Posted on 06/24/2010 7:59:39 AM PDT by SmithL
San Francisco is generous, good-hearted and socially conscious. It is eager to help the disadvantaged and the poor.
There's just one flaw in our civic personality.
Tough choices.
We'd rather not make them.
On Monday, a parade of hundreds of service organizations appeared before the Board of Supervisors, pleading for funding for their programs. These aren't bad people and their programs to help the young, the drug-ravaged, and the homeless are well-intentioned.
But the hard truth is there are far too many service providers for this relatively small city. They duplicate efforts, they don't have enough oversight, and they spend hundreds of millions of city dollars.
Now - and here's the tough part - with the city facing a historic $483 million deficit, some of them are going to have to go. Or, as the San Francisco Community-Based Organizations Task Force put it in April 2009, they need to be "encouraged to identify their placement within the nonprofit life cycle, and contemplate the possibility of closure."
Close service organizations? Let the howls of protest begin. But let's take a hard-eyed look at this.
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Actually, the flaws are Marxism and sodomy, you nitwit.
This is the trouble with socialism and communism.
Many many services and not enough money anywhere to pay for them all.
That is why you are seeing many countries in Europe collpasing financially and economically.
And that will continue unless these countries change and alter their course 180 degrees!
Don’t cut any Free Stuff! In Arizona we’re sending lots of “new citizens” your way and they’re gonna be ticked off if there isn’t plenty of “regalos” waiting for them.
Too many of these organizations are more skilled at snagging grants than helping their clients, more skilled at inflating their employment than moving clients to employment, more skilled at touting themselves as virtuous than touting virtue to their clients. In other words, there’s a conflict of interest when the organization is living on other people’s money rather than their own. If I use my own money, I have a built-in reason to be judicious. The last thing these groups want is to decrease their clientele.
Tough choices.?!?!!?
There’s lots of low hanging fruit (pardon the pun) that can easily be trimmed from the budget before they even have to begin with any thing that affects basic services.
I begin to believe the majority of "service' organizations are mostly about providing good jobs for the directors.
So glad I’m not a San Francisco serf anymore. Nevius is right on. Can’t wait to see what they do about the problem. HA!
“Actually, the flaws are Marxism and sodomy, you nitwit.”
Coffee out of my nose laughing!
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