Articles like this are almost impossible to read, so steel yourself. From Natasha Anderson at dailymail.co.uk:
- James, a self-proclaimed junkie living in San Francisco, says the city’s soft-on-crime policies and government assistance make it ‘easy’ to be homeless
- He shared how he receives $620 cash and 200 food stamps each month while he sells Narcan to addicts and enjoys streaming services on his phone
- ‘This right now is literally by choice, literally by choice. If we’re going to be realistic, they pay you to be homeless here,’ James said
- San Francisco is plagued by drug addiction and homelessness
- Mayor London Breed recently launched an emergency campaign to crackdown on open air drug use and drug dealing in the city’s crime-ravaged downtown Tenderloin neighborhood
- The city also opened a new linkage center that connects homeless addicts with rehab facilities on January 18
- Meanwhile, President Biden also aims to battle drug addiction with his $30million grant program intending to provide funds to nonprofits and local governments to make drug use safer, to advance ‘racial equity.
A self-proclaimed’ old-school junkie’ who moved from Texas to San Francisco because ‘it’s f*****g easy’ to be homeless there claims he’s being paid by the city government to live on the streets, getting $620 in cash per month and hundreds of food stamps while he sells Narcan and enjoys Amazon Prime and Netflix on his phone.
‘This right now is literally by choice, literally by choice. If we’re going to be realistic, they pay you to be homeless here,’ James, a homeless man with face tattoos who has been living in San Francisco since June, told Michael Shellenberger, author of ‘San Fransicko,’ a book about how the city’s progressive leaders are worsening homelessness, inequality and crime.
Gosh, that was a shocking read.
It tells us so much about the lack of the concept of civilization and the casual acceptance of this deficiency by those in authority who one thought would know better.