O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas

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1. Same as in Vancouver. The (in)famous Downtown East Side has been the root of most activism in B.C. for decades,even sent activists to city government and to Ottawa as MP’s, but nothing changed on the streets, except now there are more of ’em.
   San Francisco is just another lost lefty city, the smart ones will leave, the rest will stay.

   1. “Same as in Vancouver. The (in)famous Downtown East Side has been the root of most activism in B.C. for decades,even sent activists to city government and to Ottawa as MP’s, but nothing changed on the streets, except now there are more of ’em.”

      So true. Notice how all the things that the homeless want and need, from methadone clinics to safe injection sites to shelters to bottle recycling depots etc are all *right there* for them? No wonder the problem keeps growing, and don’t even get me started on how many of them are not even from Vancouver (we attract them from all over Canada, apparently).

2. Governments don’t want to solve problems….they want to ensure they continue so the State can grow.

3. Build it and they will come. Free stuff creates demand, infinite demand. The Bolsheviks and Jacobins running SF haven’t figured out that the solution to their fiscal mess lies in shifting it to their federal fellow Jacobins and Bolsheviks. All they have to do is bus all their homeless to Mexico so that they can re-enter illegally as “refugees” (get rid of all their paper work) and go on the federal dole at somewhere around $2200/month for housing etc. Meanwhile all those old “suckers” who worked all their lives and paid into Social Security the whole time have to get by on $1400/month (as long as it lasts). I now know why they declared SF a “nuclear-free city”. In addition to driving out the Navy, they somehow knew that the only likely way that they could be removed from office was from a thermonuclear solution.

4. Welcome to CA … where nearly ALL the $$ taxpayer money goes to huge government salaries, perks, and gold-plated pensions. It’s the same thing with Cal Trans … our roads are shit … because of huge salaries for do-nothing bureaucrats … and the taxes we pay go everywhere BUT to its intended purpose …because Cal Trans is politically “anti-car” too … just like San Francisco’s homeless Dept. … they’re politically “anti-shelter”. Because none of the homeless will obey the necessary RULES of the shelters, such as curfews, no drugs, no violence, etc.

5. So…8,000 homeless on the streets. $3.3 Billion thrown at it. That’s over $400,000 per homeless person.

   1. Or, on a yearly basis, $672 million for 8 thousand homeless = $84,000 per person per year.
      Couple up, and that would give a pair of people $168,000 per year. I know SF is expensive, but 2 people could eke out a living on that, I imagine.
      As with the recent SDA story on the Canadian gov’t giving millions for faster internet, nobody in the media bothers to do the simple math to see how much that works out to per individual, or household.
      Scary when the gov’t decides to address something. Or more accurately, to be “seen” addressing something.

      1. However … 3,999 of those couples would STILL live on the streets … doing even better drugs … if they received that kind of taxpayer largesse.

         Not to worry though … because SF is rapidly running out of other peoples money

6. No matter the issue or problem, if those hired to fix the problem actually fix the problem, they’ll put themselves out of work.
   Kind of a reverse catch 22. If a person gets hired with a very lucrative salary and benefits, it ain’t a long process to figure out that solving the issue will cause the loss of that lucrative salary and benefits. Far better to continue to work on the issue that to fix it!

   Common logic, nobody said these grifters were stupid, only greedy!

   A bigger “problem” is where this will end up eventually, I see the complete breakdown of western society, gee, it’s almost as if it was deliberate eh!

7. Government are the things we do together (at the point of a gun) to build a better society (for the connected) and we measure it’s success based on it’s good intentions (rather than results).

   Toronto’s useless mayor plans to raise taxes on housing in order to make housing more “affordable”, while continuing to subsidize the unsuccessful, and make life more difficult for those that aren’t the “preferred people” (also known as those who are dependent on government).

8. Many years ago, was privileged to meet a woman who had had to resort to welfare to feed herself and her family. That woman could pinch a penny like no one else I’ve ever met (and I’ve known some really good penny-pinchers) and kept the family properly fed and clothed. My thought then – and I’ve had no reason to change my mind – was that, instead of being on welfare, she should be employed by the welfare department to go around and give advice on how to live frugally. I figured that would have been much better than having middle-class social workers (who had no experience with poverty) providing “help”.

9. One can make a career out of perpetuating a crisis, less so in solving it. That is the crux of the problem. There is no incentive in solving a problem but there is an incentive to milk it for every penny one can. Doesn’t matter what field or topic: health, environment, etc.