Country Discussion: USA

US of

  • Yay

    Votes: 19 29.7%

  • Nay

    Votes: 31 48.4%

  • The British are just jealous and overly cynical

    Votes: 14 21.9%
  • Total voters
    64
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New Orleans (New Orleans), Detroit City (Detroit City) Dallas, uh (Dallas), Pittsburgh, PA, (Pittsburgh, PA) New York City (New York City), Kansas City (Kansas City) Atlanta, woo (Atlanta), Chicago and L.A.
 

JimmyJeffers said:
Believe NYC has the largest homeless population in the US. Was surprised as well when I read this as is far less obvious in the downtown areas than in other US cities.
Someone told me this was down to aggressive policing, with people moved to less desirable areas.
Maybe one of the US posters on here can confirm this?
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LA has the largest homeless population in the US—also a much, much higher unsheltered rate than New York City. Partially due to climate of course
 
wm02 said:
LA has the largest homeless population in the US—also a much, much higher unsheltered rate than New York City. Partially due to climate of course
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See that’s what I thought but on checking stats (which I know are unreliable in this) NYC was top.

Never seen anything like downtown LA though. Was 20 years ago like but was basically a slum.
 

SerenityNigh said:
every time I travel West I'm amazed at the number of homeless people I see / because the weather is so much better / Godspeed they may find the help they need, it's not coming from most forms of federal/state/local government
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Do you get a vote if you don't have a home in the US?
 
Rita_Poon said:
Do you get a vote if you don't have a home in the US?
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very good question, I suspect it is hard to register if you don't currently have an address, but maybe easier than I imagine; most homeless I suspect were previously registered and can still vote, but of course transportation is the major issue, and it might be impossible to get a mail in ballot without an address

all of that on top of the question, are the homeless interested in voting at all? there are a large number of homeless in the US who are "between homes" so to speak who probably want to vote, but so many of the homeless you see on the street have other issues that prevent them from engaging in the normative political process
 
SerenityNigh said:
very good question, I suspect it is hard to register if you don't currently have an address, but maybe easier than I imagine; most homeless I suspect were previously registered and can still vote, but of course transportation is the major issue, and it might be impossible to get a mail in ballot without an address

all of that on top of the question, are the homeless interested in voting at all? there are a large number of homeless in the US who are "between homes" so to speak who probably want to vote, but so many of the homeless you see on the street have other issues that prevent them from engaging in the normative political process
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I wonder how that came about and if it was then allowed to get worse...
 

SerenityNigh said:
Mental illness, drug addiction, veterans with PTSD, but there are surely people here who know a lot more about this than me
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In the vaguest of ways, I was angling at the 'no one left behind' mantras we've seen from shysters on both sides of the water. At least here I can speak for it being a huge crock of crap, those responsible inflicted generations of harm upon the poorest and most vulnerable, and I wonder if that has been the case in the US. Via a not long enough telescope the former commander and chief appears to have been targeting Mexico and anyone else vaguely Latino, here the demonized include all Africans, Syrians, Afghans, and Eastern Europeans. (Not forgetting the 39 Vietnamese in the lorry). Litanies of harm done to appease an aging and entitled voter base so bitter and twisted there is no 'harm enough' to be done.
 
Rita_Poon said:
In the vaguest of ways, I was angling at the 'no one left behind' mantras we've seen from shysters on both sides of the water. At least here I can speak for it being a huge crock of crap, those responsible inflicted generations of harm upon the poorest and most vulnerable, and I wonder if that has been the case in the US. Via a not long enough telescope the former commander and chief appears to have been targeting Mexico and anyone else vaguely Latino, here the demonized include all Africans, Syrians, Afghans, and Eastern Europeans. (Not forgetting the 39 Vietnamese in the lorry). Litanies of harm done to appease an aging and entitled voter base so bitter and twisted there is no 'harm enough' to be done.
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Yeah I get that but again there are smarter people than me who can comment on that. But to your point, the Left has ideas but little competency and the Right has little compassion. But America has long been a Land of Opportunity for those who can use their own bootstraps sufficiently, and we’ve recently allowed black men to use their own bootstraps and not just service the boots of wealthy white men so we’re making real progress towards something slightly different than before!
 
FCBarça said:
If you’re a citizen, you can vote (Unless you‘re incarcerated, mentally unfit etc). Whether it changes anything is a different question
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That gets complicated. If you can't register to an address and prove it, you can't vote. How difficult that becomes varies by state/municipality. In general, figure that someone without a permanent address has no vote, once their present identification documents expire.
 

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