Ive been to LA about a dozen times this year. I think I figured out the cause of the homeless epidemic; the homeless are generally a bunch of foul smelling heroin junkies.

Downtown LA is a very special place. It is one of the very few places in the Western world where one will witness junkies openly buying and shooting heroin, in public, in the middle of the day. Nobody even pays attention (tolerance). Pershing Square is essentially an open air drug market. Used needles are everywhere one looks. After 8 pm the area transforms into an open air sewer/refugee encampment. In the morning the police and private security guards run them off so normal business operations are not overly disrupted. The cycle continues. This is the end game of capitalism: Security gates to keep the junkies out.

Ive also been to Montana about a dozen time this year. Its different. Wonder why?