of Japan get value in return for their taxes. > >I live in the highest tax state in the union and when we call the cops >for things like a vagrant openly masturbating in a park while watching >kids, the response is "there's nothing we can do". > >Betcha that doesn't happen in Japan. > >When businesses are run into the ground by repeated break-ins and the >fact that customers can't even get into their front doors anymore >because there's a tent and trash mountain and meth addict face-down in a >puddle of his own vomit blocking them, if they get any response from the >city council besides a bored shrug, they're told "there's nothing we can >do". > >Betcha that doesn't happen in Japan. > >Over and over, crime after crime... "There's nothing we can do. Now shut >up and give us more tax money." > >> So you'd be OK with higher taxes to fix our problems at home, right? > >Except I already pay higher taxes and the problems only get worse here. > >Over the last three years the people of L.A. County were taxed more than >$3 billion "to fight homelessness". At the end of that three years, with >three billion of our tax dollars gone, what was the result? > >Homelessness has increased by 32%. They didn't get bused to Chicago.