L.A. fails to spend one-fourth of federal money for homes

The L.A. Times reports:

In a region with the largest homeless population in the nation, the city of Los Angeles is not promptly using more than a quarter of the federal money intended to house ailing homeless people, according to a city report.

By contrast, San Francisco leaves just 12% unused and Berkeley uses all of it, according to officials in those cities.

"That makes no sense," said Los Angeles City Councilman Greig Smith. "Here is a city where everyone is complaining we have 48,000 homeless people, and we've got beds going unused."

For those who think the government can run national health care,think again.