Posted on 12/13/2023 5:26:05 AM PST by bert
San Francisco was cleaned up for Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit for the APEC Summit in November
Less than a month after Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, San Francisco is reverting to a den of homelessness and drugs, according to locals.
"It's recognizable. San Francisco, same as before. Anyone they pushed out of important zones has just slowly crept right back in," Crossfit Golden Gate Gym owner Danielle Rabkin said on "Varney & Co" Tuesday.
In November, President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jingping met during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit (APEC) in San Francisco for a much-anticipated face-to-face — the first since the two leaders met in Indonesia in November 2022.
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Prior to the event, the host city was cleaned up for the arrival of foreign leaders, including President Xi.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., was criticized on social media after admitting that San Francisco, nationally infamous for homelessness, timed a massive cleanup effort ahead of the important U.S.-China summit.
"I know folks are saying, 'Oh they're just cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming to town.' That's true, because it's true," Newsom said last month at the unveiling of a new program to plant trees in urban neighborhoods as part of his Clean California initiative launched in 2021.
He added, "It's also true for months and months and months before APEC, we've been having different conversations, and we've raised the bar of expectation between the city, the county, and the state and our federal partners."
Despite the clean-up efforts, Golden Gate City has gone back to "business as usual," leaving business owners like Rabkin to deal with a "tremendously difficult" reality.
"I have vagrants lying in front of the business all the time," the gym owner said. "It's unpleasant. People don't want to live here."
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"I think that's the number one thing that potential customers and customers from the past have left. People don't want to live in a city that's this expensive with such a high cost of living, in such a low quality of life. Nobody wants to be subjected to dodging human feces and needles on sidewalks and exposing their children to open-air intravenous drug use. It's really unpleasant."
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The city has considered employing a nonprofit to head homeless outreach programs, spending roughly $37 million. However, the city has spent around $1 billion since 2021 to fix the persistent problem.
"$37 million is a drop in the bucket. Like you said, we spend $1 billion. The city has a $14 billion budget. It's only seven by seven square miles, 49 miles. I don't know where this money's going. I don't know how it's going to be spent. But it's unfathomable that the problem is as bad as it is with the money that is spent," she said.
Everybody knows the Progressive cancer is internally rotting the Progressive City States away but nothing can be done to end it
For America, that's very very good. Untiol the City States have rotted away, there is no America
When it becomes all the more obvious, even some Democrats will notice. I suspect a sea change is coming, as no longer can Democrats point to some Republican in political power, so complete have been the fingerprints of the Democrats on San Francisco, a city and a country run -- and run into the ground -- by Democrats.
Even Mayor Breed, with all the Democrats from county, state and federal government and no Republicans in charge, has said rather recently "Biden is not doing enough to help." Johnson in Chicago and Adams in NYC are going the same route, with the new failing gambit -- "the fault is capitalism" -- being trotted out.
The Democrats , ever fleeing from accountability, have nowhere to run now.
I don't have a problem with that. They made their beds, let them sleep in them.
Oh it’s all too recognizable. Take a look at San Francisco, and you’re staring right at the evil known as “WOKE”.
The people of SF complain about everything that's wrong with SF, yet you continue to keep the same people in office. Like Einstein said: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." It's hard to feel sorry for people who elect the same people over and over and put judges in office who openly state they will free people who steal less than $1000. You wanted to be a Sanctuary City and you got what you wanted. Now you're bitching about the type of people who are attracted to that moniker.
If you're not happy with the situation in SF, do something about it!
“”I have vagrants lying in front of the business all the time,” the gym owner said.”
Hang up some speakers outside and play The Shags on an infinite loop.
L
Barry Manilow. Think a continuous Mandy and Can’t Smile.
I can see you’ve never heard The Shags.
I’d recommend “My Dog’s Name Is Foot Foot”. It violates the Geneva Conventions.
L
FTA: The city has a $14 billion budget. It’s only seven by seven square miles, 49 miles. I don’t know where this money’s going. I don’t know how it’s going to be spent.
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Where is all that money spent? It ain’t in cleaning up the city of crime and the drug addicts.
I’ll see that and raise you “Paralyzed” by The Legendary Stadust Cowboy.
Never heard of the Shaggs till now. Unbelievable.
Everyone knows it’s that damn capitalism that’s causing the homelessness....
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/beyond-stupid-democrat-official-san-francisco-blames-citys/
Surely seems like "Democrats funding other Democrats."
I say we call it a draw. That way no one gets hurt.
Best,
L
An excellent example of word salad.
“Hang up some speakers outside and play The Shags on an infinite loop.”
First time I’ve heard of them, not my cup of tea. Gym owner can also play the ‘Barny the purple dinosaur’ song endless loop. That should do it.
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