[rocksblues]

San Francisco's image as a city that accepts all comers ``is everybody's initial good idea,'' Abst said. ``But over time it wears thin. There is always a new wash of people coming here for the first time and you are cleaning up their bathroom habits.''

Now that is sure something I would stand up and defend. /S

[ssaftler]

In the Tenderloin district, San Francisco's seediest quarter with its flophouses, strip clubs and sex shops, a community group wanted to plant hundreds of trees and enlisted an organization that helps homeless young people to do the work.

Went to a show at the Warfield theater over there a few weeks ago. (George Lopez did his "Last Angry Wetback" routine, what a waste of money!) Except for "Original Joe's" restaurant, the place could be nuked, and it could hardly look any worse.

[BenLurkin]

So the locals contend that San Francisco stands for blight.

No argument there.

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

An effort to clean up some of the city's seedier neighborhoods and rid the streets of junkies, hookers and runaways

San Francisco: Intolerant bigots.

[Mr. Jeeves]

But an online neighborhood message board was soon filled with diatribes accusing the city of pandering to well-to-do residents and abandoning its principles.

That is a city government's highest principle - serving the taxpayers.

Note that in most cases, it isn't the bums who are complaining but their self-styled advocates, many of whom have found a way to get paid city dollars for their advocacy and stand to lose said funding if the problem is ever alleviated.