by Michael
As soon as upon a time, Ronald Reagan described America as a “shining metropolis on a hill” that the remainder of the world may look to for inspiration. Properly, these days are gone. So what’s our pitch now? Come go to America the place you may watch individuals purchase fentanyl-laced medicine in our open air drug markets and the place addicts are free to defecate on the sidewalks each time they need? And don’t overlook concerning the rats. We now have armies of these, and I’m not simply speaking concerning the politicians. In the course of the twentieth century, most of our main cities had been secure, clear and filled with laborious working industrious individuals. However now lots of our main city areas have turn out to be crime-infested hellholes which might be completely teeming with predators.
The one instance that we appear to be setting for everybody else on the planet is a foul one.
Simply take a look at what has occurred to San Francisco. It is without doubt one of the wealthiest cities in your entire world, and at one time it was extremely picturesque.
However now crime, medicine and arranged looting have made many areas of the town virtually unlivable.
This week, Cotopaxi CEO Davis Smith created fairly a stir when he defined why his firm is closing a retailer in San Francisco that it opened simply final yr…
We opened a retail retailer a yr in the past on Hayes Avenue, the charming purchasing district simply blocks away from the well-known Full Home residence. Our first week there, our home windows had been smashed and hundreds of {dollars} of product was stolen. We changed the window, and it instantly occurred once more (4 occasions). We changed with window with plywood as we waited for a month+ to get a steel safety gate put in (demand for these gates is creating big delays). As of at this time, we’re closing the shop attributable to rampant organized theft and lack of security for our crew. Our retailer is hit by organized theft rings a number of occasions per week. They overtly enter the shop and seize hundreds of {dollars} of product and stroll out. We began holding the door locked and opening it just for prospects, however even then, they’ll have a girl go to the door, after which hiding people rush into the shop as quickly because the door opens. Our crew is terrified. They really feel unsafe. Safety guards don’t assist as a result of these theft rings know that safety guards received’t/can’t cease them. It’s not possible for a retail retailer to function in these circumstances, particularly when cities refuse to take any motion (regardless of us paying taxes effectively above another state we function in). The town not too long ago introduced a discount of police presence on this neighborhood, regardless of mass-scale crime.
It makes me unhappy that I’m now avoiding San Francisco, a metropolis I used to like. Final time my spouse and I went in 2020, a drugged up individual ran as much as my spouse’s face and began screaming a number of the most obscene issues I’ve ever heard. She was terrified. Throughout a earlier journey, my rental automobile was damaged into and every part was stolen out of our trunk. When calling the police to report the theft, they tell us this occurs a whole bunch of occasions per day within the metropolis and mentioned it was our personal fault for parking on the street. I grew up in Latin America and spent a lot of my grownup life there, and I by no means felt this unsafe there. One thing has to alter in San Francisco.
How on this planet may we probably permit issues to get this dangerous?
The remainder of the world is actually laughing at us.
Sadly, different main cities alongside the west coast are additionally quickly degenerating proper in entrance of our eyes. The next comes from a Each day Mail article concerning the open air drug commerce that is occurring in Portland…
From his porch, close to Dawson park, he can watch vehicles pull up, purchase medicine and transfer on in seconds. All in entrance of a Baptist church.
Nearly on cue, half a block away a black sedan with tinted home windows stopped in the course of the road. A mini-skirted lady leaned by way of the window earlier than strolling slowly to a parked automobile to gather one thing.
In the meantime, a gaggle of males in ragged garments clustered collectively, sharing round a small wrap of meth.
No one desires to boost a household in such an surroundings.
And that’s the reason there was a mass exodus from Portland lately.
Sadly, our medicine issues are usually not going away any time quickly.
Because of a extreme lack of border safety, extra medicine come pouring into this nation each day. In accordance to the official web site of the State of Texas, in simply 12 months legislation enforcement authorities had been capable of seize sufficient fentanyl “to kill each man, lady, and baby in the USA”…
Final yr, virtually 1,700 Texans misplaced their lives due to fentanyl. Fentanyl is the primary reason behind loss of life in Individuals between the ages of 18 and 45. From February 2021 to February 2022, greater than 75,000 Individuals died on account of fentanyl-related overdoses. Previously yr, Texas legislation enforcement alone has seized over 342 million deadly doses of fentanyl—sufficient to kill each man, lady, and baby in the USA.
This is only one state!
And if Texas legislation enforcement was capable of intercept this a lot fentanyl, how rather more fentanyl received by way of that they weren’t capable of detect?
At this level, our nation is actually swimming in fentanyl-laced medicine. In Pennsylvania, one voter not too long ago instructed Dr. Oz that it’s now “simpler to get fentanyl than it’s to get child components in Philadelphia”…
“It’s simpler to get fentanyl than it’s to get child components in Philadelphia,” a voter instructed surging U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Oz this week.
That has received to be an exaggeration.
Proper?
As our main cities descend into squalor, rat populations are completely exploding.
This has turn out to be a significant situation in New York Metropolis, and the brand new mayor is promising to take daring motion towards the “sea of rodents” which might be seemingly in all places nowadays…
As ‘nature heals’ following greater than two years of lockdowns, New York Metropolis is tackling a “sea of rodents”that has taken over the streets.
In a Monday press convention, Mayor Eric Adams and crew introduced that the town could be limiting the window for residents to place their trash on the curb from 4pm to 8pm.If residents have sealed containers, they’ll place them outdoors no sooner than 6 pm.
Hopefully one thing will be finished, as a result of certainly one of our most essential cities shouldn’t be drowning in rats.
Late final yr, it was being estimated that the rat inhabitants within the Huge Apple had risen to roughly two million…
This may come as no shock to anybody however New York Metropolis has a rat downside.
Two million rats name the town residence, thriving on the streets, in sewers, in each deserted and un-abandoned buildings, within the parks, within the subways, in shoe shops and in eating places.
What a nightmare.
After all we’ve got loads of different points of interest when you aren’t into crime, medicine or rats.
For instance, we’ve got a number of the most weird ailments on your entire globe. In truth, there’s a very alarming outbreak of flesh consuming micro organism down in Florida proper now…
As of final Friday, the Sunshine State reported 65 infections of Vibrio vulnificus this yr, whereas there have been solely 37 instances reported previous to the storm that made landfall on Sept. 28, in response to Florida Division of Well being knowledge.
Lee County, residence to the Ian-ravaged communities of Fort Myers and Sanibel Island, accounts for many new instances of Vibrio vulnificus, which eats away on the flesh in open wounds.
Doesn’t that sound enjoyable?
Evidently, I’m being facetious.
As soon as upon a time, we had been probably the most blessed nation on the face of the Earth.
However now it looks as if virtually every part is cursed.
If we keep on the trail that we’re at the moment on, the way forward for our nation seems to be extremely bleak.
So we desperately want to alter course whereas there may be nonetheless time to take action.
