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Subject: Re: Jimmy Kimmel Calls USA "Filthy And Disgusting" After Traveling
 to Japan: "We Are Like Hogs Compared to the Japanese"
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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!"

-- 
Rhino