The Jimmy Dore Show Guess Where The Billions Spent On Fixing Homelessness Are Going?!? w/ Keith McHenry
May 28, 2025
In this engaging discussion, Keith McHenry, co-founder of Food Not Bombs and a fervent advocate for social justice, dives into the rampant corruption plaguing homelessness funding in L.A. He highlights misuse of taxpayer money and calls out complacency in bureaucratic structures. Alongside comedian Kurt Metzger, they also critique the influence of military spending on social issues like hunger. The conversation pushes for grassroots mobilization, emphasizing community-driven solutions to challenge systemic disparities in addressing homelessness.
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Homelessness Industrial Complex Scam
- The homeless crisis is perpetuated by a corrupt 'homeless industrial complex' that profits from ongoing dysfunction.
- Money intended to help homeless people is funneled into inflated salaries and friend networks, not actual solutions.
Conflicts in Santa Cruz Homeless Aid
- Keith McHenry shared how local officials in Santa Cruz have conflicts of interest in homeless aid organizations.
- He explained Food Not Bombs feeds homeless daily without media coverage, contrasting with the sanitized homeless industrial complex.
Need for Unified Working-Class Revolt
- A true fix for homelessness requires mass political organizing and revolution against entrenched systems.
- Divisions among working-class people are deliberately stoked to prevent unified resistance to the oligarchy.
