The video below of Philadelphia’s skid row is shocking and distressing. We have these horrible homeless crisis situations in all of our big cities, mostly due to bad – wrong-headed -policies, bad leaders, and wasteful expenditures. Watch these dozens of people camped out along ‘largest open-air drug market on the East Coast,’ as the New York Times calls it.
It was posted to YouTube by a user with the handle name ‘HoodTime,’ and was filmed last Wednesday at two spots underneath the ‘El’ – which is how locals refer to the Market-Frankford train line.
A spokesperson for the City of Philadelphia told DailyMail.com: “We did not produce that video and we cannot speak to its origin or veracity. As such, we are not able to comment on it.”
As the temperature plunged to a near-freezing 33 degrees, the group of unsheltered people filmed in the video is seen huddling around a fire that was started in a trash bin.
Instead of importing more poor, criminal, possibly disturbed people from foreign lands, we should be doing a better job with the homeless already here.
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Democrat led states and democrat led cities are failing and it’s because the leaders are incompetent and inept and will just get bailed out by Pelosi and her merry band of do nothing spend thrift socialists.
The destruction of these once beautiful cities is an atrocity. Just a few year’s ago Philadelphia was voted one of the most popular places to relocate to. It had all the amenities a person could ask for. Small city, low crime, historic buildings and history galore.
Uncle Joe can’t help them?
Are the printing presses still functional?
Helicopter some money down to the unity collective, the too big to fail banks have plenty.
No EBT cards are left?
You don’t need an address for an EBT card as it works at any grocery/pharmacy/bodega/check cashing/dollar store.
It is basically a mommygov debit card.
Liberals are always pointing to the Poor in Rural Mississippi, but I’ve never seen the kind of 3rd World Poor you see in Big Blue Cities in Rural America.