Posted on 05/29/2018 9:34:54 AM PDT by Zakeet
If what radical leftists and environmentalists say about conservatives is true - that they don’t care about the environment and that they are polluting the entire world - then it would seem that more conservative areas of the country like Texas and the Midwest would essentially be gigantic trash heaps. On the contrary, following that same logic, areas of the country that are controlled by leftists should be clean as a whistle. Why, then, are tourists currently begging the liberal city of San Francisco to clean up their streets?
It's true - San Francisco is quickly turning into a dump, with people injecting themselves with drugs in broad daylight, tent camps and garbage lining the sidewalks, petty theft running rampant and even human feces scattered across the city.
"The streets are filthy. There's trash everywhere. It's disgusting," argued Joe D'Alessandro, president of S.F. Travel, the city's visitors’ bureau. “I’ve never seen any other city like this - the homelessness, dirty streets, drug use on the streets, smash-and-grabs. How can it be? How can it have gotten to this point?"
It's worth noting that Joe D'Alessandro's job is to essentially promote San Francisco for the purpose of bringing in tourists, so the fact that he is openly speaking about how bad the city has gotten in terms of garbage and homelessness is truly telling.
"We can’t be quiet anymore," D'Alessandro continued. "We've got such a glorious history, such a beautiful setting, and the fact is, we’re letting it all slip away into this quality of life now that is not good for anybody. We've become complacent, and I think we’ve taken this as a kind of new normal, and it's not. It'’s wrong, and we have to do something about it."
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“I left my stool in San Francisco
High on a pill, it calls to me...”
The SF of the Stone/Keller/Ironside /McMillan looked better.
It also was about that time that vagrancy laws were done away with. formerly free museums started to charge a fee just to keep the bums out, and public Libraries suddenly became the “IN” place for a drunk to sleep of his load.
One library I used to go to had to close off a floor due to BEDBUGS.
“The SF of the Stone/Keller/Ironside /McMillan looked better.”
I liked Harry Callahan’s work there.
Oh dear what would Adrian Monk think.
It is still forthcoming.
SF was a DUMP 20 years ago... the only difference was, they had pockets where the filth was contained.... so if you controlled where the tourists went, they wouldn’t see the disgusting ugliness that is day to day life in the city... now its just flat out everywhere...
San Francisco streets are LITERALLY $hithole$....
Liberal ideology destroy everything it touches.... it doesn’t happen overnight so it takes decades at times for the piper to come due... San Fran’s has been coming due for close to 40 years now.
It was started by JFK when he signed the 1963 Community Mental Health Act.
San Franfreakshow.
Absolutely.
Think deep state for a minute. Property values go down. San Giacomo’s hiers buy them at depressed values. Move in the gang bangers to scare out the long term renters. Then charge what they want. Bingo.
Same thing in San Jose, Oakland, Mountain View, etc.
It is amoral and a health hazard to allow people to create their own communities which also erode quality of life, home values and impede business.
I was born in San Francisco and moved to Oklahoma in my late teens.
Woke up one morning and wanted to live back in San Francisco.
Funny, in the last 30 years, I haven’t moved back and have lived in the South Bay the entire time.
I visited SFO last week and couldn’t believe how awful the homeless have gotten.
Glad I don’t live there now.
SFO needs to take a que from NYC in the 90’s and clean the place up.
Yep, a real live “shit hole”.
Time for another earthquake!
Whatever the Democrats see as a “fix” will only end up attracting more homeless people and add to the squalor. As long as they are in charge, it is a hopeless situation.
The good news is that a Demo state legislator introduced
a bill that requires that restaurant workers not hand out
plastic straws unless requested by patrons. That will start
us on the road to ecological health in California!
On a serious note if by slim chance a Republican is
elected governor the 135,000 homeless can expect some
attention. A GOP governor will be a convenient target
for blame and the Demomedia coalition will demand action!
I left San Francisco 10 years ago. It was becoming a dump then. Market street has long been filled with trash, litter, and waste but by 10 years ago, the filth was branching off to nearby streets.
A homeless guy peed on a dumpster right in front of me. He said, “When you have to go, you have to go”. I said, “Yes, if you are animal. Humans use bathrooms”. He got mad and approached as if to swing on me. I just stepped toward him and the coward moved off, keeping his mouth shut until out of range when he went on his tirade again.
You sow what you reap. If you subsidize homelessness, you are going to get a lot more of it.
When do we open up the mental hospitals again and commit these people for the care and treatment they need?
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