Posted on 11/24/2023 3:42:54 AM PST by Libloather
With the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference over and done with in San Francisco, some business owners are complaining that the city is reverting into a den for homelessness and drug use.
Restaurant owner Tony Pankaew said in a local media interview.that San Francisco rushed to clean up the city for Chinese President Xi Jinping and other foreign dignitaries for APEC.
"They cleaned up the people, they cleaned up the streets," he told CBS News Bay Area. "They made the city look good and look impressive for the foreigners, for the politicians."
"Now they have started to come back," Pankaew said. "Slowly but surely. [In] a couple weeks [the city] will be back to where [it was] before."
Pankaew said he was hopeful that things will turn around in San Francisco, adding that a new skating rink near his business might attract more people, and therefore more business.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., was criticized on social media after admitting that San Francisco timed a massive cleanup effort ahead of the summit.
"I know folks are saying, 'Oh they're just cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming to town.' That's true, because it's true," Newsom said at the unveiling of a new program to plant trees in urban neighborhoods as part of his Clean California initiative launched in 2021.
He added, "It's also true for months and months and months before APEC, we've been having different conversations, and we've raised the bar of expectation between the city, the county, and the state and our federal partners."
A San Francisco small business owner spoke out on the APEC clean-up fiasco during an interview with Fox News.
"At first I thought… the media was making a way bigger deal out of this than it needed to be,"
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Lipstick on a pig; still a pig rolling in the mud.
The political elite don’t care about people. They only care about the narrative.
They’ve shown it is still possible to be civilized.They just don’t care.
Surprise, surprise!
Yup..... back to normal!
So, where did they put those thousands of homeless people?
Oakland, for a week there was a “there” in Oakland.
Rats gonna be rats. It’s hardwired in their DNA.
Double cigarette and alcohol taxes in the Bay Area.
Have Pelosi call the DEA to shut down the MJ business.
We only sell cigarettes by the carton.
My fellow bums will steal the carton off me, can I just buy a pack?
No, there’s a city ordinance.
We all know that being in hock to the tune of 30 trillion dollars, for unfunded liabilities for hundreds of trillions of dollars, and paying a trillion dollars a year for debt maintenance alone is going to kill our country as sure as a nuclear weapon, but seeing this tactic in San Francisco...
Making a Potemkin Village out of the city.
They did it publicly. In the open. Even admitted it. Something only totalitarian countries did. The Soviets. The Nazis. The ChiComs (LINK: See any Serpetnza videos about what goes on in Communist China HERE).
And now the United States. It breaks my heart.
I would not doubt for ONE second that they put them up in fancy hotels, open bar, full meal plans at the best restaurants, and a promise they could go back when Xi left.
All paid for, no doubt, with taxpayer dollars. And not just tax dollars from the idiot denizens of San Francisco or other California locales. Federal tax dollars paid by you and I.
So they know how to FIX the problem. They just don’t want to, or don’t know how to maintain the situation.
Like Seinfeld’s rental car company. They know how to MAKE the reservation. They just don’t know how to KEEP it.
They can do it; they just don't want to. They want the problem.
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