Posted on 11/29/2010 8:26:49 PM PST by Libloather
Why do left coast liberals hate the homeless?
Posted by: ST on November 29, 2010 at 7:22 pm
Fox News reports on a battle currently underway in the uber-liberal left coast city of San Francisco over the issue of allowing the homeless, panhandlers, etc. to sit and/or lay on the sidewalk during the day. Proponents say the recently-approved ban is necessary, citing safety concerns. Opponents say the ban is ‘heartless’ and takes away from the city’s ‘culture.’ Ahem.
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Don’t you love this? Liberals vs. liberals in a debate that seems to be about whose “civil rights” are more important – businesses trying to attract customers, and people peaceably trying to walk down the sidewalk without getting verbally or physically harassed, or the harassers themselves? And the fact that this is a law that other liberal cities have had to put on their books is ceertainly an illuminating one. Aren’t liberals the ones who are supposed to be the most “compassionate” when it comes to the homeless and other street people?
Gotta say, though, that I find the whole “this law will take away from our culture” argument truly astonishing. Really? Homeless people and/or panhandlers “add to the culture” of a city? I don’t think so. One of the primary responsibilities of a city is to keep its residents safe and that’s what this law – one supported by a majority of San Franciscans – aims to do. People will stop traveling to touristy areas of a city if they don’t feel safe. Duh. This is not to pick on the homeless, but the brutal reality is that some homeless people will not leave you alone, and if the harassment continues everytime you visit a particular section of town, you’ll simply stop visiting.
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Send all homeless from every city to berkely, problem solved
Streets full of garbage, people urinating on the streets ... people sleeping on the streets, folks defecting on the sidewalks. Streets strewn wit needles. Even the most avid liberal his/her limits.
Hypocrites.
“Not in my back yard.”
SF once considered having mobile injection vans where intravenous drug users could have a safe place to shoot up. Michael Savage said that “My suggestion would be for the vans to be set up in front of Nancy Pelosi’s and Diane Feinstein’s houses.”
He also says that he could never understand why the city doesn’t round up the bums, put them in work camps, and give them a bath and some kind of an education. Instead they have homeless outreach programs where city workers go and give them bottles of water and food. “How are you, Mr. Homeless Person? Would you like another sandwich? We understand that you’re a victim of our racist, bourgeois society.”
“If we’re only going to embrace certain people than not only will we make San Francisco a less vibrant and progressive place, but we will cease to be that beacon for the world, and the world needs San Francisco,” says Blue, a community activist.
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Not much I can add to that. I know I thank God every night when I say my prayers for that beacon to the world.
It’s an “in your face” stark reminder that their Utopian Dream doesn’t work !!
I think the reason that the elite left hates the homeless is that they are a reminder of the end result of socialist policy.
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