WHAT A SHAME FOR SAN FRANCISCO
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9/10/2010
I moved to San Francisco, CA years ago. Even then, I felt it to be a small town with Big City attitudes. That didn't bother me, though; it was sort of "cute." I have managed to live in the Bay Area now for over 10 years and have never really felt it to be "home." Some say it's "beautiful," yet when you look up close, it is really not at all "beautiful." Very run down in a lot of areas. San Francisco makes a pretty picture on a postcard; that's about it. What is the most shameful and most depressing is the fact that the City has allowed the "Scum of the Earth" to take over. There are SO MANY useless people in S.F. today ... low lifers! So many people in S.F. don't work and don't want to work and don't intend on working--EVER. Why bother? The City supports so many useless people, it is disgusting. People who could easily work. It seems that every person who gets on a City bus flashes a "disabled" status card. So many people are "feeding" off of San Francisco's generousity, while the City is just flat broke. The filth of years prior to Mayor Gavin Newsom's term
has been SOMEWHAT cleaned up; i.e., at least trash is being picked up. The startling sight is the FILTHY sidewalks. Why don't they look like this in Los Angeles, Houston, Atlanta, D.C., Boston, Chicago, San Diego, Seattle, Portland, Denver? Why are their sidewalks as filthy as ours? It seems that S.F. needs to have the MARVELOUS workforce which we NOW have sweeping and picking up litter off of our grounds, streets, and, yes, sidewalks, literally WASH our sidewalks. I have wondered: WHO'S RESPONSIBILIY IS THIS AND WHY IS THIS FILTH NOT BEING "ADDRESSED"? If the responsibility is that of individual businesses, then, for goodness sake, please, SOMEONE from the City, GO OUT AND SPEAK WITH THESE BUSINESS OWNERS! ENCOURAGE THEM TO CLEAN THE SIDEWALKS OUTSIDE OF THEIR BUSINESSES. That along would help make San Francisco a much more comfortable place for me (at least)!
Bp | San Francisco, CA