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On 4/4/24 8:22 PM, BTR1701 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".


Which has the bigger economy moron?  Bigger economy, more stuff to be 
done with the money.  And did someone put a gun to your head to live 
there?  You whine incessantly about Cali as if to say "if only I hadn't 
had my balls cut off and could move somewhere else."  How effeminate are 
you, all the effeminates?



> 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%.