Hello ladies, hello gentlemen, this is the Victor Davis Hanson show.

I'm Jack Fowler.

The host, the Star namesake Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and E. Lee Anderson senior fellow at the

Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Moshevuski distinguished fellow in history at

Hillsdale College. Victor has a website, the blade of Perseus is its name, its web address is

Victor Hansen.com. Folks, you should be visiting there frequently and I'll tell you why towards the end of this particular

episode we are recording on Saturday April 13th and this particular

episode will be up on Thursday, what is it, the 18th of April.

Plenty to talk about, including Victor, the recent news about the 24 billion dollars that

California has spent on homelessness in the last five years and nobody knows

what the F this money has done where it's gone to and

while it's being spent of course homelessness is on the increase in you in the

once golden state we have have that. We have some generals involving

themselves in Supreme Court matters. NPR and some other media stories. We'll get Victor's views on all these things right after these

important messages. We are back with the Victor Davis Hanson show.

Victor, California cannot account for 24 billion dollars that it's spent on the

homeless since 2019 and it can't assess the impact of that massive spending. I've

saw some numbers that since 2019, despite all that money out of your

pockets and the pockets of others who have probably led the state now, homeless numbers

are risen 20 percent approaching 20,000 in in your state.

Well I think we know where it went. Yeah, go ahead. It went to three groups, the homeless themselves, and that meant did they get the money and

save it up and then after a while put a down payment on rent no it went for drugs or whatever their

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