Posted on 10/08/2018 11:48:06 AM PDT by Hojczyk
It should be illegal to give money to the homeless. Then they wouldn’t have drug money.
Hilarious coming from Newsome. Hasn’t been a decent mayor of that city since Moscone.
Alioto was pretty good. He was mobbed up, but the city worked and stayed clean.
Anyone with kids should read this book..
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America Hardcover – August 7, 2018
by Beth Macy (Author)
Beginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics, Macy endeavors to answer a grieving mother’s question-why her only son died-and comes away with a harrowing story of greed and need. From the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, Macy parses how America embraced a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers became the norm. In some of the same distressed communities featured in her bestselling book Factory Man, the unemployed use painkillers both to numb the pain of joblessness and pay their bills, while privileged teens trade pills in cul-de-sacs, and even high school standouts fall prey to prostitution, jail, and death.
Through unsparing, yet deeply human portraits of the families and first responders struggling to ameliorate this epidemic, each facet of the crisis comes into focus. In these politically fragmented times, Beth Macy shows, astonishingly, that the only thing that unites Americans across geographic and class lines is opioid drug abuse. But in a country unable to provide basic healthcare for all, Macy still finds reason to hope-and signs of the spirit and tenacity necessary in those facing addiction to build a better future for themselves and their families.
Nor does Japan, or Korea, although as a practical matter they have not had to put drug dealers to death for a while. People have gotten the message.
There’s no drugs in Korea or Japan. Even a marijuana cigarette can technically get you 3-10 years in prison.
You don’t have thousands of screwed up zombies walking the streets everywhere you turn. “Mental illness” is a small fraction of what we are forced to deal with every day here. (Police just shot a crazed psycho homeless person with a machete just a 2 minute walk from where I am sitting right now.)
Things you say when you realize you are too far left to get elected even in California.
Sounds like Newsom simply ‘doesn’t care’. How self-centered can a man be?
There are a lot of conservatives in CA yet.
I still see panhandlers at the usual spots right off the interstate.
Begging would be so humiliating to me. I’ve been penniless in my life some but I never stood around with a sign and whining.
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/CITY-HALL-UPROAR-AT-COCAINE-CLAIM-Angry-Newsom-2585078.php
Sorry Gavin, can't be Governor with a accusation. You need to pull out of the race now until there has been a long and complete investigation.
Once upon a time, when things were different (1972-77), there was a TV Program, “The Streets of San Francisco”, that starred Karl Malden (old cop) and Michael Douglas (young cop). The streets of those days were clean though characters were sometimes odd (Haight-Ashbury) and every episode had at least one Chamber of Commerce view
Now, I invite all of my fellow FReepers to imagine true-to-life episodes for a remake. How many joints would the cops put away before slipping on the ‘stuff’ on the streets?
Waiting for the democrats to start eating their own on this in 3, 2, 1...
God they all think they know better than anyone else. The prdeicted sh1t outcomes keep occurring and they never admit they were wrong, it just needs more tweaking.
The guy is homeless but if he took the starbucks coffee money, he could buy enough to eat for three days.
There’s a good chance someone gave it to him.
Whenever I had a *doggy bag* from a eatery while visiting Manhattan, I’d always give the take-home to a homeless person.
IIRC, they were always grateful.
Now, I have no reason to visit NYC. And that’s a fact.
its an election....sure, now he’ll come off as law and order..
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