WHAT COULD GO WRONG? San Francisco Using Tax Dollars to Buy Vodka and Beer for Homeless Alcoholics:
The city of San Francisco is using tax dollars to buy vodka and beer for homeless alcoholics. Who thought this was a good idea?
Aside from the issue of using tax dollars to do this, how is this good for the homeless alcoholics? Shouldn’t the goal be to get these people off the street and into treatment?
How are these people helped by the city feeding their addiction?
Homeless alcoholics are getting free beer and vodka under a taxpayer-funded pilot program in San Francisco as city leadership grapples with the homelessness crisis plaguing its streets.
The city’s Department of Public Health runs the Managed Alcohol Program (MAP) to give doses of alcohol to the addicted, Fox News reported on Saturday.
Officials hope the program will “keep the homeless off the streets” and decrease incidents in which emergency services have to step in.
“Experts say the program can save or extend lives, but critics wonder if the government would be better off funding treatment and sobriety programs instead,” Fox noted.
@yohanan California has such great weather and beautiful land. It used to be called the Golden State. So sad that the “liberals” have messed it up. Get away from the big cities, and there are still a lot of decent people there. “Liberal” is a misnomer for these crazy control freaks that run the state. So sad.
@erby Driving through the central valley on the 5 freeway and you'd think you were in the heart of the Bible belt. The billboards are very Christian-centric. The liberals really have destroyed a beautiful place with their idiotic policies.
