[Dont Mention the War]

How will they ever keep up with their monthly payments to the professional homeless?

[magua]

the protesters are your people san fran. embrace them and shut up.

[ffusco]

"Protests and peaceful demonstrations are an important part of civic participation, so it is appropriate that people gather in San Francisco, but The City is currently absorbing an enormous cost with no help from the federal government," Johnston said.

Classic Lib-Think: We support Activism as long as someoe else foots the bill for our sanctmony.

[noutopia]

Shut up.ask the homeless that you so welcome to pay for their stay in the city by the bay.

[JoJo Gunn]

"Bush seems to be oblivious to the problems in the localities."

Well, if I was President my FIRST priority would be to focus 100 percent on Sodom by the Bay....

[InABunkerUnderSF]

If the SFPD would just bail it's cheif out and a few of it's officers out of jail they wouldn't need to worry so much about calling in the CHP. As for the Guard, don't bother. The local MP outfit got their call up on Saturday. They're off to spend some time in a warmer climate.

I have images of the bums (sorry, The Homeless) arrayed on Market street with sheilds and riot battons. Or better yet, just deploy the CHP on the bridges, 280 and 101 South and let the "Peace Activists" have their fun.

Heh heh heh heh... couldn't happen to a nicer place.

[Jumper]

"Be sure to wear a flower in your hair..." The flower children are starting to reap the seeds they've sown:) Isn't it wonderful to see fruit which is tainted grown into molty repungent and overrip; discarded by even the birds and the bees.

[Damagro]

Send in the National Guard , bayonets in the butt for these idiots

[RIGHT IN SEATTLE]

By taking it up the wei8rdo shaft. And of course, they love it all!

[Caipirabob]

"We already have a $350 million deficit. How are we going to pay for this?"

Try charging the same hourly rates as motels for the use of public men's room stalls. Perhaps a quarter-per-minute timer over the "Glory Holes"?

I really shouldn't joke about this. It may be feasible.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Let's see.

Anti-Bush protests cost the city $120,000 a day. A dirty nuke attack would make the city uninhabitable.

[ARCADIA]

I thought that was why most municipalities license public demonstrations. I would suggest they sue the local activist for damaging local prosperity.

[GOP_Raider]

Is it me, or is my crazy idea of having SF become it's own nation in the same mold as, say, Singapore, doenst sound like a bad idea??

[Drango]

On the day that they start dropping bombs, Powell and Market at 5 p.m. is going to be full of thousands and thousands of people who want direction," Maya Jones of the anti-war organization Not in Our Name told The Examiner.

Mass anarchy and civil disobedience is planned. Shutting down all traffic. Riots. I hope they burn the city.

Nothing will turn the people aginst them faster.

[RightOnline]

""We already have a $350 million deficit. How are we going to pay for this?" City Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval said.(President) Bush seems to be oblivious to the problems in the localities. I'm sure this problem is very widespread from Philadelphia to Denver to San Francisco, but I don't see a bailout plan for the cities.""

Of course, serfdom under King Willie Brown has nothing to do with your money woes, you idiot. It's all Bush's fault. Yep. SF can't pay for its little Traitors' Marches replete with drag queens, homosexuals of all varieties, and other miscreants........and it's Bush's fault.

I think I see your problem, SF. In the meantime, reap it.

[I Am Not A Mod]

Free Republic Highlights 3/2/03

[ODDITHER]

but I don't see a bailout plan for the cities."
Gee, when did the feds become the piggy bank for cities that live beyond their means?
I am sure that San Francisco could save the equivelant to their deficit by suspending funding for "social" programs.
1. Stop giving benefits to the homosexual partners.
2. Stop funding homeless programs that don't work.
3. Suspend funding that is used to validate and prop up deviant behavior.

The amount that cities such as San Francisco spend to legitimize social deviant behavior has caused the deficit, not the war.

[OldPossum]

I wrote the author of this piece, asking what reason would the Bush Administration have for bailing out a city which delights in hosting anti-government war policies. Also, I said why would he want to help a city which is firmly in the hands of the Democrats?

I closed with the old saying: You made your bed. Lie in it.

[John Jorsett]

There you go. A daily pro-war protest that costs the city $120K would drain the city budget of $43,800,000 in a year. Maybe it would be possible to bankrupt them.

[verity]

"San Francisco Examiner" always reminds me of proctology. :~)

[barker]

..... but The City is currently absorbing an enormous cost with no help from the federal government

SF passed an anti-war resolution and now they want the same government they're protesting to help pay for the protests?

"On the day that they start dropping bombs, Powell and Market at 5 p.m. is going to be full of thousands and thousands of people who want direction,"

No problem. Just point them towards the bay.