San Francisco looted region's water system, diverted millions into city coffers...

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 9/15/02 | Chuck Finnie

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Copyright 2002 San Francisco Chronicle .

TODAY Bay Area water system in peril.

MONDAY Public power vision betrayed.

Over the past 20 years, San Francisco officials raided the city's vaunted Hetch Hetchy Water and Power system of hundreds of millions of dollars, leaving the Bay Area's largest water supply vulnerable to earthquake, drought and decay.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

ping the list

[blam]

Sounds like they need a new tax, huh?

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Trash placed in office loots. Why are you suprised?

[hauerf]

Ah, the joy's of socialism at work.

[hauerf]

"joy's"?

Can somebody please tell me again how this "preview" feature is supposed to work?

[ppaul]

...to bankroll invest in city programs and salaries for everything from the Municipal Railway to health care for the needy.

There.
Now it complies with Democrap, politically correct doubleespeak.
Wasteful social spending is always referred to as "investments".
Foolishness is always referred to as "our values".
And, after the last 10 years, the public apparently has swallowed it.

BTW: Have you noticed how the "needy" recipients of these "investments" openly defocate and urinate on the sidewalks of the City by the Bay? Downtown stinks to high heaven, and nothing is done about it.

[John Jorsett]

If you hit the 'preview' button, you'll see your post as it will appear. If you think it looks ok, then you hit the 'post' button> Otherwise, edit your text and then hit the 'preview' button again to see how the changes look. Repeat until you're happy.

[Grampa Dave]

Great find and post!

[I_Love_My_Husband]

San Francisco has a million non-profiteers and I'm SURE that's where the money went. Specifically to all the gay/lesbian non-profit-eers, there's a BRAND NEW 8 MILLION DOLLAR BUILDING that's paid for by us! Plus we're spending MILLIONS on transgender operations! Anyone can come here and get one for free!!! Isn't life marvelous! note to sfwarrior: can you look into this further?

[lelio]

Rudy Nothenberg, who ran the city's Public Utilities Commission during Mayor Dianne Feinstein's administration, defended the fund transfers, saying, "There is nothing wrong in my view with using the (Hetch) Hetchy power resource to generate money for the general fund, which pays for cops, parks and recreation and everything that people hold dear."
We're dealing with the same thing up here in WA state where car tab fees and gasoline taxes were going into this morpheous general fund that politians can just dip into for any cause. Thankfully Tim Eyman's group is trying to put an end to this and have taxes generated from one specific area go to support that area.
If you want to fund parks and such then have a bond measure for it. People will pass them if they are reasonable and give benefit back to the community.

[John Jorsett]

I suspect this is going on all over the state. In San Diego, the city looted our sewer fund that was to pay for upgrades and repairs. They started charging the fund right-of-way fees for use of the public streets to run the pipes! Now that the fund is out of money, they've graciously promised to stop sucking money out of it. Meanwhile, sewer pipes were breaking and overflowing all over town, so they discovered that "hey, we have no money in the fund!" so they were 'forced' to raise sewer fees so that repairs could be made. Some days I just want to go to the polls and start shaking my fellow voters so that they'll wake up and stop electing these thieves.

[Grampa Dave]

So how long has Davis and his Water butt boys been ignoring this?

But hey, when you have a city full of socialist/communist maggots/perverts that never produce a single thing or service of value, you have to have find ways to fund these perverted lifestyles of the maggots and perverts. Sex change operations are expensive and one maggot might have 20 aids infected partners depending on his health insurance.

When Da Mayor took over San Francisco, this was very predictable. Willie came close to bankrupting Califonia a couple of times, and we produce a lot of stuff/services inspite of the perverted rats amongst us. San Francisco is a prime of example of a city ruled by perverts and Rats in bed with the perverts!

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Me too!

[Carry_Okie]

This one looks to be a solid antidote (though not exactly breaking news).

[sheik yerbouty]

Willie Brown.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Bay Area residents who use Hetch Hetchy water. 183% Projected monthly water bill increase for San Francisco water users by 2015. 121% Projected monthly water bill increase for suburban Hetch Hetchy water users by 2015.

[Carry_Okie]

Foolishness is always referred to as "our values".
And, after the last 10 years, the public apparently has swallowed it.

Methinks it is because the people of San Francisco were busy swallowing something else.

I'll go hide now.

[alrea]

Sounds like they need a new tax

at least the ENRON team was hired to make a profit instead of voted in as trusted public servants.

[Paladin2]

When I moved to CA some decades ago, the first thing I did was to go to Yosmite. Appalled by the crowds, traffic and commercialization in the "valley", I looked at the map and headed over to the next valley to start into the back country. I remember being appalled (today I'd say troubled - LOL) that there was this huge dam (Hetch Hetchy)in a National Park (and one of the first ones at that).

How can the enviro-weenies in SF possibly force themselves to use water stolen from its rightful ecological location by a huge manifestation of the industrial world, shipped hundreds of miles from a despoiled (effectively by these very people) natural enviromental treasure that belongs to the world?

And then make a (government) profit on it (probably still partly supported by national tax dollars taken from me - who no longer resides in CA)?

It is and was truly amazing. These people have no shame (nor understanding of the hypocracy of their physical existence - they would stop breathing now (CO2 pollution comes from people too) and help stop global warming if they "really cared").