By now all have heard the news of the occupation of DC by Donny and his brand of crime fighting…..sad though that crime figures are down but that does not get in the way of this authoritarian d/bag to flex his sagging muscle.
More and more National Guard are being introduced to the streets of DC almost daily…..like his lame ass military parade is a huge waste of money and resources.
Last week, when Trump federalized Washington, DC’s police force and deployed the National Guard to occupy its streets, one of his main orders was to “end vagrancy” by destroying homeless encampments and arresting and forcibly relocating the people taking shelter there.
But according to an investigation published on Wednesday by Hanna Homestead of the National Priorities Project, in collaboration with The Intercept, deploying the National Guard and “getting rid of the slums” is costing far more than it would cost to simply provide housing to every homeless person in the city.
Governors from six US states have sent troops to Washington to help Trump’s effort, swelling the ranks to nearly 2,100 who will soon be on patrol.
According to previous reporting, National Guard deployments cost the US government $530 per guard member each day. Using that figure, Homestead estimated that it would cost just over $1.1 million.
She added that “the number of troops will likely continue to grow. And with no deadline for the DC deployment, those costs could add up for months or even years.”
According to the most recent data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), there are about 5,600 people experiencing either sheltered and unsheltered homelessness in DC on a given night. Operating an affordable housing unit for each one of them, the data shows, costs about $45.44 per person, per day, on average in DC.
Providing affordable housing to every homeless person in DC would cost an estimated $255,166, which is 4.3 times less than the cost of Trump’s military deployment.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-national-guard-housing-cost
At every turn the GOP and its choice of power brokers prove they are no more a fiscal conservative than I am dishwasher at Friday’s.
More of Donny’s wasting money that so many accuse the Dems of doing….this what we get when personality means more than policies.
Now the story is that Donny and his band of idiots are setting sights on Chicago for the next location to piss away more cash….Baltimore is also in the sights.
The GOP continues to prove what a quivering mass of waste and dysfunction.
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
It’s never about the cost, just about the authoritarian statement it makes. Designed to instil fear, and exercise control on sections of the population. He says he is doing the same to Chicago and New York next, sounds to me like a military coup and martial law is being planned.
Best wishes, Pete.
I’ve heard from several sources now that this is indeed a trial run before trying to use crime and gangs as a way of justifying declaring nation wide martial law in any community that doesn’t fully support Turnip’s agenda. I used to think those were just paranoid conspiracy theories. But now?
GF That seems more and more likely…..pathetic from a pathetic man. chuq
NYC is not a pushover town. Lotta tough people there, and they know how to fight back. It could be interesting. Im envisioning a “West Side Story” meeting between NYC street gangs and Trump’s Troops…
These ‘troops’ are an occupying force…..chuq
Trump may come across as a wealthy person (mostly due to his daddy), but his history has shown he has very little smarts on how to use money in a sensible way. This, along with multiple other times in his (short-term) presidency, is just another example of that financial ignorance. The problem is … WE are the ones paying for it!
Yes for someone who supposedly went to the Wharton School of Business he is a clueless lump….and being a stable genius is just damn laughable…and unfortunately we may be paying for this mistakes for a very long time. chuq
I seriously wonder how many wealthy-but-numb folks have gone to prestigious schools on Daddy’s Money, and graduated with honors. Daddy, after all, is paying the bills, and what school cannot appreciate the boo$t$…Money and brains do not necessarily share space in the same body…
Exactly! I mean even with a small amount of economic knowledge would tell a person that this guy is full of crap and a dumbass. chuq