Shelter alone is not the answer for most of the people we see. They have severe mental disorders and/or drug addiction. To begin they need 24 hour treatment In the meantime we watch our city slip away. People and businesses avoid downtown; it is unsafe. Our mayor doesn’t seem to get it. We need a better plan. The mayor of San Francisco knows what to do. Going to Europe is not the answer. Visit San Francisco and learn; it’s cheaper and more relevant to the issues we have here.
Clear, concise, and IMHO spot on about what is needed and what is currently impeding it.
But what got me the most was when he was talking about sticking your hand over a burning fire just as the street car comes behind with “Human-Caused Wildfires” behind him. While not the precise analogy he was using (nor the intent of the ad behind him), we keep sticking our hand over our own human-caused wildfire. It keeps hurting us and we keep doing the same thing again and again, rather than working to contain it.
“Pain is a good thing… you have to create some resistance, some reason to motivate people…”.
SO TRUE and so well said!
The only pain the Social Justice Warrior crowd and the Homeless Industrial Complex can tolerate is to the long-suffering, law abiding taxpayers who have been expected to uncomplainingly foot ever increasing bills for the privilege of living in filthy, unsafe neighborhoods overrun by addicts, the mentally ill and marked by unhindered criminality. They depend on our compassion, naïveté and gullibility to keep their gig going and so far we’ve obliged. It’s been 10 years since Mayor Hales declared a “Homeless State of Emergency” and things are as bad as ever.
Thank you for giving Jim Rice a public forum. He’s the voice for common sense.
We all need to continue contacting city hall directly on this - it’s unacceptable and they have to stop ignoring everyone. The district 4 council is up for reelection already next year and not one of them deserves to sit in those seats again if this shelter continues to grow and destroy the neighborhood. If the mayor continues on this ignorant path, he deserves to be recalled.
The neighborhood overwhelmingly does not want this shelter for obvious and logical reasons - large capacity overnight shelters do not need to be imbedded directly into high density neighborhoods full of shopfronts. Did anyone read the rather depressing article in Willamette Week today regarding this shelter and the current state of the Pearl? The city (not just the Pearl) is only going to continue circling the drain as long as they keep prioritizing homeless drug addicts over every other person who lives and works here. Please, continue to make a lot of noise.
You are so right! This city and county have been hell-bent on catering to the wants and desires of drug addicts and the untreated mentally ill and other social misfits, rather than keeping our city safe and functional for those who follow rules and pay the bills. Much of this has been politically motivated by our leaders to appease the loudest enablers of addiction and the most vocal opponents of law enforcement, public safety and civil commitments. We know who they are.
Thus, in some neighborhoods we have ubiquitous squatting on our streets and sidewalks, myriads of unlicensed RVs, cars and vans, open smoking of fentanyl, garbage, needles and even human feces. Depending on where I am, I see this every day as I’m sure you do, and it’s maddening.
Shelter alone is not the answer for most of the people we see. They have severe mental disorders and/or drug addiction. To begin they need 24 hour treatment In the meantime we watch our city slip away. People and businesses avoid downtown; it is unsafe. Our mayor doesn’t seem to get it. We need a better plan. The mayor of San Francisco knows what to do. Going to Europe is not the answer. Visit San Francisco and learn; it’s cheaper and more relevant to the issues we have here.
Clear, concise, and IMHO spot on about what is needed and what is currently impeding it.
But what got me the most was when he was talking about sticking your hand over a burning fire just as the street car comes behind with “Human-Caused Wildfires” behind him. While not the precise analogy he was using (nor the intent of the ad behind him), we keep sticking our hand over our own human-caused wildfire. It keeps hurting us and we keep doing the same thing again and again, rather than working to contain it.
You saw something I didn't notice. Good job.
“Pain is a good thing… you have to create some resistance, some reason to motivate people…”.
SO TRUE and so well said!
The only pain the Social Justice Warrior crowd and the Homeless Industrial Complex can tolerate is to the long-suffering, law abiding taxpayers who have been expected to uncomplainingly foot ever increasing bills for the privilege of living in filthy, unsafe neighborhoods overrun by addicts, the mentally ill and marked by unhindered criminality. They depend on our compassion, naïveté and gullibility to keep their gig going and so far we’ve obliged. It’s been 10 years since Mayor Hales declared a “Homeless State of Emergency” and things are as bad as ever.
Thank you for giving Jim Rice a public forum. He’s the voice for common sense.
We all need to continue contacting city hall directly on this - it’s unacceptable and they have to stop ignoring everyone. The district 4 council is up for reelection already next year and not one of them deserves to sit in those seats again if this shelter continues to grow and destroy the neighborhood. If the mayor continues on this ignorant path, he deserves to be recalled.
The neighborhood overwhelmingly does not want this shelter for obvious and logical reasons - large capacity overnight shelters do not need to be imbedded directly into high density neighborhoods full of shopfronts. Did anyone read the rather depressing article in Willamette Week today regarding this shelter and the current state of the Pearl? The city (not just the Pearl) is only going to continue circling the drain as long as they keep prioritizing homeless drug addicts over every other person who lives and works here. Please, continue to make a lot of noise.
You are so right! This city and county have been hell-bent on catering to the wants and desires of drug addicts and the untreated mentally ill and other social misfits, rather than keeping our city safe and functional for those who follow rules and pay the bills. Much of this has been politically motivated by our leaders to appease the loudest enablers of addiction and the most vocal opponents of law enforcement, public safety and civil commitments. We know who they are.
Thus, in some neighborhoods we have ubiquitous squatting on our streets and sidewalks, myriads of unlicensed RVs, cars and vans, open smoking of fentanyl, garbage, needles and even human feces. Depending on where I am, I see this every day as I’m sure you do, and it’s maddening.