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By Rita Robinson on March 02nd, 2014
Sam Palmer beside a cargo bin converted to an apartment, which city officials said violated regulations.
One of Laguna Beachs rare private refuges for local homeless people to find a permanent place to live was recently ordered closed by city officials, displacing five people back to the street and confounding homeless advocates.
The five residents living at the row of rooms in a mobile trailer in Laguna Canyon once used as a construction-site office had to leave, according to city code inspectors, because the area was not zoned for residential use. Among them was Cliff Mabra, a longtime local street musician who had to vacate the room he was living in for three years at Palmer Masonry and died last December.
Business operator Sam Palmer had been renting rooms near a cluster of commercial businesses to disadvantaged people for about six years. He believes a former tenant filed a complaint with the citys code enforcement department, which informed Palmer he was in violation of commercial zoning regulations that prohibit residential use.
Palmer rented out five 100-square-foot rooms, subdividing the former construction office trailer. It included a communal kitchen, bathroom and laundry room. Code inspector Fred Fix said the rooms were closed last October.
Land owner Franz Visoul of Idaho agreed with Palmer not to fight City Hall and to close the rooms. The most obvious code violation, Fix said, was a portable metal cargo bin, a sixth room that had been converted to a housing unit with a window, French doors, insulation to protect against the suns heat and electricity.
When the fire department came through, said Palmer, they said, Absolutely nobody living in the bins.
The loss disappointed Jim Keegan, a local homeless advocate, who offered Palmer legal assistance if he wanted to keep the rooms open. Palmer declined.
The city makes things more difficult for themselves, said Keegan, who initiated a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union against the city in 2009 that alleged the citys ban on overnight sleeping on public land was unconstitutional. The resulting settlement led the city to provide an alternative; hence the establishment of the Alternative Sleeping Location on Laguna Canyon Road. Some people have been able to get a van or something to sleep in at night instead of being on the beach but the police harass them anyway, said Keegan. Its kind of self-defeating.
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American political culture always seems to be celebrating the anniversary of something, be it JFKs assassination (we just passed the 50th anniversary of that sad event) or the signing of some (mostly bad) legislation. The latest political activity to be enshrined with an anniversary is the so-called stimulus, the $800 billion monstrosity passed five years ago ostensibly to put America back to work.
Not surprisingly, the New York Times has editorialized that any criticism of the spending bill at least any criticism which says too much was spent is a Republican myth and falsehood. Not only was the Stimulus a legitimate piece of legislation, sniffed the NYT, but it also:
prevented a second recession that could have turned into a depression. It created or saved an average of 1.6 million jobs a year for four years. (Where are the jobs, Mr. Boehner.) It raised the nations economic output by 2 to 3 percent from 2009 to 2011. It prevented a significant increase in poverty without it, 5.3 million additional people would have become poor in 2010.
Like all examples of the Broken Window Fallacy, the spirited defense of this spending bill is based upon accounting methods that count the people hired through stimulus spending as new jobs but fail to note how others might have lost their own means of employment. Now, this was a bill that, among other things, had workers rolling sod into the grass median of I-68 (which is near my home) in an area where runoff collected from tons of salt thrown onto roads by state highway crews (our area receives a lot of snowfall). Not surprisingly, within a year, all of the new grass was dead.
I liken the stimulus to throwing a bit of lighter fluid onto a pile of soaking wet wood. The flames pop up for a few seconds, but then disappear as the effects from the fluid go away. (No, repeated douses of stimulus fluid do not ultimately gain traction and then lead to a miraculous economic recovery.)
If Beltway political culture permits any criticism of the Holy Stimulus, it is this: the stimulus wasnt big enough. Intones the NYT: The stimulus could have done more good had it been bigger and more carefully constructed.
The rest of the editorial is a compilation of near-plagiarism from Paul Krugmans columns and blog posts, and it reflects how Keynesian anti-wogic works. The logical narrative goes as follows:
Should one question the Keynesian premises of this awful syllogism, the standard answer is: America had full employment during World War II. (Robert Higgs has thoroughly debunked this enduring myth.) But, then, so did Germany and the U.S.S.R., according to Keynesian standards, but no one envies what people there experienced!
The problem that occurs when one wishes to interpret the results of the Stimulus is not due to bad politics. To put it another way, Stimulus spending always will confer political benefits, given that the money is transferred from taxpayers to preferred political constituents. Those footing the bill include both present and future taxpayers, since they will have to pay later for the public debt incurred to pay for present stimulus spending.
I make this point because the stimulus always has been presented as a government action that improved general or overall economic conditions, as opposed to being a political wealth-transfer scheme. The NYT editorial drips with what only can be a religious faith in the whole system, as though politicians seeking votes are going to carefully construct a process that is aimed at making certain political constituencies better off but at the expense of other constituencies.
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