38 Replies to “O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas”

  1. From the comments, “Truly a socialist paradise”. This sums it up well. City Supervisor says more socialism (more beds for homeless) will fix it. Kind of like more socialism fixed Soviet Russia’s economic woes.

  4. yep.
    allll part of the ‘unintended consequences’ of caving in to the prison guard union lobbying for ‘3 strikes’ and ‘war on cannabis’ resulting in 100s of billions (trillion[s]?) spent on jamming them full, full, full. (it’s called zhob security)
    ergo, no money left for egad, street sweepers?

  5. You need street sweepers anyway. Not because of drug addicts leaving needles and homeless people shitting on the pavement. And blaming one union out of the many that California’s state and municipal governments screwed their taxpaying electorate to bribe is using a microscope lens to take a single picture representing a tapestry.

  6. “All of this is happening because we aren’t addressing the root cause, which is we need more temporary beds for street homelessness.”
    So they can have a place to sack out between poops and fixes. Yeah, that’ll solve the problem. You go with that.

  8. The governing authorities need to switch their focus from so called harm reduction to life sustaining.
    Instead of giving needles to drug abusers; give needles to Type 1 Diabetics who will use them responsibly and actually attempt to preserve their own lives.
    T1D patients are also known to practice good disposal by using sharps containers…
    San Francisco a city of approx. 871,000 and not a sharps container in sight!
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group ‘True North’

  9. It’s not like this is a new problem. I was last in San Francisco over 10 years ago and many parts of the city smelled like an open urinal even then. If you’re not going to stop people from pi$$ing in the streets you’re not too far away from them sh!ting and dropping their used drug paraphernalia. There are already sections of the city where people walk around naked. What the hell do you expect.

  10. Why do all the cities that spend fortunes in taxpayers cash to eliminate homelessness end up with more homelessness?

  11. When you give the same equal vote to every part of society regardless of their stake in the game, this is where it always ends up. A person of no standing, with no assets, and making no contribution to society, should not be allowed to vote. Full on democracy is a recipe for disaster. Always will be. A Republic, with earned vote, is the only way.

  16. Find me ONE American city run by leftist politicians and appointees that ISN’T a sh*thole … and small, RICH, WHITE, leftist suburbs (like those in Marin County and Silicon Valley) don’t count … cause they’re WHITE, liberal, and RICH. Filthy RICH. And ethnically monolithic.

  17. “Why do all the cities that spend fortunes in taxpayers cash to eliminate homelessness end up with more homelessness?”
    I believe it is simply a matter of ‘build it and they will come’.
    The more that these naive do-gooders in government and the poverty industry do to try and make the ‘homeless lifestyle’ even more stress free and comfy, the more lazy, aimless, probably addicted free-loaders will show up. Yet again the working slob gets slaughtered.
    The majority of these people spend a majority of their time in pursuit of drugs, alcohol or cigarettes. That’s A LOT OF MONEY, folks, and where do you think these entrepreneurial bums get it, day after day, year after year? From you! That’s where! Be it by begging, cashing cheques supplied by the taxpayer or by breaking into your home and car, it all comes right from our pockets. This issue is at the core of most urban property crime in NA.
    I firmly believe that ‘homelessness’ is UNRESOLVABLE without becoming very Politically Incorrect and kicking some young ass. With that in mind, San Francisco in particular seems doomed.

  18. DES of Vancouver has looked like your experience for at least thirty years, gotten worse since the government closed the mental institutions in the early 80’s.
    In Vancouver we have these lovely “insite” places,which help prevent nature from taking it’s course. I haven’t walked through the area in several years,but last time I did,early 2000’s, there weren’t as many needles as the San Francisco photos showed,maybe I just didn’t see them as I never ventured into any alleys.
    The presiding mentality of the shitforbrains set that run most of our major cities is: we must save our precious junkies at all cost.
    To what end,I have NO idea,and neither do they.

  20. Haight Ashbury in the 60’s was cute and charming … with “homeless” white kids from suburbia moving into the adjacent Golden Gate Park. But these current “homeless” are NOT your Grandmother’s “homeless”. These homeless are seriously messed up … and won’t eventually become lawyers and housewives like those Dead Head vagabonds from the 60’s and 70’s. Trouble is … the San Francisco Stuporvisors still have “romantic” notions about San Francisco’s homeless. They might just wake up after the last multinational corporation leaves town and stops paying their taxes.
    My last visit to SF was about 3-years ago. Too recent for my liking.

  21. Last time I was SF was just over 35 years ago and it seemed fine then although it was still a big city with good and not so good areas. I sure as hell will never return.

  22. So the city that was, a couple of generations ago, a magnet for achievers from all over the world is now basically a $hithole. Several decades of “progressive” government will do that.

  23. This is made possible by both the San Francisco socialism and weather. They don’t have this kind of homelessness in Duluth, South Dakota. Too cold.

  24. CA’s Prison Guard Union may just be the worst of the state. Immensely powerful and entitled. They are behind a lot of sentencing insanity in Cali.
    A major problem with SF and Cali in general is that you can’t build anything anywhere. That’s probably the biggest reason for so much unemployment.

  25. “That’s probably the biggest reason for so much unemployment.”
    Other than the mandatory minimum wage increase and taxes driving many businesses out of Cali or a shit-ton of the kind of jobs these homeless could be doing going to the Illegals which this sanctuary state/city invites with open arms, yeah vanishingly possible.
    As an aside: I’ll bet the lion’s share of those homeless shelter beds are going to Illegals instead of Americans.

  26. How about using Alcatraz as a holding pen. Lots of cells and area to dump these homeless. Tell them the ones who make the swim to the mainland with be looked after.

  27. Oops. I meant to say that the inability to build anything was the driving force behind the *homelessness*, but I’m sure it causes unemployment too.
    ” a shit-ton of the kind of jobs these homeless could be doing going to the Illegals which this sanctuary state/city invites with open arms”
    This generates the investment that strengthens their economy. Illegals are a boon for America. And no, those homeless are absolutely not going to be doing any jobs anytime soon, brown job stealerz or no.

  28. re: Dave
    Alcatraz isn’t that big. There’s far more homeless to be house than the place can accommodate.

  29. like they don’t shit in the streets here in Toronto!
    Help the mentally ill by enabling them is a big sport for the “churches”, they have been doing that for as long I can remember.
    My “religious” mother used to drag some of them home, my brother and I used to run them off, same shit, different pile. Bring back mental holding pens!!!!

  30. San Diego smells like a toilet too. Homeless everywhere as the climate is even nicer than San Francisco.

  31. I have yet to meet and interdict a single ONE homeless person in CA … and I actually stop and chat with each one who panhandles me … I’ve yet to meet a single one who is employable in any way shape or form. They are broken people with mental and/or other problems that would prevent them from joining our relatively complex society. So the mejicanos are not “taking” their jobs … not even close. Most of these people used to reside in Agnews or Napa State hospitals for the loons. Then we had a movie called one flew over the cuckoos nest … and we let them all out onto the streets. So you tell me … which is more “compassionate”?

  32. It seems to be taking SF and other sanctuary cities a long time to learn a simple truth. If you build it,…. they will come. The more you build,…. the more will come. Compassion is like a magnet to those that can not and/or will not take responsibility for their own lives. The mentally ill and perpetual victims class, the drones and the junkies are all smart enough to see where the most freebees are being handed out and migrate accordingly. Throwing more money at the problem simply guarantees a ever increasing number of gate crashers. Even if these cities had a end game , they should understand that it can never be won, simply because …… if you build it,…. they will come. Left and logic is so incompatible.

  33. “This generates the investment that strengthens their economy. Illegals are a boon for America.”
    How so? On one hand you’re talking: “That’s probably the biggest reason for so much unemployment.” And on the other hand the one’s(Illegals) stealing American jobs are a boon?
    What is this? Taking American jobs that could go to homeless Americans? Illegals taking homeless American shelter beds because the Democrats think American homeless are a tapped-out source of votes and they want to transition to the Illegal vote by giving Illegals shelter beds at American taxpayer expense?
    WTF?! Where is the BOON? It sure isn’t to the American taxpayer of the American people generally.

  34. Reagan said it best: “If you want less of something, tax (discourage) it. If you want more of something, subsidize (encourage) it.”
    We continue to build more ‘supportive housing’ which here on the Island, means no restrictions. You want to drink within the four comfortable walls provided by taxpayers? Your choice. You want to shoot up? Hey, it’s “your home” despite you having absolutely no skin in the game. We’ll provide for you. We’ll repair and maintain the place on your behalf. In fact we’ll make sure your free housing meets nice LEED standards, because you deserve the very best.
    The city determined the last ‘social housing’ complex should go in the nicer north end of the city because we “all share responsibility” for the homeless. Never mind that it’s miles from the milieu the homeless understand and function within. Bus passes! That’s the ticket!
    Now they want to put a similar complex on the less affluent south side of the city, but because people there said they already have problems, the city council (which ignored north enders concerns because – “white privilege”)have said they’ll have to listen to their concerns and reconsider.
    They put in a pubic toilet outside the downtown library at a cost of….
    wait for it…. $150,000. But the down and out still prefer the warm indoor toilets of the library. Now they’ve installed public showers and provide toiletries at no charge.
    Why would you choose to be down and out in Winnipeg when you can be down and out on Vancouver Island?

  35. small, RICH, WHITE, leftist suburbs [are] WHITE, liberal, and RICH. Filthy RICH. And ethnically monolithic.
    It’s not true that they’re ethnically monolithic. There won’t be many Hispanics, and any black residents are likely to be professional athletes, but there are plenty of people whose ancestors are from India, China, Japan, or Korea, and who may themselves have been born in one of those places. I lived in Silicon Valley for thirty-four of the years from 1972 to 2010.

  36. remember Oz, all signs point to unun being actually being a bot. the most predominant indicator being the limited comprehension and repetitive language.

  37. *
    “They don’t have this kind of homelessness in
    Duluth, South Dakota.”
    used to be a canadian comedian who did a riff on this…
    “back in winnipeg, we have a solution to the
    homeless problem…     it’s called ‘winter’“
    *

  38. This = a broad labor pool, so that work can get done. It’s why immigration begets investment, which begets growth.

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