Giving out dogs, eh? Was this Obama's idea?
Posted on 06/16/2012 8:39:11 PM PDT by Innovative
A new program in San Francisco will pair carefully selected dogs from shelters with panhandlers in an effort to steer the latter away from asking for money on the streets and keep the animals from being euthanized.
The temporary guardians (the words "pet" and "owner" are frowned upon in San Francisco) will receive weekly stipends of $50 to $75 and must agree to jettison their cardboard signs in the pilot project believed to be the first of its kind in the country.
The program, scheduled to start in August, is called WOOF, short for Wonderful Opportunities for Occupants and Fidos. The animals will eventually be placed in permanent homes.
"I can't make panhandling go away," said Bevan Dufty, one of the plan's architects. "But I can make a better offer."
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PETA - Please pick up the white courtesy phone NOW!
I’m sure they’ll find them delicious.
They’ll eat the dogs!
Giving out dogs, eh? Was this Obama's idea?
Why can’t we send these people to Mars?
People who don’t want dogs, should not be given dogs.
These beggars will take the dogs, to get the weekly money, but I doubt they will care for the dogs.
Liberalism is a mental disease.
That you! I'll be here all weekend.
dog* ... /sigh, time for bed.
Liberalism is a mental disease.
Ah California! The state where the technical terms of master and slave to denote a hard drive configuration relationship are likewise frowned upon (if not disallowed outright). Is one allowed to have a "master" bedroom is the once Golden State?
I live alone, but somehow, the brown acid made it into my drink
I cannot believe how incredibly stupid that is. I mean Dehydrated stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid, so stupid it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. It is trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. Nothing in our universe can really be this stupid. Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know.
Indeed. That you, that you very much! :-)
“I cannot believe how incredibly stupid that is. I mean Dehydrated stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid, so stupid it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. It is trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid.”
San Fran... they took the left over brown acid.
Also, it can be hard to get a date on Saturday night at the glory hole.
I like it. The unemployed will be working by fostering dogs. The people and dogs both benefit.
“Giving out dogs, eh? Was this Obama’s idea?”
ROFL!!!
How does giving a homeless man something that costs money to keep encourage him to not be homeless? This is insane.
I’ve just come back from nearly 2 weeks in CA and the pan handlers and homeless are everywhere. I don’t think there are enough dogs to go around.
“The unemployed will be working by fostering dogs. The people and dogs both benefit.”
The dogs are given to PANHANDLERS, not “ordinary unemployed” people. These are chronic beggars, mostly homeless, they can’t even take care of themselves, much less dogs. The don’t want the dogs, they just want the money and will probably starve the dogs.
no doubt...
are you kidding? they'd prolly violate the dog first!
--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
This just in.......a large gathering of homeless people has been sighted in San Fran's Chinatown
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Really? Do you want to have your thug friends in the government take any more of my money for things you like, Commie trash? |
Obama-level stupid?
This is probably the most stupid government program I’ve ever heard of. Kalifornia? No surprise there.
>> dog* ... /sigh, time for bed.
Don’t tell me... YOU’RE that agnostic, dyslexic insomniac that lays awake at night wondering if there IS a Dog?
bingo... Stooopid on the 0bama order of magnitude!!!
>> The people and dogs both benefit.
I’m curious. Have you ever actually *been* to San Francisco?
>> They’ll eat the dogs!
I doubt it. But what they most definitely WILL do is use the poor dog as nothing more than a beggar’s prop, just like a throwaway cardboard sign, a styrofoam cup, a three day old beard, a greasy dirty tee shirt...
How do I know? Because they ALREADY DO IT! The panhandlers have been using dogs (and cats) as props for YEARS — predating this stupid idea by a LONG time.
The people who dream up this sh!t are stupid and naive beyond belief. Beyond “Chode stupid”, even. :-)
Excellent point.
The gods themselves look down in horror.
If it keeps the dogs from being euthanized and gives the homeless a purpose then have at it. Who knows it may keep the homeless from being euthanized.
It must be bliss to be so ignorant of how the real world works.
Ever seen how poorly dysfunctional people treat their children?
For some bizarre reason, you seem to believe they would provide better treatment to animals.
It is our fire department’s policy to transport anyone who is drunk to our sobering center; if they are too drunk to walk they go to a local hospital. Needless to say this results in millions of dollars in unpaid ambulance and hospital bills every year. So what are they going to do with the dogs when they transport the drunks?
They are almost all in treatment all of the time. lol
Those poor dogs have already had it rough, and now the liberals are going to do this to them. How sad.
Photo of dog with sign propped up against it that reads “give me your spare change or the dog gets it” coming up in 24 hours or less.
The reason people are chronically homeless is because in some way they are rejecting societal norms in a dysfunctional way. We have a large homeless population where I live. There ARE hard workers temporarily homeless, and it is shocking and upsetting. They probably have their own dogs they are worried about caring for.
The chronically homeless fight, are drunk/stoned, and/or mentally ill. (My fave here has a sign, “Why lie? I need a drink”) To put some poor dog out on the street with them would be a disaster.
The insanity never ends with the libs. I can tell you which “homeless” person owns which intersection on the Las Vegas strip. Now in San Fran. they’re going to pan handle for a dog, too? Or will the dog be used to drive the point home it’s their intersection? Seriously, I think someone is putting drugs in my water.
They have a great scam going.
OTOH, I understand that these are *formerly* homeless people, who would be getting the dogs. Perhaps this will be the only *love* these people ever know.
What kind of a hideous *agency/bureaucracy* is going to be created to monitor this program? Oi!
ROFL...money to spend on drugs, booze whatever...and starving pups on the street. Oh yeah, this has SUCCESS written all over it /s. I’m still laughing.
The dogs might love the people, but will the love be reciprocated? Given my experience with human nature and bureaucracies, I can’t imagine this will end well.
They actually learned something from Florida. Now they have the Terry Schiavo answer to their pound problem.
Having a parade where they walk around with each other on a leash is perfectly acceptable in SF.
You’re right.
They’re nuts.
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