The state of emergency that San Francisco mayor London Breed declared for the Tenderloin last December has a lot of people talking but no one is paying closer attention than the people who live there.
VIDEO HERE (27:04 minutes)
The state of emergency that San Francisco mayor London Breed declared for the Tenderloin last December has a lot of people talking but no one is paying closer attention than the people who live there.
VIDEO HERE (27:04 minutes)
Decades of government enabling comes to fruition. Who knew?
ReplyDeleteFew, if any at all, will change without motivation to change. That includes the 'experts' who have created this disaster.
Kenny, I too worked with the homeless, though probably not as much as you. The expected 2 steps forward, three steps back didn't frustrate as much as the 'experts' regularly changing gears as they moved to the next new thing. That plus sometimes actively discouraging good efforts by others.
To me, a person in need is a person in need. To some orgs, a person in need must first qualify by checking off enough boxes. Then there are those, like city departments, who languish as they wait for yet another study from yet another group of experts. Ii try not to be coldhearted but I am done with it. Cities create the mess, now they can stew in it.
A friend had been several decades working in helping the needy druggy or homeless. He stopped because of resistence and overt hostility from the city. He became bitter because all the good work of the Christian mission he was with was wiped away by the city on the suggestion of their new experts. His org was doing work before anyone else git involved, long before government even admitted a problem.
Its laughable though sad that a city says they're going to do great things. I wonder if officeseekers use the issue to generate positive PR for an election campaign.
"You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible."
ReplyDeleteThomas Sowell
The Tenderloin has been a problem for more than eighty years now. Any doubts, just google how it got its name. Today, it represents a place between purgatory and hell. A place where souls with no hope go to die.
ReplyDeleteLike most problems government has created and maintained, if it was a real problem for them, it would have been solved by now. But for now, it's a place for Democrats to harvest votes.
So how do these people get food? Water? And drugs? There is no way they can steal enough. Im guessing that ditzy liberal do-gooder's are providing food & water...but the drugs?
ReplyDelete"...plus sometimes actively discouraging good efforts by others."
ReplyDeleteThat's because once the government gets involved and starts throwing taxpayers' money at the problem, that problem becomes a nice little earner for them. The last thing that they want is for the problem to be solved, that would mean that the money dries up.