PeKaatjeAnkeveen, North Holland Netherlands6,334 posts
problem with the fugitives is they need a place to stay. In the past we had youthcentra, there the young kids between 13-20 used to hang around, drink beer, smoke marihuana, played games, talked and did some volunteering work. The government broke these centra off about 20 years ago and now everybody is complaining cuz the youth is hanging around on the streets, drinking beer in public, smoking to. Even if they are to young, they do so, laws have changed in the last 20 years.
Same thing with centra where old people used to live, they had meals in the restaurant, gamingafternoons, dancing, singing etc. Then the government decided the old people that are capable to take care of themselves has to live on their own as long as possible. Only if you are really too sick, then you can go to a nurseryhouse, but most of these are full already. So the old sick people have to wait and arange help from family and friends. Actually, now I am teaching a man with parkinson how to play chess. Thinking stimulates the brain and the proces downwards can be slowed down a little I believe.
The negative effect is that there ain't enough houses for the young people and we have to keep building in high speed. But because of the climate change and the rules around it, we ain't allowed to build very much. So people are on a list sometimes up to 20 years waiting til they can rent a house. Most young people have a debt because they lended money for their study, so they can't get financial support from the bank for buying a house.
And then there come the fugs, in thousands, demanding they want a house, and our government gives them the houses ASAP. Last our immigration minister said that there were 7000 people in fugitivecentra waiting for a house, and if we could give them these houses we had 7000 places in the centra for new fugitives. That's a ridiculous thought. Over 20% of the people living in the Netherlands isn't born here, and that nr is growing fast. There's one solution, sending back everybody who can return home safe, like people from former Yugoslavia. That war has ended decades ago, why don't these people return? Build up their own country if needed and be proud.
Man, I fell in love with Flagstaff Arizona back in the 70s on my drives to California and home in Ohio. Old rout 66 was a trip with all the iconic buildings and signs there. Got one speeding ticket there then. Actually paid it when After I arrived in my destination in Southern California.
Judge Garcia actually sent me a thank you note for paying the ticket. At the time I was going to schools out there in SoCo and I was so poe that I had to use bailing wire to hold up one of the mufflers on my 67 chevy camaro.
Soonyuleknow: Flag is great. After I got out of the service I attended NAU.
Loved the foothills there.
I attended UC Irvine and orange coast cc. Irvine was ten years young and crazy then. Two year transferable tuitions were pretty much free for residents back then for certain programs. Proposition 13 may have changed all that. Dont know.
I would like them to finally address the homeless situation. They have drawn millions for a Covid (a new disease), while kids are still sleeping rough for years on end.
I would like to see more strict rules on social welfare and higher investigations... the amount of people who are frauding the system is a joke.
And lastly a new government with Woman in higher numbers.
galrads: Off the top, I would like to put Covid-19 behind us and see better relations among other countries but I’d prefer the USA remain limited in its participation in nato and who. We should remove military boots from most other places in 2021.
Yes that’s true. The military should remove. I agree ??????
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