The Shocking Hypocrisy and Callousness of the Left’s Homeless Outrage

Marta gets up at 3:45 a.m. each morning to ride a combination of buses and metros to get to her job in the cafeteria in the building where I work. Breakfast begins at 6:45 and she’s always there, ready to ring up my coffee and oatmeal. She’s the face of the working poor in Washington, D.C., who must risk their safety to walk to work through homeless encampments where angry, raving homeless men accost and shout at them.

In Washington, the received wisdom of the entitled class is that Donald Trump is being cruel and heartless by deploying the National Guard to deal with the crisis of crime and homelessness that plagues the city. How can he so casually relocate these homeless encampments? They shriek at the thought of National Guardsmen taking down tents and ushering homeless people from the sidewalks and parks.

Is it kinder to allow Americans to live in squalor on the street? Is it kinder to allow Marta and the countless other working poor to take their chances as they brave the lawless squalor that litters our streets? These folks struggle to keep what little is left over after the city taxes their homes, their paychecks, their cars, their food, their electricity, and their phones. They cannot afford to also pay the exorbitant parking fees common in the nation’s capital city.

There are approximately 5,000 homeless people living on the street or in temporary shelters in Washington, D.C. The city spends over $1 billion dollars (just in local funding) supposedly “fighting” their homelessness. Of that sum, approximately half goes to direct aid for the homeless.