Posted on 12/28/2016 7:59:15 AM PST by george76
San Francisco.. stands as a profound example of the damage ultra-liberal policies can do.
After 20 years of envelope-pushing changes to grow government and ease law enforcement, the once-shining City by the Bay has turned into a place where:
Property crime runs amok.
An online map is needed to track human feces on city streets.
Discarded syringes are common sightings.
Public urination is so widespread it has damaged subway elevators and escalators, building walls and power poles
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San Francisco has the dubious honor of being at or near the top of numerous national surveys tracking homelessness, the cost of housing and other issues. One distinction is not disputed: it has the most property crime in the nation, according to the FBI
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And in the media, San Francisco’s brand has taken hits, with headlines such as “Why San Francisco is the Worst Place Ever,” “34 percent of Bay Area Residents are Ready to Leave,” and “Complaints of Syringes and Feces Rise Dramatically in SF.”
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San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan -- who had taught Marxist seminars and helped run the Communist club at UC Berkeley
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Smash-and-grab thefts from locked cars are so common that car repair shops have waiting lists.
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With a crime rate of 70 per one thousand residents, San Francisco has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes
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San Francisco faces a perennial budget deficit in the billions factoring in generous pension costs, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
The city, meanwhile, is proposing to spend $5 million on lawyers to defend illegal immigrants against Trump's push to deport criminals. This doesn't take into account the tax dollars Trump is threatening to withhold if the city doesn't comply.
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I had an interesting conversation with a young woman this week who was visiting relatives and lives in San Francisco. She’s the daughter of my oldest friend. I haven’t seen her in many, many years. He passed early in life so I feel some kinship towards her.
Clueless is how I would describe her political leanings, helpless is how I would describe life in San Francisco. The worker bees there want to live there, but their zombie obedience to the dogma runs deep. It’s like mega high school on steroids.
They actually think that there is no other way to live. The haves are worshiped as royalty by the have not class. Anything to make connections, being accepted by your betters is the holy grail.
It is a subsistence level existence with no real hope of self improvement.
“It’s all of California now. The crime is out of control.”
I long for the day I need a passport to visit California.
Progressives want to bring back feudalism. They expect to be lords living in the big house up on the hill. They expect the peasants to kowtow to them. And a lot of the potential peasants look forward to this too — because it would be so awesome to live right at the foot of the hill where such a cool person lives!
Any other place, you've gotta clean up your mess before you leave. Campgrounds. Parks. Cafeterias.
Before any sanfransicko/kalifornian should be allowed to leave that sewer, they should have to fix it first.
Because they migrate to civilized areas and turn it into the dump they just left.
$5 million to protect illegals?
They are pikers!!! Los Angeles is going to spend $10million of taxpayer dollars to ‘protect illegals’—& I must point out at the same time that those illegals are a scourge in all parts of Los Angeles & the TAXPAYERS are not happy about it.
I used to live in the San Fernando Valley. I rode my horses all over Oat Mountain—at the north end of DeSoto AVe in Chatsworth.
Had a Christmas phone call with an old riding buddy. They now are trying to ride with tents popping up all over near their trails, and the riders-—mostly women—do NOT feel safe any longer when riding.
I used to carry my .38 in the spring due to the rattle snakes. IF I still lived there, I would be carrying year round.
Surprise, right?
They don’t care. When these parasites are done destroying Cali they just move to other states. Rinse, repeat
I live in Marin County, just north of San Francisco. We used to go to SF to restaurants, to shows, and to shop. We haven’t been in 14 or so years (except to drive through on the way to the airport). The last time I went, I took my daughter and a couple of her friends to go prom dress shopping. Union Square was filthy. While stopped at a light, a homeless guy or mentally unbalanced guy (or maybe both) started pounding on my car. I can only imagine how much worse it is now. I used to take my kids to the San Francisco Zoo. Now that my kids have children, they go to the Oakland Zoo. When Oakland has a better reputation than SF, you can tell SF is in bad shape.
A Rudy Giuliani could fix San Francisco, but there is still no public will to elect one.
Lol-
Dude....!
Awseoooome.....!
Does a kardashian live there?
There is hope though, I know of a VeRY liberal couple...
Until they were robbed and slapped around.
Indifference from the police no sympathy from libtard friends
They moved to a southern state!
They now BOTH own hand guns
And seem much happier
In that sense I am not hopeful for Pittsburgh, where the Mayor’s two key priorities appear to be building bike paths and banning “gay conversion therapy” on supposedly gay yutes.
I thought his job was to pick-up the garbage and fix potholes.
Well, after all, San Francisco prides (pun intended) itself on being a "stank-uary city".
California is a great place.
Wonderful climate. Beautiful scenery. Right on the ocean with great ports. Big.
It just has too many people for the rich Californians. Those people just clog up the roads and take over the beaches.
How do you get rid of the middle class in California?
You make California unattractive to them.
The limousine liberals don’t see Bob The Wino out crapping on the sidewalk.
The Nancy Pelosi Democrats need some poor people to mow their lawns and be nannies, but those damn factory workers can all just move to Mississippi.
Heh. Years back after reading about this in a corner of my city I had an idea for an “implantable civil order device” where if you were convicted of pooping in public you got it implanted for a few months. The gist was that you physically couldn’t dump unless you called a special hotline to confirm you were sitting on a toilet or sat on one that had a short-range wireless transmitter triggered when you flushed.
I was firmly told by the patent-assistance company that I went to to drop the idea “like a load of radioactive bricks”.
Well do ya want a solution or not?
At least it’s still diversified, tolerant, peaceful, hopey, changey, green...
Wouldn't even think of it today.
That pretty much sums it up.
As the election evidenced, there’s big city Cali and then there’s rural, small city red California.
We shouldn’t smear places like Fresno county and other sane parts of the Golden state with the same brush.
But blue CA sucketh, verily.
San FranSicko officials need to tour Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, Memphis and so on.
To get a first hand look at the (Obama)hole city they will become.
San Francisco has blight?
Who knew?
Death by gallows, or by loathsome disease.
It depends, the man said, on whether I embrace your principles, or your mistress.
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