If you travel into homeless encampments like Los Angeles, you get sick to your stomach seeing the futility, misery, vacant stares, and sheer hopelessness of hundreds of thousands of Americans.

Latest reports put homeless Americans at 773,000 throughout our 50 states.  Los Angeles and San Francisco feature over 200,000 homeless.  Up in Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington, another 30,000 miserable souls.  In Denver, Colorado, no less than 10,000 American homeless and somewhere in the vicinity of 200,000 illegal migrant homeless.  Chicago features another 68,000, but tens of thousands more in illegal alien migrants.  New York City estimates 140,000 American homeless, and another 50,000 illegal migrants.

As you look at the top 30 cities in America, you see the morass of humanity living in the depths of depravity, parked cars, parked mobile homes, tents, tarps, sleeping on steam grates during the winter months, and dying of drug overdoses by the thousands.  How many of them are U.S. military veterans?  Answer: 32,000 homeless vets suffer from depression, P.T.S.D., armless bodies, legless bodies and so many other scars from Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars. 

"From 1968 to 2020, approximately 1,106,900 drug overdose deaths occurred in the USA. While a precise total for the entire period since 1970 is not available in the provided snippets, it's clear that the number is substantial and has risen sharply, with a large majority of deaths happening in recent decades. For example, the year 2022 saw a peak of around 110,900 overdose deaths alone."

From a personal standpoint, I have witnessed the homeless in over 20 cities in America.  Their lives suffer incredible misery, hopelessness and futility.  I've smelled their urine and feces on the sidewalks of LA and San Francisco. I've seen their rotting bodies from the drugs injected or inhaled or consumed.  I've seen them sleeping on cardboard boxes for mattresses. I've seen them digging through garbage cans and dumpsters for food. I've seen them injecting themselves. I've seen them sitting in a stupor from being high.

They face a certain kind of useless life that most Americans cannot comprehend.  They may have been beaten as children. They may have been raped as a teen.  They may have been kicked out of their homes by exasperated parents.  Most suffer from some kind of mental illness.

And yet, in the richest country in the world, their fate continues in misery while we spend trillions to rocket to the moon or Mars. They languish in emotional turmoil while we spend billions on enormous corruption in Congress whether it is U.S. AID, or fraudulent insider trading by our elected officials, or foreign aid into the trillions of dollars for other countries.

Does any of it make any sense?  How do our leaders "get away with it?"  How can California's governor pretend that he's going to be a presidential candidate when he's shown himself a miserable failure on multiple levels?  Does that mean that those in high power positions can't or won't solve immediate problems? 

"Now, at last, we have some answers for why homelessness has exploded even amid a tripling of public spending.  A groundbreaking study, "Infiltrated" – backed by more than 50 pages of documentation from the Capital Research Center in cooperation with Discovery Institute – pulls back the curtain on a vast system of corruption. It reveals how billions in taxpayer funds intended to lift people out of homelessness have instead bankrolled radical activism and anti-American political agendas, betraying both the taxpayers who fund it and the homeless they were meant to help." (Source: Michelle Steeb, FOX News.)

What began as a movement rooted in compassion has metastasized into what can only be described as a Homelessness Industrial Complex – a sprawling web of nonprofits, bureaucrats and activists feeding off the very crisis they claim to solve. 

"They've built an empire of corruption draped in "evidence-based" slogans that shield politics, protect paychecks and betray the vulnerable. The report lays it bare: these networks posture as defenders of America's homeless, yet in truth, they have become their greatest exploiters, dependent on failure to sustain power."

When you look at all the NGO's ripping off U.S. AID for trillions of dollars over the past 50 years, you cannot help but wonder if the basic tenets of humans in power positions is to lie, cheat, steal and defraud the rest of us.  We certainly saw that firsthand with Joe Biden's corrupt 50-year career in screwing the American taxpayer. 

The Supreme Court's Grants Pass v. Johnson case further exposed the rot. Over 700 nonprofits – collectively taking in $2.9 billion in government grants – filed briefs defending public encampments and opposing enforcement of anti-camping laws as "cruel and unusual punishment." 

"Their concern wasn't compassion, it was the preservation of their money pot. Private foundations joined the crusade. Major philanthropic giants – Ford, Robert Wood Johnson and Gates Foundations – poured billions into Housing First and "equity" initiatives to promote ideology under the guise of helping the homeless." (Steeb)

The outcome is measurable and devastating: billions spent, streets worse than ever, and a 77% increase in the death rate among the homeless, under the banner of "justice."

Steeb said, "For too long, the Homelessness Industrial Complex has thrived in darkness, remaining untouchable, unaccountable and unchallenged. But sunlight is finally piercing through."

At this point, I celebrate Kash Patel at the FBI, Pam Bondi as the Attorney General, and the dedicated whistleblowers and reporters unearthing the wrongs, and exposing the fraudsters.  

I personally hope that our FBI, Border Patrol, C.I.A. and I.C.E. officers bust up the gangs, the Antifa terrorists, the drug runners in those speed boats, and anyone trying to bring drugs by land. Let's toss them in jail for 20,30,40 or more years so they don't dare bring their death sentences onto our citizens, our children, our lives.  

We owe it to ourselves as a reasonable society. We owe it to our children to make sure drugs are NOT AVAILABLE.  Let's spend our tax dollars on recreation centers, sports courts, teachers, and organizations that support our youth, our veterans, all our lives.

In the end, who needs to go to the moon?  Or Mars? What's the point? 

Let's spend money on healing America's less fortunate. Does that make sense? Let's hope so….

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