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On 4/4/2024 9:38 PM, Rhino wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Apr 2024 18:22:48 -0700
> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> In article <uunf55$v0c0$1@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 4/4/24 4:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>> In article <uumno6$p8sf$2@dont-email.me>,
>>>>    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> 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%.
> 
> You just *know* the "progressive" response to that will be: "Just think
> how much worse it would have been if we hadn't spent that $3 billion on
> the problem!"

You may *dream* it.  You don't *know* it.

In fact, though it's an obvious riposte, I think I've never heard it...