By John Buchard

May 19, 2024

Extensive chaos is enveloping many once-safe neighborhoods nationwide, and its roots run deep. For several years, hardship and homelessness have actually been intensifying, without any indications of relief. A current Harvard University research study exposes that the homeless population has actually risen by almost 50% in under 4 years. As the middle class continues to diminish, the ranks of the impoverished have swelled. 

Presently, an incredible 40% of the United States population is either living in hardship or having a hard time making ends meet as part of the working poor. In addition, the wealth gap is large, with the bottom 50% of the population holding a simple 2.6% of the country’s wealth, a figure that has most likely gotten worse given that 2021. This prevalent financial difficulty is adding to a troubling rise in theft and violence in significant cities, yet those in power appear at a loss for options.
Adding to this is a huge increase in illegal immigration. Most of whom are without jobs orn any prospect  of employment as they lack essential skills and education and language barriers. It’s estimated that of the 50 million illegals in the USA as of 2024, barely 20% are gainfully employed in other than nearly worthless make-work projects set up by federal, state, and local governments. 98% of whom fall below the minimum income required to pay federal or state and local taxes, and what is far worse is that studies have shown that they are a huge burden on the US economy, with estimates that they impact the US economy in both indirect and direct ways at $100,000 per illegal immigrant. For example, the education required by all of their children. all of whom require special needs, is an average of $35,000 per year, and many have multiple children. The total burden on the economy is about $5 Trillion per year (that’s 5,000,000,000,000 ), which is equivalent to 83% of the total US federal budget. 

Homelessness is a major concern not just in significant seaside cities like Los Angeles and New York but likewise increasingly common in the main areas of the nation.

Veteran Nashville residents are discovering it more challenging to protect budget-friendly real estate people flooding the marketplace, pressing home values skyward and requiring lots of problems with long-time residents being displaced by people moving into Nashville. 

This year, the primary data of the Tennessee capital reveal a 77 percent boost in the rates of persistent homelessness.

Almost 80% over a 12-month duration, with many being forced out of their homes by skyrocketing rents.

Time out for a moment and permit that number to sink in.

Presently, the typical expense of a one-bedroom home in Nashville is more than $1,400 each month.

The expense of leasing a one-bedroom apartment or condo in the Nashville area has experienced a substantial rise, leaping by $200 over the past 12 months to reach a regular monthly rate of $1,442, as reported by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

It’s estimated that homelessness will increase without a boost in budget-friendly real estate, specifying with confidence that the circumstance would likely double in seriousness.

Home worths in Nashville have escalated to unreasonable levels.

Since February’s close, the middle point of Nashville’s home prices reached $414,012, marking a considerable boost from the $290,983 midpoint taped simply four years previously.

The intensifying expense of homeownership is a main aspect adding to the prevalent financial stress and difficulty presently impacting individuals nationwide.

The other day, I discussed how home rental costs in the United States have increased by 47% because of the start of the year. Much of this can be traced directly to the massive increase in illegal immigration, which has increased the number of shelter seekers by as much as 15 million in the past 3.5 years with no end in sight. Many of these illegals receive grants and subsidies from the federal, state, and local governments that allow them to push low-income Americans out of their homes. 

This clarifies why camping tent neighborhoods are appearing throughout the nation.

Throughout my entire lifetime, I’ve experienced nothing like the unmatched variety of people slumbering on American pathways.

Many people in San Francisco struggle with dependency, and the city has executed a questionable program targeted at supporting them by offering complimentary alcohol, consisting of beer and vodka shots.

The municipal government of San Francisco has actually introduced a lesser-publicized effort, moneyed by public dollars, which uses complimentary drinks consisting of beer and vodka for people experiencing homelessness who battle alcoholism.

San Francisco’s Department of Public Health runs a program called the “Managed Alcohol Program” that supplies regulated quantities of alcohol to people dealing with alcoholism. The objective is to decrease the variety of homeless individuals on the streets and reduce the problem of the city’s emergency services. Fans think the program can conserve lives, while critics question whether the federal government needs to assign resources to treatment and sobriety programs.

In Canada and Australia, a handled alcohol program is usually supervised by health care experts and assistance staff members at places like homeless shelters or transitional real estate, providing a method to lower the unfavorable impacts of alcoholism, as described in a 2020 post from the California Health Care Foundation

You can’t be severe!

San Francisco has an enduring program that supplies drug users with needles at no charge.

Undoubtedly, the obstacles challenging San Francisco have intensified, resulting in a substantial exodus of many companies from the city.

Change to a superior strategy.

American Eagle has just recently departed from downtown San Francisco.

San Francisco’s downtown location is experiencing a substantial departure of merchants, with the current casualty being a shop at the distressed San Francisco Centre shopping mall, which is having a hard time handling the city’s intensifying issues of lawlessness and a growing homeless population.

American Eagle reported that it would be closing down its facility at the previous Westfield San Francisco Centre throughout the summertime. The choice was made due to over 100 significant security problems from May 2020 to May 2023.

People with drug dependency typically turn to theft to support their practices.

Presently, we are experiencing the most severe dependency crisis ever seen in the history of the United States, which is a significant contributing aspect to the unmatched level of retail theft crisis in the country’s history.

In the last five years, shoplifting and stock losses have massively risen, leading to an incredible yearly expenditure of over $120 billion for merchants, a more than twofold boost from previous years. All the costs plus increasing security are passed to consumers, which intensifies inflation.

Current merchant income reports have actually highlighted the effect of retail losses on revenue margins and profit efficiency. Retail losses describe stock loss brought on by theft, shoplifting, damage, or mistakes. Formerly viewed as a required overhead, retail shrinking caused benefit losses going beyond $120 billion.

The problem is becoming much more worrying as the pattern of decrease reveals no indications of altering, with losses increasing by more than two times in the last five years.

These represent the reality.

I apologize if there are people who dislike them.

Along with extensive theft, our streets are likewise overrun with prevalent violence.

Earlier today, I was amazed that more than 79,000 events of violence were directed toward policemen in the United States in 2023.

In 2023, a brand-new FBI report exposed that the variety of attacks American police officers struck a peak not seen in the past years, with over 79,000 attacks reported.

The research study looks at details collected from different federal government entities across the country to determine patterns in attacks on police workers. The findings show an increasing occurrence of policemen being assaulted and injured by guns.

At present, I would rule out the policing profession in any of our big cities. Nject to increasing violence and being overwhelmed by duties, they also  face the genuine possibility should any of their defensive actions violate the norms of “social justice.”

America is becoming very dangerous.

Unfortunately, the present boost in criminal offenses throughout the country is worsening the existence of criminal gangs flooding into the US from many nations. Venezuela, Haiti, Columbia, and the Dominican Republic are among the nations that have opened their prisons and sent their most violent criminals to the US, where they are welcomed by the Biden Administration and sent to neighborhoods throughout the US with the warning never to return. 

Police authorities in Michigan are cautioning about a growing phenomenon called “break-in tourist,” in which organized criminal networks from abroad are penetrating the nation to target and ransack upscale houses in the suburbs.

According to Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard, who appeared on “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday, the extraordinary level of preparation and proficiency shown by these people recommends that they should have gone through some type of specialized direction, allowing them to browse and attack houses with such accuracy and efficiency.

“They carry out substantial reconnaissance before operations. They make an effort to recognize when a home will be unoccupied. They promptly relocate, smashing a window to get entry without being spotted through doors or windows. In addition, they use an electronic gadget to interfere with alarms.”

According to Bouchard, the criminal companies responsible for the prevalent chaos in his Michigan area are mainly consisted of people who illegally entered from Chile.

According to Bouchard, these criminal companies, mainly coming from Chile, focus on swift and tactical thefts, concentrating on prized possessions saved in domestic safes and high-end products of modest size.

Their primary focus is on high-end products such as pricey precious jewelry, watches, money, and high-end purses that are important and quickly saleable. They target numerous homes in our area before proceeding to another area or part of the nation. A brand-new group takes control of the operation in the next location, continuing to repeat the pattern.

In different regions, crime rates have surged to groups originating from other locations.
ncreaing part in the crime wave engulfing the US. 
According to a recent Gallup survey, a large of Americans, totaling 63 percent, perceive crime as a significant issue in the country despite the federal government’s attempts to downplay the situation. Illegal immigrants are playing a major role in the crime wave engulfing the US with no end in sight.

The crime issue in the United States is seen as significantly severe by 63% of Americans, an increase from 54% in 2021 and marks the highest level recorded in Gallup’s data history.

The fabric of our society is falling apart before our very eyes.

Years of poor choices have led us to this, with our leaders persisting in leading us astray.

However, the current situation is only a glimpse of what’s to come – the real challenges will arise in the next 12 to 24 months.