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David Dennison

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Posts posted by David Dennison

  1. 5 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:

    They should have passed a standalone bill in the House that permanently lifted the debt ceiling, and then told the Republicans that it was pass that or nothing.   No weaponizing or leveraging for other policy purposes; just straight up repeal of it altogether. 

    So weaponize the debt ceiling.

    OK.

  2. 44 minutes ago, Lobo said:

    ACC is shopping the Pinnacle tower.  UT School of Social Work has been trying to engage City of Austin for two years on a broader program for homeless services.  Council keeps fucking it up.  I've worked on both, though in a limited scope.  Remind me what the point of providing you with exhaustive research is?  You seem about as integral to this issue as a meter maid.  

    How many social workers does the city have? How many free clinics does the city have? How many addiction specialists does the city have? How many beds does the city have? How many mental health care professionals does the city have?

    In other words, how many resources does Austin really have to help homeless people living within the city?

  3. 15 minutes ago, Lobo said:

    If only, District 8 had a giant building being shopped around right now by ACC through a well-known city-approved broker.  If only it was near several routes, near a half-dozen clinics.  If only Council could get a friendly strike-price on that with their partner-in-crime ACC.  That thing with a proper CapEx could hold...what?  Probably 400-500 beds?  And there's enough land to put up trailers or portable buildings in front of it from which to deploy more assets like mental health and addiction services.  

    And oh yeah, here's another fun fact for you Council cock-garglers...if only Austin had a tremendous asset in terms of Social Workers.  People that worked in the mental health, family services, and addiction counseling.  If only we had a world class, top ranked university/graduate program that excelled in this space.  And the City could engage, in a very widespread manner, this particular institution to care for this population that we're discussing here.  Now they've worked together in very small, one-off clinics, project by project, case by case.  But what if these two mammoth groups were to work together to actually accomplish what the City Council thinks it's doing right now but failing miserably at?  If only, there was a place nearby with hundreds of highly trained specialists waiting to help the world?  If only...

    You didn't provide any facts.

  4. 2 minutes ago, satyanash said:

    Reddit is cracking down on their streaming subreddits. May not be around for much longer.

    If so, just go straight to the source. Streaming live sporting events is pretty easy. I had to do it for the British Open because of the Directv/Nexstar fight.

  5. 2 hours ago, Goo Punch said:

    history will not look kindly upon the republican party of this era. they are a stain on American history, and Trump's election/presidency is one of (if not THE) low points of America in my lifetime. the OP is 100% right when he says that it simply does not matter how racist, bigoted, xenophobic, or misogynistic Trump is, republicans will still support him, or at best try and justify/excuse him. he's a vile, disgusting human being, and the continued support of him by republicans has frankly shocked me, and has no doubt divided this country in a more seriously combative and contentious way than i've ever seen. not a single day goes by where i'm not completely ashamed and embarrassed to be represented by such a human piece of trash, and to know that our democratic process resulted in this human paraquat actually becoming our president. 

    As much as I am tempted to say the Donald Trump presidency represents the low point of America during my lifetime, I was born during Nixon and Vietnam.

    I can say with confidence, however, that Donald Trump will be regarded by historians as the worst president we've ever had.

  6. 1 hour ago, Red Five said:

    Right but don't say things like "we need to defeat Trump because he only cares about the rich!". Yeah say that about Romney. Say "he ran as a way to make money and accidentally got elected by the Russians. He's a fraud."

    Don't say that, either.

    Call him a racist and a white supremacist over and over and over from now until the election. 

  7. 8 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

    yeah, uh, i think i would rather mueller do the talking.  if dems spend most of their time repeating 5 sentences over and over before they get a question out just to hear "yes, that is accurate", that's not a good thing.

    if america is going to latch onto something memorable, it'll come out of the mouth of the guy getting questioned, not the other way around.

    Sadly, I think tomorrow might be the coda until the election.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/07/mueller-testimony-reactions/593827/

  8. 4 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

    jail for those who need to get sober.  build out programs for mental health transients is the most important and hardest task.  how do you compel participation?  where do you get the workers?  where do you house them?  it's an effort that needs to be addressed as a priority by different agencies working together.  would probably need to be funded on a state or national level.  we really do need something more than we have now but not quite the institution-level horror from the 18th - early 20th centuries.

    The trick is convincing taxpayers that providing the homeless with adequate housing and healthcare should be a priority.

    Many of them would rather pay for jail.

  9. 1 minute ago, gsoda3 said:

    and those are valid issues this or any other solution needs to address, but that's not what bozo was asking.  

    So what do we do with Austin's homeless population during the time it takes to pass laws and build facilities?

  10. 2 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

    i haven't kept up with this thread for the past few weeks and have only read the last page, but is it your contention that's not a realistic solution because it's unbuilt?  if so i can see your point in how it will take a while before the effect takes place and we need a better solution for the now, but we also shouldn't dismiss it simply b/c it will take time and money to make it a reality.  

    as for your other question of what it looks like, that was addressed by several other posters, including myself, weeks ago.  

    You also need political will. Rounding people up for forced removal isn't an easy sell. That's one of the main reasons why it hasn't been done.

    Also, the people in east Travis County don't want facilities like this in their backyard, either.

  11. 6 hours ago, Jack Straw said:

    that should have happened a long time ago.  an illegitimate election with Trump staying on isn’t going to be the thing that makes that finally happen.  

    i’d put the chances of either Trump winning via suppression, foreign interference and other election rigging and cheating, or him losing and staying on anyway, at 90%+. either way, no one will  do anything about it.  

    Why should Donald Trump have been removed by force already?

  12. 13 minutes ago, TKthunder2 said:

    No there’s isn’t, isn’t an argument.  And are you saying that a facility located within 3 miles from the Airport doesn’t have transportation? Even if I concede that point, a shuttle service to downtown and back would cost far less than the proposed housing the city council came up with,

    I’m not opposed to housing homeless in the middle of Austin, I’m opposed to housing drug addicts and mentally unstable people around our community and enabling their current lifestyle.  For those that are neither I’d happily support a halfway house situation in busy population centers providing certain requirements are met including drug testing and proof of employment or proof of seeking employment (like most halfway houses have in place).  The goal is to help these people end their homelessness and not to enable their current lifestyle.

    Except for the ones who already live there, right? Because your neighborhood is probably crawling with drug addicts and mentally unstable people. They just have money.

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