San Bruno Life

It's truly horrible what we are doing to people on the street in Portland and throughout the West Coast. These are modern day killing fields, with the only answer to the constant death and despair is to pump homeless addicts full of Narcan so they can survive another day, only to overdose again days or weeks later. Even lefty @AnaKasparian of the Young Turks has said this about LA's homeless crisis and the non-profits that profit off of it: “We spent $13 billion in Los Angeles alone last year to combat homelessness. You wanna know where that money went? That money went to these trash nonprofits who have a bunch of executives making half a million a year. You're working for a nonprofit dealing with homelessness. That's my money. That's my parents' money. Okay, that is the hardworking people of California paying incredibly high taxes that go to what? So, yeah. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of it and honestly just experiencing what I've seen on the ground in California has made me question a lot about left wing ideology.” Sound familiar, Portland? Portland has one of the largest bureaucratic non-profit cartels in the United States. They take taxpayer money to mostly pay themselves outrageous sums of money. Blanchet House in Portland's Old Town is a good example. In their last 990 (2023), the program was given $8 million, which was more than double the previous year (around $3.8 million). It reported assets of nearly $30 million. Yesterday, the ED, Scot Kerman, resigned after 6 years at the helm, with a slight wink and a nod to a possible run at the Multnomah County commission. Kerman's last reported 2023 salary was over $180k/year. Blanchet House's official stated message is: "Our mission is to alleviate suffering and offer hope for a better life by serving essential aid with dignity." What they really did was create a several square block of an open air drug market with the requisite suffering that abounds within that environment.