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Anonymous Coward User ID: 79688577 United States 03/06/2021 08:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I used to go (before Covid) visit a long time friend and his OG hippie mom out there for a weekend. Free lodging and he'd take us out to some good food in the city. Good times when I got a chance to get away. Quoting: Brian Moran But man what a heartbreaker driving in past the bridge. You'd see the tents just stacked up under the overpass, it would take you minutes at full speed to drive past it and you'd get struck by the humanity of it all out there. I'm not here to bash on homeless people, don't get off fucking with people who are at that low of a standard of living in this world. But the problem is real, it's bad. I wouldn't wish it on anyone, that's not the way. Imperfect solution to "deal" with this problem isn't going to work but if you try to do it with any sense of really having a chance to make an impact you're called a socialist. Sick society either way, going downhill so fast just exacerbating the problem on both ends. Try to fix it with radical solutions you're a liberal baby eater. Let it be and let the problem fix itself you're a disgusting city full of disgusting homeless indigents. No compassion anywhere to be found. The church? They'll feed you though. People say some nasty stuff about the Salvation Army or Loaves and Fishes or Food Not Bombs but these are people not wasting their time pissing on the heads of the dregs of society and telling them it's raining. Have mercy on us, we can do better but you have to stop with the bipartisanship. George Washington warned about this and other things, he wasn't perfect but he had some perspective. But really, if you can't afford to live in San Francisco or LA or wherever, you can't just live in a tent. I can't afford it so I don't try. Just like I couldn't afford London or Paris or the rents in numerous cities throughout the world. Go where your money goes the farthest. Go where it's affordable and better job opportunities. If it's because you can't function in society due to drug addiction or alcoholism or self induced serious case of stupid then we need to figure out what allowances we want to make for them. What kind of slack do we cut? We need mental hospitals and we need barracks to store our addicts til they have a literal or figurative come to Jesus moment. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77482022 United States 03/06/2021 08:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to pjmedia.com (secure)] Quoting: Don Draper from Nantucket California is in the midst of a self-induced homelessness crisis that shows no sign of abating anytime soon. The crisis is especially acute in San Francisco, where Mayor London Breed has erected three tent cities to house about 300 homeless people. The cost? About $61,000 a year per tent. All told, the cost of the program is $16.1 million. I guess in San Francisco, even the tents are first class. The city is running a $650 million deficit and the tent city isn’t eligible for reimbursement by the government, so that money comes out of city coffers. If the homeless were housed in a first-class hotel, the federal government would gladly reimburse the city for that, but not for a few measely tents? San Francisco counts about 6,400 people as homeless, although that doesn’t include people living out of their cars, or the thousands who flit from temporary shelters to relative’s residences to friends and neighbors — anywhere they can find a place to lay their body down. Many of these people have jobs that don’t pay them enough to live within 50 miles of San Francisco. The city was basically forced to adopt the tent idea because most homeless shelters closed down due to COVID restrictions. But $5,000 a tent? Certainly, allowances should be made but that is a ludicrous amount of money to spend on any group, regardless of their hard-luck circumstances. I think this is stupidity and very costly with no permanent solution. IKEA is now even selling the Tiny Self Sufficient Homes with solar panels and there are many abandoned buildings They should have designated a portion of land and put Tiny Homes on them that were Self Sufficient and in return made these people get into some Gainful Work Activity whether that is Rehabilitation, Education Work Skills, or some little Part Time Work To just put them in costly temporary tents and let them continue doing what they are doing is stupidity and a waste of everyone's time and money. If you are going to do something, make a permanent solution to the problem. |
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(OP) User ID: 57553864 United States 03/06/2021 08:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to pjmedia.com (secure)] Quoting: Don Draper from Nantucket California is in the midst of a self-induced homelessness crisis that shows no sign of abating anytime soon. The crisis is especially acute in San Francisco, where Mayor London Breed has erected three tent cities to house about 300 homeless people. The cost? About $61,000 a year per tent. All told, the cost of the program is $16.1 million. I guess in San Francisco, even the tents are first class. The city is running a $650 million deficit and the tent city isn’t eligible for reimbursement by the government, so that money comes out of city coffers. If the homeless were housed in a first-class hotel, the federal government would gladly reimburse the city for that, but not for a few measely tents? San Francisco counts about 6,400 people as homeless, although that doesn’t include people living out of their cars, or the thousands who flit from temporary shelters to relative’s residences to friends and neighbors — anywhere they can find a place to lay their body down. Many of these people have jobs that don’t pay them enough to live within 50 miles of San Francisco. The city was basically forced to adopt the tent idea because most homeless shelters closed down due to COVID restrictions. But $5,000 a tent? Certainly, allowances should be made but that is a ludicrous amount of money to spend on any group, regardless of their hard-luck circumstances. I think this is stupidity and very costly with no permanent solution. IKEA is now even selling the Tiny Self Sufficient Homes with solar panels and there are many abandoned buildings They should have designated a portion of land and put Tiny Homes on them that were Self Sufficient and in return made these people get into some Gainful Work Activity whether that is Rehabilitation, Education Work Skills, or some little Part Time Work To just put them in costly temporary tents and let them continue doing what they are doing is stupidity and a waste of everyone's time and money. If you are going to do something, make a permanent solution to the problem. Pretty much sums up big government! PLATA BITCHEZZZZZZ UPGRADE UNAVAILABLE The Rolling Stones said it best... "What's confusing you is the nature of my game" |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 77482022 United States 03/06/2021 09:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Whoever got rid of the Mental Hospitals and Asylyms did the USA a GREAT injustice I worked the jail for awhile as a Med Tech and a great majority of the ones in their were completely insane I remember one day, one that was hearing voices in his head just proceeded to bash his head against the concrete wall 20 or 30 some times and blood everywhere before he could be restrained and rushed to the hospital, only to be sent back stapled up. They are just in there, mumbling to the walls and screaming, and throwing feces and urine and acting like violent wild insane animals It is really unfair to the Police Officers that they have given them all the Mentally Insane people instead of putting them somewhere where they can be given treatment and really some sedation |
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User ID: 36807832 United States 03/06/2021 10:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | There's a lot I can say on this subject. The government is so backwards efficient that it's...well There's just no words. Almost anybody could come up with a more cost effective solution. You could just randomly pick somebody in Walmart and say "fix this" and they'd do better. What does this say about government? Government is the root cause of virtually every major problem facing this country today. These people don't even exist in reality. Common sense is absent. They're busy orchestrating their schemes and plots and in order for their bullshit to stay remotely internally consistent they end up taking the most preposterous positions on one issue after another. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 79844014 United States 03/06/2021 10:54 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Great news! This can only lead to the inevitable implosion of their economy, people will be shitting in the streets, errr oh wait. Wait til all the big tech firms move to WA and TX, SF will literally collapse under the burden of unhindered social spending in months and will become a 3rd world shithole. Gonna be.. PRECIOUS |
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Vision Thing
User ID: 80013382 United States 03/06/2021 11:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Follow the money...some politician in San Fran is getting rich off of this....Nancy? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77071969 This is how all this stuff works, they aren't interested in solving this problem because the more homeless people there are, the more they can point to it and say "oh look, those poor people, give us lots of grants and donations so we can help those poor people" and then they embezzle, take kickbacks, pocket and graft off all that grant money all day long. It's the only explanation because the vast sums of money are certainly not reducing the number of homeless people or making their lives better in any apparent way. There's an evil segment of society that sees social problems and suffering as a cash cow and a goose that lays golden eggs. The worse it gets, the better for them. Same type of people who profit off refugee resettlement programs and war. They create the problem on purpose to use it to manipulate people. Just my opinion. |
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User ID: 80013382 United States 03/06/2021 11:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Whoever got rid of the Mental Hospitals and Asylyms did the USA a GREAT injustice Quoting: MagdaleneReturns I worked the jail for awhile as a Med Tech and a great majority of the ones in their were completely insane I remember one day, one that was hearing voices in his head just proceeded to bash his head against the concrete wall 20 or 30 some times and blood everywhere before he could be restrained and rushed to the hospital, only to be sent back stapled up. They are just in there, mumbling to the walls and screaming, and throwing feces and urine and acting like violent wild insane animals It is really unfair to the Police Officers that they have given them all the Mentally Insane people instead of putting them somewhere where they can be given treatment and really some sedation Nutritional deficiencies such as magnesium deficiency, can cause psychosis. You can bet prison food is severely deficient in nutrition. They should feed them scientifically like zoo animals, with every base covered, they know animals get sick when they are missing certain trace minerals and vitamins. That's how they do disease research on animals in laboratories, they induce the "disease state" by withholding a certain nutrient from the diet, then when the animal develops symptoms as a result, they try to conjure up a chemical drug to suppress the symptoms. They do it on purpose to people too, if you eat a bad diet you are playing into their hands by creating another customer for their expensive drugs. Just a plug for my idea that prison food is cruel and unusual punishment and that half the problems in the prison population and the recidivism problem could be fixed with a quality nutritionally sound diet that included all necessary nutrients especially minerals which are used up by stress as well, so people who are deficient and under stress need even more nutrition to avioid becoming ill including mentally ill. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 76694111 03/06/2021 11:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I wouldn't wish it on anyone, that's not the way. Imperfect solution to "deal" with this problem isn't going to work but if you try to do it with any sense of really having a chance to make an impact you're called a socialist. Quoting: Brian Moran Sick society either way, going downhill so fast just exacerbating the problem on both ends. Try to fix it with radical solutions you're a liberal baby eater. Let it be and let the problem fix itself you're a disgusting city full of disgusting homeless indigents. All set against a culture and system, particularly in a city like SF, that's way more liberal or leftwing today than it has ever been. So if disgust with a "progressive" approach is expressed by various people, it's not like a kissy-kissy liberal formula has been such a blessing. People of the left are to government and policymaking what Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Cosby were to being friendly to young girls or serving drinks to women out on a date. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76694111 03/06/2021 11:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is how all this stuff works, they aren't interested in solving this problem because the more homeless people there are, the more they can point to it and say "oh look, those poor people, give us lots of grants and donations so we can help those poor people" and then they embezzle, take kickbacks, pocket and graft off all that grant money all day long. Quoting: Vision Thing Similarly, the family of one of the criminals glorified by BLM have lashed back at that "non-profit" for raising something like over $90 million in the past 14 months and not forking over some of the cash to them. The founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center said the goal of his "non-profit" was to get guilty Northern white liberals to part with some of their money. Leftism pays. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76694111 03/06/2021 11:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is how all this stuff works, they aren't interested in solving this problem because the more homeless people there are, the more they can point to it and say "oh look, those poor people, give us lots of grants and donations so we can help those poor people" and then they embezzle, take kickbacks, pocket and graft off all that grant money all day long. Quoting: Vision Thing Similarly, the family of one of the criminals glorified by BLM have lashed back at that "non-profit" for raising something like over $90 million in the past 14 months and not forking over some of the cash to them. The founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center said the goal of his "non-profit" was to get guilty Northern white liberals to part with some of their money. Leftism pays. |
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