Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How stupid are you to actually give money to these people?? Grow a backbone and walk on by!

LOL +100

OP, what the heck is wrong with you? 20 bucks? Oh my.

Lol!!! Right??? Someone trying to help four people and two dogs what idiot assholes! Seriously they must be so stupid how do they function?! I mean like wtf is wrong with them?!?! LOL!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How stupid are you to actually give money to these people?? Grow a backbone and walk on by!

LOL +100

OP, what the heck is wrong with you? 20 bucks? Oh my.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

Anonymous wrote:How stupid are you to actually give money to these people?? Grow a backbone and walk on by!

LOL +100

OP, what the heck is wrong with you? 20 bucks? Oh my.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had a similar.experience when.I went to SF two years.ago. I couldn't stand it. I've visited and lived in several major cities - NY and LA -'and never saw anything like it. Even in Portland where the youth drug culture is.prevalent, the aggressiveness on the street was something I only experienced in SF.

I worked in NY before Gulianni cleaned it up. Where do you think all the homeless went? It was not as if all of a sudden there were programs and services and they had a place in NY to go to.

This is not from a displaced homeless population. Thus is an entire culture of young people that for the most part have no reason to be homeless except by choice.

Liberals

Anonymous wrote:It's not like DC doesn't have its own issues. Large homeless populations in parks just blocks from the WH. So very sad. America in a nutshell, I guess.

this is so way beyond anything in DC

We have the whole gutter punk culture here in Austin too, but in the summer it is too hot to live on the streets without dying of heatstroke, so most of them travel to San Francisco or Seattle where the climate is milder in the summer. With cities like Chicago or NYC you won't see them in the winters for the same reason. Dan Savage describes it as "slow motion suicide" in one of his books--the birth mother of his son lived that lifestyle and wanted an open adoption, so they navigated some tricky issues relating to explaining homelessness to a young child,

Don't give cash to the homeless. I spend a lot of time and money working with homeless charities. If I'm asked for cash by a homeless person, or a person pretending to be homeless on the street, I say "Sorry, I don't have any cash."

Hasn't anyone else here read about affluent beggars? Hell, one of them posted here a few years ago explaining why they do it.

A former Tenderloin resident gives his insider's take on the situation (humorous and sobering):

http://youtu.be/LiWgDyvmGh0

Anonymous wrote:I had a similar.experience when.I went to SF two years.ago. I couldn't stand it. I've visited and lived in several major cities - NY and LA -'and never saw anything like it. Even in Portland where the youth drug culture is.prevalent, the aggressiveness on the street was something I only experienced in SF.

I worked in NY before Gulianni cleaned it up. Where do you think all the homeless went? It was not as if all of a sudden there were programs and services and they had a place in NY to go to.

It's not like DC doesn't have its own issues. Large homeless populations in parks just blocks from the WH. So very sad. America in a nutshell, I guess.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Intro?

What do you see in your future? (Long pause) Ummm...(awkward grin)..."A hot dog, definitely a hot dog."

But, how can this be happening? I thought CA and, of course, SF were liberal Utopias? Why would law and order be required?

Anonymous wrote:

Intro?

Anonymous wrote:I had a similar.experience when.I went to SF two years.ago. I couldn't stand it. I've visited and lived in several major cities - NY and LA -'and never saw anything like it. Even in Portland where the youth drug culture is.prevalent, the aggressiveness on the street was something I only experienced in SF.

Thats just it. So aggressive and spread out all over the city and all through the parks. There are an overwhelming amount of them in a relatively small area.