The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S. (Pelosi's Backyard)

SF Weekly ^ | December 14, 2009 | Benjamin Wachs and Joe Eskenazi

[C19fan]

Despite its good intentions, San Francisco is not leading the country in gay marriage. Despite its good intentions, it is not stopping wars. Despite its spending more money per capita on homelessness than any comparable city, its homeless problem is worse than any comparable city's. Despite its spending more money per capita, period, than almost any city in the nation, San Francisco has poorly managed, budget-busting capital projects, overlapping social programs no one is certain are working, and a transportation system where the only thing running ahead of schedule is the size of its deficit.

It's time to face facts: San Francisco is spectacularly mismanaged and arguably the worst-run big city in America. This year's city budget is an astonishing $6.6 billion — more than twice the budget for the entire state of Idaho — for roughly 800,000 residents. Yet despite that stratospheric amount, San Francisco can't point to progress on many of the social issues it spends liberally to tackle — and no one is made to answer when the city comes up short.

[C19fan]

The worst run city in the one of the worst run states.

[crusty old prospector]

But they care more.

[Dallas59]

Sex in parks....Drugs and homeless on the streets...but hey....It’s progress.

[bamahead]

Not to worry. Pelosi will soon be sending another truckload of taxpayer cash from Washington, so S.F. can balance the books and throw more of our money down the feel-good/do-nothing liberalism sewer.

[Abathar]

I call BS on there title though. Send these homo loving reporters out to Detroit for a week and they can really see how ;iberals run a city poorly...

[newfreep]

BUMP for another example of how SOCIALISM ALWAYS FAILS.

[madprof98]

Sex in parks . . .

Not in the middle of the street anymore? Somebody ought to SUE!

[Abathar]

there = their, need more coffee.

[RexBeach]

Paul Kantner of the “Jefferson Airplane: “San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.”

Hah!

However, I humbly submit that the District of Columbia is the worst run city in America.

[Dallas59]

Well....Only nudity...of all kinds

[Abathar]

You want to really see S.F. in a cluster**** situation? Imagine what it would be like now if the 1906 earthquake happened again with this group of morons running the city and responsible for rebuilding it.

[Scotsman will be Free]

“A belief that good intentions matter more than results...”
This is scum belief. What’s the problem? All scum cities are failing.

[bray]

SF corruption pays Pelosi very well:
http://www.brayincandy.com/id7.html

Pray for America and Our Troops

[wbill]

I had occasion to spend a couple of months in SF for work.

It's a neat place to visit - for an overnight - but I surely wouldn't want to live there. Hit the tourist traps, leave some money, then get the heck outta Dodge.

I've never seen so many homeless drunken bozos begging for money. I'd literally trip over them, laying in the streets. (not an exaggeration....). Times Square, circa the 70s and early 80s, is the only comparison I can make, and I don't think that NYC was quite that bad.

[Happyinmygarden]

The Department Head of which they speak is black, so by definition the authors of this article are simply racists who are acting stupidly. No story here.

[jetson]

San Francisco is a beautiful place with great weather but is run by a bunch of communists that weaseled their way into calif politics over the last thirty years. The majority of peole in the city can’t stand these slobs for what they are doing to ruin a great place. I think a big political change will come to the country as well as SF when the mind numbed morons finally realize what a joke socialism really is.

[Anti-Bubba182]

"..Despite its spending more money per capita on homelessness than any comparable city, its homeless problem is worse than any comparable city's..."

All that did for them was to draw in the professional homeless AKA bums.

[The_Reader_David]

Despite its spending Because it spends more money per capita on homelessness than any comparable city, its homeless problem is worse than any comparable city's. Despite its spending Because it spends more money per capita, period, than almost any city in the nation, San Francisco has poorly managed, budget-busting capital projects, overlapping social programs no one is certain are working, and a transportation system where the only thing running ahead of schedule is the size of its deficit.

There, fixed that!

[The_Reader_David]

Despite its spending Because it spends more money per capita on homelessness than any comparable city, its homeless problem is worse than any comparable city's. Despite its spending Because it spends more money per capita, period, than almost any city in the nation, San Francisco has poorly managed, budget-busting capital projects, overlapping social programs no one is certain are working, and a transportation system where the only thing running ahead of schedule is the size of its deficit.

There, fixed that!

[Beagle8U]

Sorry, Detoilet has them all beat!