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  • San Francisco Needs an Immediate Independent Audit

    And probably a take over, assuming California can do that. Nearly 8000 homeless and a combined spending that equals more than $37,000/homeless person - how the heck do they have anyone still on the streets? Instead, they have lost tourism and conventions because they have so many homeless on the streets!

    That money isn't getting to where it's needed - there's no way that those numbers don't reflect serious misappropriation if not out and out graft.

    $37,000 and you can't house these people?!

    I'm fully aware that homelessness comes with a lot more than just financial issues - but that's an astounding amount being put into the system - cities with only a fraction of that don't have people sleeping on sidewalks and pooping in the street. Something is very wrong in San Francisco.

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    Before tossing in more money, the state government needs to act - send in the auditors and investigators to find out where all that money is going. If somehow it's not being diverted, good - now find out why it isn't working (yeah, yeah, we can already guess - but be fair and prove it). If it is being diverted, criminal cases need to be brought, and the government needs to be taken over.
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  • #2
    Originally posted by Teallaura View Post
    And probably a take over, assuming California can do that. Nearly 8000 homeless and a combined spending that equals more than $37,000/homeless person - how the heck do they have anyone still on the streets? Instead, they have lost tourism and conventions because they have so many homeless on the streets!

    That money isn't getting to where it's needed - there's no way that those numbers don't reflect serious misappropriation if not out and out graft.

    $37,000 and you can't house these people?!

    I'm fully aware that homelessness comes with a lot more than just financial issues - but that's an astounding amount being put into the system - cities with only a fraction of that don't have people sleeping on sidewalks and pooping in the street. Something is very wrong in San Francisco.

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    Before tossing in more money, the state government needs to act - send in the auditors and investigators to find out where all that money is going. If somehow it's not being diverted, good - now find out why it isn't working (yeah, yeah, we can already guess - but be fair and prove it). If it is being diverted, criminal cases need to be brought, and the government needs to be taken over.
    When I was growing up vagrants we arrested and jailed. We did not have a homeless problem. Now we have a number of homeless camps around my city.
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    • #3
      Most of the money is probably being sucked up by "administrative fees" which is an intentionally vague budget line item that can mean anything from employee salaries and office supplies to "training seminars" at a high-dollar tropical resort. That's usually how these things work.
      Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
      But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
      Than a fool in the eyes of God


      From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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      • #4
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        • #5
          Sounds like money is being wasted somewhere.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Leonhard View Post
            Sounds like money is being wasted somewhere.
            Sounds like the United Kingdom. Massive amounts are spent on “the poor” and on “management”, and it seems to do no good whatsoever. This puts one in mind of another endless and useless drain on resources: overseas aid. Billions of £££s are given in aid, only for pictures of the “starving millions” to be shown yet again..and again...and again. It is not the business of Govt. to waste billions of money, but that is what it does. And in the meantime, real problems, like broken paving, are done nothing about. ΙMO, people who beg and have no need to should be imprisoned, as a matter of course.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by seer
              When I was growing up vagrants we arrested and jailed. We did not have a homeless problem.
              Originally posted by Rushing Jaws View Post
              Sounds like the United Kingdom. Massive amounts are spent on “the poor” and on “management”, and it seems to do no good whatsoever. This puts one in mind of another endless and useless drain on resources: overseas aid. Billions of £££s are given in aid, only for pictures of the “starving millions” to be shown yet again..and again...and again. It is not the business of Govt. to waste billions of money, but that is what it does. And in the meantime, real problems, like broken paving, are done nothing about. ΙMO, people who beg and have no need to should be imprisoned, as a matter of course.

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              • #8

                I'm always still in trouble again

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                • #9
                  Meanwhile...

                  Source: San Francisco’s mayor won’t crack down on people using city as an outdoor toilet


                  San Francisco is full of … well, it.

                  This isn’t a reference to the trash-talking between Golden State Warriors fans and Los Angeles Laker diehards over LeBron James.

                  It’s not even regarding the ongoing culinary rivalry that San Francisco has with foodies in New York City.

                  And it certainly has nothing to do with the criticism Bay Area politics receives from conservatives across the country on a daily basis.

                  Rather, as a statement of fact, in the most literal possible sense — San Francisco is full of excrement.

                  According to a recent NBC Bay Area investigation, an alarming amount of trash, used drug needles and feces are clogging San Francisco’s streets.

                  The report centered around a 153-block survey of downtown, which, according to the report, “revealed trash on every block, 100 needles and more than 300 piles of feces along the 20-mile stretch of streets and sidewalks.”

                  Talk about a slice of Norman Rockwell’s America.

                  After the report aired, NBC caught up with newly elected San Francisco mayor, London Breed, and asked her what she plans on doing to combat this emerging public health crisis. Breed told the Peacock Network that she is working with homeless advocacy organizations that receive funding from the city to better educate the homeless to stop trashing the city.

                  “I work hard to make sure your programs are funded for the purposes of trying to get these individuals help, and what I am asking you to do is work with your clients and ask them to at least have respect for the community — at least, clean up after themselves and show respect to one another and people in the neighborhood,” Breed told KNTV.

                  When asked by KNTV if her plan calls for stronger penalties against those who litter or defecate in public, Breed said “I didn’t express anything about a penalty.” Rather, the mayor said she has encouraged nonprofits “to talk to their clients, who, unfortunately, were mostly responsible for the conditions of our streets.”

                  Who has time to crack down on the louts who are littering the streets with hypodermic needles or defecating in public? Someone, somewhere might be using a plastic straw! Priorities, people!

                  If the mayor plans on using all carrots and no sticks to solve this problem, she’s going to have to get very creative.

                  Maybe Mayor Breed could model a program based on the city’s successful gun buyback event. The city’s last installment offered $100 for every handgun and $200 for every assault weapon, no questions asked.

                  Imagine if the city offered a $100 gift card to Crate and Barrel for every ziplock bag filled with human waste dropped off at City Hall and $200 for every Hefty bag?

                  You wouldn’t even have to advertise that there would be no questions asked, it would just be implied.

                  Dr. Kelly Victory is a trauma and emergency medicine specialist and public health and healthcare policy expert. She tells me that San Francisco had better do something about this crisis pronto. “Human waste on the street poses an enormous public health risk; feces can transmit numerous bacterial infections, including cholera, a multitude of viral infections (including norovirus, which people associate with food poisoning outbreaks on cruise ships), hepatitis A, various parasitic diseases and worms,” she warned.

                  “In addition to the risk directly incurred by pedestrians, city workers, shop owners, etc., these people unknowingly pick up fecal remnants on their shoes and then transfer it to their businesses, cars, public transportation and homes. To complicate matters further, when the rain comes, it washes all of that material into the city’s drainage system. In other words, the poop — and the nastiness it contains — doesn’t stay where it was laid,” Victory said.

                  If Mayor Breed doesn’t get this under control soon the City by the Bay will soon be known as the something else by the bay … and that’s not good for anyone.




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                  "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
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                    ...or a white guy with spelling issues.
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
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                      When US right-wingers are embarrassed by the fact that Jesus was to the left of Marx...
                      "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Dimbulb View Post
                        When US right-wingers are embarrassed by the fact that Jesus was to the left of Marx...
                        Says the guy with a phony PhD who doesn't bother reading original sources.

                        Jesus was, in fact, apolitical. The closest he ever got to making a political statement was when he said, "Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and give to God what belongs to God." Jesus advocated righteousness on a personal level whereas Marx advocated abdicating personal responsibility to the state. Marxism and Christianity are ideological opposites.
                        Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
                        But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
                        Than a fool in the eyes of God


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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
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                          Jesus can spell better than that.... Just sayin'...
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Leonhard View Post
                            "Ill-nourished" and "red head" come from where, exactly? I'm not even gonna get started on how ridiculous 'alien' is...

                            Seer is wrong - this is worse.
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                              When US right-wingers are embarrassed by the fact that Jesus was to the left of Marx...
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                              Ironic how those who proclaim that Jesus was a left-wing socialist are often the same ones who refuse to believe in him.

                              I'm always still in trouble again

                              "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                              "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                              "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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