Posted on 09/29/2023 2:43:58 AM PDT by Libloather
Experts on San Francisco, drugs and crime responded to San Francisco Mayor London Breed's Tuesday proposal to require residents who wish to receive welfare services to comply with mandatory drug testing and treatment programs.
Breed's announcement comes amid growing pressure to hold back the city’s homeless and fentanyl crises and as challengers to Breed as mayor continue to throw their name in for office in 2024.
"She's in trouble," former San Francisco councilman and business owner Tony Hall told FOX News Digital. "She's found her administration is under increasing fire from the voters in San Francisco. She has to do something about the drug situation in San Francisco. So this is her latest salvo, trying to sound like a conservative in that she's really doing something. She does this periodically whenever she's in trouble. There's no follow through."
Hall said that Breed's proposal was the "right approach" for handling drug use among welfare recipients in San Francisco; what he was skeptical about was the willingness to actually enforce the proposal.
"They should be drug tested and there should be a mechanism in place to not only help them, but ensure that they're tested," Hall said of welfare recipients. "So she has done nothing. There is no mechanism in place to set up the testing. So she knew this announcement and this is typical. She makes these announcements and nothing happens and that's why the city is the way it is."
Safety and security expert Bill Stanton said that government benefit recipients should expect to abide by government rules.
"It's not like the government is forcing you. This is giving individuals an option," Stanton said in response to Mayor London Breed's drug testing plan. "If you want to collect from the government, this is where you need to be compliant."
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“If you want to collect from the government, this is where you need to be compliant.”
LOL! What else can one say?
Must be an election coming up.
We know the solution to “homelessness” and crime but the Democrats don’t want to solve the problem. They thrive in the chaos that these street zombies create.
It is hard to steal from the public treasury when things run smoothly but easy to steal from the public treasury when there is chaos in the streets.
I thought conservatives held mostly traditional values. Was just talking to someone about how much greater this country was when mom’s were able to be there for and raise their own kids, complete with time to actually clean the environment and prepare more affordable, healthier meals. When they could focus on starting a family rather than the “career oriented” push of modern Western society. Back before chivalry died.
My grandmother was widowed and when we cleaned out her home, I found government issued jars of peanut butter and fake cheese. No cash, no luxuries, just sustenance.
I can’t tell you how infuriated I am at seeing welfare recipients paying for their high end restaurant food with EBT cards or seeing the pregnant criminal immigrants paying for multiple grocery baskets overflowing with junk food, soft drinks and steaks with multiple SNAP cards from different states.
“Leftists always do this, once their policies get too much for the voters then they act conservative by lying. “Oh I will mandate drug testing for welfare recipients” or leftists blaming Trump for the border issue “Joe Biden has fixed what Trump did by making the border more secure”
The courts have decided over and over that required testng for a benefit is unconstitutional, so, this is a safe empty threat for a lib to make.
Happier and more productive…
Why is it that the “good guys” are always getting “da backlash” from the far left’s yellowstream “media”?
by a country mile.
The federal government intentionally destroyed the family unit, setting itself up as “daddy” and income provider.
That left daddy to take care of himself and not care about the family unit.
And mommy and the kids were reliant on big government, and did whatever they said, in order to keep the gravy train rolling.
The ONLY plan that will work is stomping out drug use through attrition. Stop saving the lives of people who persist in attempting suicide. When police have stories about having to administer Narcan to some of the people multiple times in a single day, it’s time to stop. They’ll freely admit that they’d rather die than get clean. Let them have at it.
Reality: "She's found her administration is under increasing fire from special interest groups in San Francisco."
wait for the racist protests.
She's a black leftist but unlike Barbara Lee she is relatively young.
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