Originally posted by JBA
Do you believe these bums get $359 a month. When the local San Fran. Legislature tried to use the money for shelters and food and give them $59 a month the sued the city.
Can’t buy alcohol and drugs with food and shelter.
When San Francisco started giving derelects "benefits" the murder rate among homeless in SF nearly doubled. Of course this could also be because the amount of homeless people went up dramatically as more were attracted to SF for the homeless stripend. Now it's virtually impossible to not be accosted by a derelect, not to mention the entire City smells like stale urine, and as a result the tourism industry in San Francisco is going down the tubes.
There are so many worthy organizations out there deserving of financial support that it galls me when AK Iron or someone else walks by a Muscular Dystrophy(sp) display at a supermarket without dropping a nickel in the collection plate and then gives a buck to some worthless piece o crap who has put himself in the situation he's in. What happened to personal responsibility?
Make lots of jokes about this, but as long as we have this blight on our society we'll be less of a nation, providing less in services to the truly needy, than we can be. As far as I'm concerned if it were legal to shoot derelects I'd be the second one in line (behind Steve) to buy a license.
Dolf Vader, if you truly believe the "vast majority of homeless are mentally ill" then I invite you to visit me and we'll drive into San Francisco and you can judge for yourself whether or not they're mentally ill or just manupilating the system.
It's well meaning liberalism that is completely out of touch with the realities of human nature that has turned San Francisco into a sespool. Ask the business owners who clean the human feces from their doorways every morning before they open for business how well SF's cash "benefit" program has helped "rehabilate" homeless and get them off the streets. They are like pigeons, and the more feed you put out for them the more pigeons will show up. If you stop feeding the pigeons they'll go away.