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bunkers... everything KTLA and more ...nice weather
we reflected to Trump's knee jerk into the Wall from the Border Patrol fight ... WTH do we do with the retarded psycho- social pop ? camping at Organ Pipe on the MX/AZ border n driving north up the one road access near dawn we always pass well turned out pickups loaded to 10' n over cab with furniture and woven draping hairdos of not bad looking at distance bicycles ahgoin south zoooom. Very pro looking. |
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On 11/20/2017 8:44 AM, AMuzi wrote:
http://beta.latimes.com/local/lanow/...118-story.html Yesterday I talked to a friend who had just returned from a vacation in Scotland, with an added day or two in London. He loved Scotland (where he once lived) but didn't like London. "Too dirty, too crowded, and homeless people everywhere." So I wondered about England's homeless population compared to the U.S., and found this claiming they are roughly the same, percentage-wise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ess_population (The UK as a whole is much higher.) But the differences by nation are extreme, even among relatively wealthy countries. What makes the difference? (And why, for example, is New Zealand's so high?) Seems to me that for the past couple hundred years, engineers have done whatever was reasonably asked. Too bad economists and sociologists haven't kept up. -- - Frank Krygowski |
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On 11/20/2017 1:16 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 11/20/2017 8:44 AM, AMuzi wrote: http://beta.latimes.com/local/lanow/...118-story.html Yesterday I talked to a friend who had just returned from a vacation in Scotland, with an added day or two in London. He loved Scotland (where he once lived) but didn't like London. "Too dirty, too crowded, and homeless people everywhere." So I wondered about England's homeless population compared to the U.S., and found this claiming they are roughly the same, percentage-wise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ess_population (The UK as a whole is much higher.) But the differences by nation are extreme, even among relatively wealthy countries. What makes the difference? (And why, for example, is New Zealand's so high?) Seems to me that for the past couple hundred years, engineers have done whatever was reasonably asked. Too bad economists and sociologists haven't kept up. Yes, engineers are experts at efficiency and conservation of limited resources, but their solutions are not normally subject to plebiscite by the unwashed masses. -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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On Monday, November 20, 2017 at 12:16:23 PM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 11/20/2017 8:44 AM, AMuzi wrote: http://beta.latimes.com/local/lanow/...118-story.html Yesterday I talked to a friend who had just returned from a vacation in Scotland, with an added day or two in London. He loved Scotland (where he once lived) but didn't like London. "Too dirty, too crowded, and homeless people everywhere." So I wondered about England's homeless population compared to the U.S., and found this claiming they are roughly the same, percentage-wise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ess_population (The UK as a whole is much higher.) But the differences by nation are extreme, even among relatively wealthy countries. What makes the difference? (And why, for example, is New Zealand's so high?) Seems to me that for the past couple hundred years, engineers have done whatever was reasonably asked. Too bad economists and sociologists haven't kept up. -- - Frank Krygowski traces of youth in asia... I wudda thought pure homelessness as compared to 'bicycle touring' was parallel with temperature range n rain not so need water n trees 'troughs n feeders ... per capita...per capita por favor then regress https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.8ce722a63637 |
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On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 14:16:17 -0500, Frank Krygowski
wrote: On 11/20/2017 8:44 AM, AMuzi wrote: http://beta.latimes.com/local/lanow/...118-story.html Yesterday I talked to a friend who had just returned from a vacation in Scotland, with an added day or two in London. He loved Scotland (where he once lived) but didn't like London. "Too dirty, too crowded, and homeless people everywhere." So I wondered about England's homeless population compared to the U.S., and found this claiming they are roughly the same, percentage-wise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ess_population (The UK as a whole is much higher.) But the differences by nation are extreme, even among relatively wealthy countries. What makes the difference? (And why, for example, is New Zealand's so high?) Seems to me that for the past couple hundred years, engineers have done whatever was reasonably asked. Too bad economists and sociologists haven't kept up. I wonder how accurate some of the homeless numbers are. See https://homelessworldcup.org/homeles...atistics/#asia note that in every case some of the numbers are "estimated". Another point is, at least in India, there are whole settlements that live on the streets. From what I read, and was told when I was in India, these are largely people that moved into cities from the country in order to get better paying jobs, or perhaps more accurately, jobs that paid some money. One might almost say, "homeless by preference". Thailand, for example, has in excess of 100% employment - based on the number of workers as a percentage of citizens - and yet has some "homeless", or at least people that appear to be without a "home". But in the cases that I see these people aren't exactly destitute but are actually self employed, usually in gleaning trash receptacles and collecting scrap metal and plastics - there is a very active plastics and metal reclamation industry in Thailand. I'm guessing here, but given that there are more jobs in Thailand then there are citizens, that the "homeless" are homeless for some reason other then simply a lack of jobs. -- Cheers, John B. |
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