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San Francisco slammed for $5M a year program to give free alcohol to the homeless: ‘This isn’t working’
NY Post ^ | 5/11/24 | Angela Barbuti

Posted on 05/11/2024 6:08:20 PM PDT by Libloather

A program that offers free booze to the homeless alcoholics that roam San Francisco caught flak this week when a tech CEO questioned the logic of feeding the addictions of the city’s street dwellers.

Adam Nathan, founder and CEO of the small business AI marketing tool Blaze and the chair of the Salvation Army San Francisco Metro Advisory Board, posted a thread on X slamming the program after watching a string of unhoused drunks line up for their shots, stating it “just doesn’t feel right.”

“Did you know San Francisco spends $2 million a year on a “Managed Alcohol Program?” It provides free Alcohol to people struggling with chronic alcoholism who are mostly homeless,” Nathan wrote on the social media site.

His estimate was actually just 40% of the total cost — the four-year-old “managed alcohol program” actually costs the city $5 million a year, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

The program as described by the Chronicle sees nurses dispense “controlled doses” of vodka and beer to street people at specific times of the day. Intended to keep the homeless off the streets and out of jail or the emergency room, it’s run out of a former hotel in the city’s Tenderloin district.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Food; Local News
KEYWORDS: alcohol; boxofrocks; california; donatefreerepublic; drunks; free; freebeer; freebooze; freevodka; hoboes; homeless; idiocy; jimseesyou; joindu; liquor; stupidity
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Just wait until reparations hit. Oh, boy.
1 posted on 05/11/2024 6:08:20 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Well that tech CEO ‘s future is done.


2 posted on 05/11/2024 6:10:11 PM PDT by ponygirl (Stay gold.)
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To: Libloather

Drunks will take the free booze and then go buy more to get drunk. Worthless program.


3 posted on 05/11/2024 6:12:12 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: Libloather

Wait, they actually do this? These people are insane.


4 posted on 05/11/2024 6:15:35 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Libloather

“Inside the lobby, they had a kegs set up to taps where they were basically giving out free beer to the homeless who’ve been identified with [alcohol use disorder],” he wrote. “It’s set up so people in the program just walk in and grab a beer, and then another one. All day.”



5 posted on 05/11/2024 6:19:34 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Libloather

Man travels from 2024 to 1968.
“All the people are getting ready for civil war. Students are protesting and locking arms on college campuses and blocking bridges and freeway ramps. College buildings are being occupied.”
Listener: Sure, like now. You aren’t from the future. You’re a fraud.
Time traveler: “And marijuana is legal is legal in 38 of 50 states for medical use and 24 states for recreational use.
And made into multicolored gummy candies. Stores compete for deals to get customers.”
“And free booze is handed out to homeless alcoholics.”
“Homosexual marriage was upheld by the US Supreme Court. The actor who played Sulu on Star Trek married a man.”
Listener: You’re just nuts. It’s fun to dream, though.


6 posted on 05/11/2024 6:20:20 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Friggen homeless are so lucky.


7 posted on 05/11/2024 6:20:25 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: Libloather
Free alcohol to the homeless? What makes them so special? How about free internet to the homeless (and don't forget free laptops so they use that internet), tech companies and everyone else. While you are at it, why not free food to everyone, and free cars, yachts and free hookers, just the logical conclusion to your socialist insanity.
8 posted on 05/11/2024 6:22:17 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: monkeyshine

Well, that settles it. Much as I hate to contemplate the thought, it may be time to move to SF. That would save me a good 5 grand a year in booze.


9 posted on 05/11/2024 6:32:17 PM PDT by technically right
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They couldn’t give me all the Top Shelf Booze in the WORLD to move to San Fran.

Ghirardelli Chocolate? I MIGHT reconsider. ;)


10 posted on 05/11/2024 6:34:49 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Libloather

free booze free dope free welfare free phone free money freeshitarmy...


11 posted on 05/11/2024 6:44:47 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Libloather

Well they have to do something with all that Bud Light.


12 posted on 05/11/2024 6:45:52 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Libloather

And I’ve been buying the good stuff all this time?


13 posted on 05/11/2024 6:48:40 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Libloather

It’s probably the cheapest brand, Popov or Safeway Select. I don’t think there’s a Sam’s Choice brand of vodka. They get a little buzz but end up with a headache.


14 posted on 05/11/2024 6:54:37 PM PDT by webheart
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Diana…..the light side has chocolate too. I have Teuscher champagne truffles!


15 posted on 05/11/2024 6:55:10 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Libloather
A has-been drunk of a gunslinger finds that his fast-draw abilities
can actually be restored by drinking a magic potion.

16 posted on 05/11/2024 6:55:37 PM PDT by chief lee runamok ( Le Flâneur @Large)
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To: Organic Panic

I’m pretty sure that if Clarence “Frogman” Henry were still around, he would’ve put it in the song.


17 posted on 05/11/2024 7:01:40 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: monkeyshine

That’s Commiefornia for you.


18 posted on 05/11/2024 7:01:58 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Libloather
nurses dispense “controlled doses” of vodka and beer to street people at specific times of the day.

Nurses? SF must have run out of social workers.

19 posted on 05/11/2024 7:04:01 PM PDT by Bernard (“God's cruelest punishment is to let you reap what you sow.”)
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To: Libloather

Yeah, that’ll do it. Who’s the moron that thought of throwing gas on the fire to put it out? My goodness, can anybody really be that stupid? Corruption always wins.


20 posted on 05/11/2024 7:09:12 PM PDT by drypowder
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