And the doom loop for San Fran Freako just gets worse…
San Francisco’s mayor has ordered city departments including police and public health to propose budget cuts of $206 million by next week in a desperate attempt to reverse the stricken city’s ‘doom loop’ spiral into economic collapse.
Law enforcement budgets in the city, which is ravaged by homelessness, drugs and a downtown business exodus, face cuts of $27.6 million, while the public health department could lose a further $25.9 million, according to a DailyMail.com analysis.
The fire department must propose reductions of around $10.5 million to meet the mayor’s demand, while city’s crumbling Municipal Transport Agency must find savings of $15.5 million, a review of official figures suggests.
Full article HERE from the UK’s Daily Mail.
You know it’s pretty sad when the Brit papers have better coverage of what is going on in the US than the MSM does, even when they are local!
San Francisco has been going down by leaps and bounds for at least the last 5 years, if not longer, following the other blue cities into disfunction and oblivion exacerbated by defunding the police/leftist DAs/changing felonies to non-prosecutable misdemeanors.
It is a sad ending for a once great city, may it rest in peace…
Suppose you were someone like Nancy Pelosi, famous for real estate acquisition of property in San Fran, might you not engender policies to drive down prices and then gobble up the market of some outstanding real estate?
Must be doing it for her heirs’ sake, if that’s her actual plan.
And then create a private police force and when one of the officers gets mostly killed turn him into a cyborg.
I’ve seen this movie…
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It’s extremely sad… though its been a number of years since I’ve been there it was always one of my favorite locales
Cuts like that almost always come from the staff who actually work, and not the admin who do little.
I’m not feeling the sads here. Seems the people of San Fran got exactly what they voted for, good and hard.
They can only cut bodies from the budget, as things like health care (to include all costs to do trans surgery), pensions are all untouchable due to being mandated by law or contactually.
They VOTED for this, fuck’em. You made the bed enjoy your nap.
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The comment on reliable news.. yeah, there are a couple of Brit papers which are very good — Daily Mail, Telegraph. BBC is complete enough, but iffish on word choice. Washington Examiner on this side of the pond. Other suggestions?
San Fran is just the first of many cities that are in the same shape. As they continue a downward spiral the nation itself with the Communist controlled Demoncrats running the USA into debt it cannot repay, we are seeing the entire nation in decline. Will America survive this deliberate assault from within? That is the big question, only God knows the answer.
5 yrs?!? It’s been way longer than that, what we’re seeing now is the fruit of decades of intentional policy.
My question is, is there a goal to this deliberate destruction, or is it all collateral damage to their actual plan?
Yep. Started in the 60’s and by the 70’s, it was the degenerate city of Dirty Harry fame, and just kept sliding and sliding, like those expensive homes on the cliffs after rains…
I was stationed near SF back in 1979. The signs were visible then. Outlandish behavior from the gays, aggressive panhandlers, and trash and litter becoming more prevalent.
Maybe if they stopped spending all that money on the bums and addicts they’d have enough to clean up the streets and pay the others? The one budget that shouldn’t be cut and should be increased is the police. Everything flows downhill from crime. You clean up the crime first (like throwing out the bums and the addicts) and everything else magically gets better as well.
This was how Guliannia cleaned up NYC years ago.
There is no magic solution. Money – for any purpose – does not appear out of thin air.
Business creates wealth and jobs… which in turn is what pays taxes. If you treat business as something between a cash-cow and an enemy. If you think it doesn’t matter how expensive your energy is, or how onerous your regulations are….business will go elsewhere.
Jails have amongst the strictest regulation and the highest ratio of security personnel to general population, but nobody wants to live there, let alone pay to live and do business there.
San Francisco has been quietly rotting from within for over 40 years. The last 5 or so years have just been extremely public and disgusting.
It was a beautiful city, and it’s a shame what years of idiocy has done to it. I will never go back.
5 years? They’ve been pooping on the sidewalks for at least 10.
The city will collapse, businesses will totally bail, then even the homeless and helpless will bail, spreading their diseases like rats.
Beans,
crapping on the sidewalks really began when the idiot politicians banned free shopping bags, and mandated the shoppers had to pay individually for each bag used. Guess what the homeless were using to crap in?
Not sure if they were too stupid to make the connection, or too embarrassed to admit they might have made a mistake there. BTW, the banning of those one use bags cost over 5000 jobs in L.A., where they were made and distributed from. Another hit from the ecco-whackos…
If you want revenue and jobs, you need business.
If you want business, you need an environment in which business is safe and profitable.
If you want good people, you need an environment that is safe, affordable and pleasant.
But go ahead… blame racism or Ukraine while doing nothing about the things that caused this problem in the first place.
Sad to see such a storied city in decline, but the citizens allowed, and encouraged, it to happen.
All- Thanks for the comments, and yes, now that I think about it, y’all are more accurate as to how long ago the ‘decline’ started. When I transferred in 78 was really the last time I spent any time down in the city. When I went back in 88, I was gone most of the time, and I don’t think I ever got back down there.
For me, this image signifies times past in the Bay Area. I could see the port from my Dad’s house in the Oakland hills, albeit at some distance and a bit north of the (old) Bay Bridge. More than once I watched a carrier being maneuvered to dock side through binoculars. At the time of this photo, I was in Small Arms Repair School at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, so didn’t get to see the real deal.
Right. Let’s try including the link this time.
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/four-attack-aircraft-carriers-for-the-first-time-in-the-news-photo/517817156
During the 80’s I would ride my bike up there for Sunday skating in GG Park, when they banned vehicles. Took the bike because parking a car was very difficult, as parking space was a premium. But, bikes were encouraged to park on sidewalks up against the wall, to leave the streets for cars. Also, taking a car space might lend your bike to being damaged by an irate driver.
IIRC, late 80’s, I arrived at my typical area to park, and discovered the bike I was going to park near already had a ticket affixed. Seems the city decided that they were leaving money on the table by allowing bikes to park off street, so the cops were directed to write them up as blocking a sidewalk. Expensive. So, that was the end of my weekly visits in good weather. No more money spent there, pretty much. Idiots.