Apparently even the liberal mecca San Francisco is getting fed up with the "homeless" problem.
From the San Francisco Chronicle:
San Francisco - the liberal, left-coast city conservatives love to mock - could be undergoing a transformation when it comes to homeless people. Although the city would still be a poor choice for a pep rally for the war in Iraq, indications are that residents have had it with aggressive panhandlers, street squatters and drug users.
"Maybe there has been an epiphany," says David Latterman, president of Fall Line Analytics, a local market research firm. "People have realized they can hate George Bush but still not want people crapping in their doorway."
"I don't expect it to be Cow Hollow or Pacific Heights," he says. "But the other day Jenny is bringing the kids back from the park, and some guy is standing on the corner throwing up on himself."
"We go out to drive the kids to school," he says, "and there's human poop between the cars."
This is what happens when the crop finally comes in and liberals reap the full fruits of their permissiveness.
Most of these folks aren't the "down-on-their-luck, hard-worker-oppressed-and-put-out-of-a-job-by-evil-capitalist-profiteers" people the Left paints them to be.
As a local article inadvertently pointed out here in Rapid City recently, many are in this situation because of substance abuse and mental problems that should warrant institutionalization, and most have reaped the fruits of moral failures.
The answer isn't to be "tolerant" of their situation and pat ourselves on the back for our open-mindedness, but to address the root causes of this situation.
It looks like things are getting so bad that even liberal San Francisco might have to rejoin the real world and do something substantive for a change.
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