Loaded Zone
Hoping for Change
Rather than tossing loose change into a panhandler’s empty cup, San Francisco officials want you instead to slide your spare quarters and nickels into a homeless meter.
...The bright orange meters, donated by the city’s Department of Parking and Traffic, will be scattered along places like Market Street and Van Ness Avenue that typically attract a steady stream of panhandlers every day.
“donated”??!?!?
..."Be a part of change. Don’t give change.”
..."I’d rather give it to a panhandler than put it in a meter personally,” [some damfool “community organizer"] said. “At least if you give it to them personally, you’re going to get a smile."
More likely you’ll get a snarl and a good cussing out.
I think they’d do better to demand bums pay to park their stinky carcasses on the street. Extra in a Poopin’ Zone.
[Previous proposals included:] ...place jars by cash registers in businesses and sell coupons for services that could then be handed over to panhandlers…
equip homeless people with credit-card machines like those used for retail purchases. People could swipe their cards and choose how much to donate, with 80 percent going to homeless programs and 20 percent to the individual panhandlers....
Dang near fool reason-proof, that is.
..."It’s not fair for the government to create this incredible level of poverty and then turn around to the rest of the community and say, ‘Harden your hearts and give the money to us,’ “ [another damfool] said. “Human beings when they see other human beings are going to give a little change, and that’s good.”
But Newsom asked doubters to keep an open mind. He said aggressive panhandling is by far the top complaint he hears from people.
Human beings when they see other human beings are approached by a spitting, swearing gesticulating mad man demanding their “spare change" are going to give a little change throw something at it to make it go away, and that’s good that’s scared.
there. fixed it.
Liberal lunacy doesn’t surprise me any more. I grew up in S.F. It was once a great city. But now, obviously, the loons are in charge.
One of the Swedish philosophers, some decades ago, suggested that they could solve the poverty program by just putting barrels of money on the streetcorners every day.
Is there really any basic difference between that plan and this? Except for who fills the barrels.
And of course it’s always government that creates this “incredible level of poverty”. It’s never the fact that 90% of these scroungers would rather scrounge than actually find work somewhere.
From the article:
“...Over the years, city leaders have struggled to curb the panhandling problem,...”
In the Old Days (early 1900s), if they found someone with “no visible means of support”, they’d just escort them to the city limits and counsel them on the inadvisability of returning.“...Newsom and his homelessness czar...”
I give up. They’re all bonkers.It reminded me of a Sherlock Holmes story:
Posted by ZZMike on 05/15/08 at 12:14 PMReally any basic difference between that plan hey found someone with “no visible means of support
Posted by lastminute spanien on 05/17/08 at 02:51 AM
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