{"id":86759,"date":"2024-01-05T07:48:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T13:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86759"},"modified":"2024-01-05T07:48:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T13:48:58","slug":"something-in-the-water-does-not-compute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86759","title":{"rendered":"Something In The Water Does Not Compute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The top story in Twin Cities lefty alt-media, and media in general, was the &#8220;eviction&#8221; of &#8220;Camp Nenookasi&#8221;, a homeless camp in South Minneapolis:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/TwinCityReports\/status\/1742967198153383967\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not really commenting so much about that&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;as about this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMaryFranson\/status\/1743116355212018077\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/minnesotarightnow.com\/2022\/01\/29\/heres-how-homelessness-in-minnesota-compares-to-the-rest-of-the-country\/#:~:text=Homelessness%20rates%20also%20vary%20considerably%20by%20state.%20In,people%2C%20the%2015th%20highest%20homeless%20rate%20among%20states.\">According to homeless advocates<\/a> &#8211; whose estimates can be expected to skew toward the, er, <em>generous<\/em> &#8211; there are about 8,000 homeless in Minnesota.  We&#8217;re also told that the number is rising, which doesn&#8217;t seem to jibe with the claims for &#8220;Bidenomics&#8221;, but let&#8217;s come back to that later.  Let&#8217;s be even more generous, and make the math nice &#8216;n easy, and call it 10,000 &#8220;unhoused&#8221; people in MInnesota at any given time.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That means Minnesota is currently spending $100,000\/year (the budget is biennial) <em>per homeless person<\/em> (and that&#8217;s closer to $120K if we take the homeless advocates at their own word). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s enough to rent every single homeless person a place at the Calhoun Beach Club, feed them, and pay for the social workers to make sure everything&#8217;s hunky dory.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or, y&#8217;know, flush down a bureaucratic rathole.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top story in Twin Cities lefty alt-media, and media in general, was the &#8220;eviction&#8221; of &#8220;Camp Nenookasi&#8221;, a homeless camp in South Minneapolis: Not really commenting so much about that&#8230; &#8230;as about this: According to homeless advocates &#8211; whose estimates can be expected to skew toward the, er, generous &#8211; there are about 8,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86760,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86759\/revisions\/86760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}