Take Back Our Streets from the Bums, Druggies and Crazies

SF Gate (Chronicle) ^ | October 4, 2002 | Adam Sparks

[sfwarrior]

We are the compassionate city. We are a city of refuge to illegal aliens; we love 'em all. Pot smokers make us their home. We won't cooperate with the feds on terrorism investigations. And we let homeless die on the street like dogs.

We are a fun-loving city. We associate the cause of homelessness with some trauma such as a loss of a job or an eviction that led a person to live in on the street. This allows us to give the homeless the patina of a certified "victim" group.

The reality is quite different. The typical homeless person has been in San Francisco for less than 12 months and has not just lost a job or been recently evicted, according to the Department of Human Services. These people have fallen into despair through many years of irresponsibility combined with substance abuse. They're not "homeless" in the conventional sense of the word; they're crazies with drug abuse problems. They need to sober...

[sfwarrior]

This is a stark comparison between NY's success and getting rid of the bums and crazies and SF's effort to encourage them. It's working for both towns!

[sfwarrior]

Ping

[martin gibson]

These people have fallen into despair through many years of irresponsibility combined with substance abuse. They're not "homeless" in the conventional sense of the word; they're crazies with drug abuse problems. They need to sober up and get off our streets.

B-b-but this is HATE SPEECH!!!

The author is clearly a racist and an angry, white gun owner who does not love the planet.

[babyface00]

$395/month! What do they need all that money for? By definition, they don't have a mortgage. I can't believe they have car payments. I'm sure they're not buying "work clothes".

Heck, with the weather in SF, I'd consider quitting my job to get on that gravy train. Do they have to pay taxes on the handout?

[I_Love_My_Husband]

We need to get rid of the illegals too. They take up way too much of our tax (federal, state and city) dollars.

[Carry_Okie]

Nice article (and I think you took it as far as you dared in this political climate), but here is the reality:

Homeless advocates love homelessness, not just because it brings socialism, but because it provides them an empire to fund their lifestyles. They are parasitic leeches, many living quite well, thank you, off confiscated taxpayer dollars spent funding human misery. Indeed, they depend upon it. All of the rest of their blather is but fanning their substantial egoes for their charity with somebody else's money, for which no amount will be ever be sufficient.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Great article. Thanks for posting it. I e-mailed the author and thanked him, also.

A central point we all should keep in mind: The left, no matter the form but especially these victim advocacy groups, have as their No. 1 goal to prove that capitalism does not work. Their pitious pleas for this group or that are designed to make the victims situation worse, not better. The worse thinks get, the more the victims will blame capitalism and look for solutions to the people whose rhetoric they liked most and that will be the same people who put them in the victim class in the first place.

Creating misery is part of their strategy to gain political power.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

I said the same as you, just not near as well. Another thought - these people aren't homeless. They are street people and the street is their home by choice, at least for most of them.

[SeenTheLight]

Great article! The Socialist connection is one that is rarely made in the discussion of "homelessness." It's time to take back our city from the Homeless Mafia---Vote Yes on Prop N!

[cm2003]

You know he is right so you use the race card to shut him up:-)