Ready for your $5 million in reparations Charlie?
Posted on 05/07/2023 5:49:08 AM PDT by devane617
Its tech industries are still booming. It is the financial hub for the whole of California, with the state now the fifth largest economy in the world. And it is home to some of the world’s biggest companies.
Add it all up, and San Francisco should be one of the best retail centres globally; an easy place to sell every kind of luxury good, fashion essentials and high end electronics. The money is there, as well as the people to spend it.
Yet this week, the department store Nordstrom announced it was shutting its locations in the city, joining a growing exodus of big name retailers. Household brands are in despair over the damage inflicted by an ultra-woke local government.
There is a warning here for many British cities, not least as left-wing parties consolidate their dominance following another set of disastrous local elections for the Conservative Party. Push businesses too hard, let crime run out of control, and eventually they will simply up and leave. It is happening in ultra-wealthy California, and very soon it could be happening in London, Bristol or Cardiff.
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They want the ruin.
Perhaps:
You have to have a downtown merchants gift card with a balance of at least $50 to enter the store...
The writer almost got it.
They want the sales tax revenue.
When shopping doesn’t require any financial transactions, it’s hard to willingly stay in business.
Ready for your $5 million in reparations Charlie?
They’re too damn stupid to understand or realize what they do...
I was in San Francisco about 15 years ago.
It was still a livable city.
I met a few homeless people but I didn’t see a single tent.
No one will pay attention
They will continue to vote Democrat.
Pelosi needs to call up the DEA and have them close down the SF metro pot shops.
California need to raise alcohol and tobacco taxes sky high: With want I pay to smoke and drink I could afford an apartment where I was born.
It is possible to have penalty time rooms where offenders could have to stay for say 100 hours total within 30 days for say a shoplifting incident, or spend eight hours in jail for every hour they don’t, with hours spent in the 168 hours after arrest counting double, hours spent in the second week counting 150 percent, etc.
The offender might be required to opt in by spending at least eight hours in such a room within 72 hours of arrest.
This system would cut costs by removing the need for most trials, public defenders and jail medical care. It would also allow offenders to retain their legitimate jobs.
Warning? democrats are destroying these cities on purpose.
I’m reluctant to believe reporters.
You’re embedded.
Your perspective would be appreciated.
Ditto, wife and I were there about the same time, around 2007, no problems. Wonderful food. We walked about a half mile from our hotel to a nice Italian restaurant one evening, no problems.
In my dreams, CA liberals are lured out to cliffs by the promise of free weed, and like lemmings jump into the ocean, leaving CA for decent people. Without libs CA would be close to paradise.
WE honeymooned there in 1989. It was awesome.
I am shocked to read this admission on Yahoo of all places.
It’s not a warning, it’s an instruction manual. And make no mistake, it is, and will continue to spread.
“Warning? democrats are destroying these cities on purpose.”
DITTO. The only plausible explanation is this is willful. Makes these large population centers dependent on a central government like Washington.
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