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On 4/5/24 8:25 AM, FPP wrote:
> On 4/4/24 9:22 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".
>>
>> 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%.
>>
> 
> 
> Of course things get worse here.  One party has been in control of one 
> house of Congress, and hasn't addressed a single problem.
> 
> You get that the people in your party aren't interested in doing 
> anything to better your life.
> 
> Go ahead... tell us what big problems they've tackled?  Because they 
> sure promised they were going to do great things to lower costs and 
> control the border.
> 
> So far, nothing.


Republicans are a boat anchor to this country, preventing us from moving 
forward on any issue.