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‘Where’s the Recovery in All This?’:
SF Buying Beer, Vodka for Homeless Alcoholics
with Taxpayer Money

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Posted By: Beardo, 5/11/2024 8:05:44 PM

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.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: earlybird 5/11/2024 8:15:12 PM (No. 1716316)
To most native Californians, SF has always been a foreign country so little that happens there now surprises. It was an exotic place with great hotels like the Clift and wonderful restaurants like the elegant L'Etoile and the Tadich Grill. Ah, memories. No more
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Venturer 5/11/2024 8:17:51 PM (No. 1716319)
Next will be free fentanyl and marijuana for the addicted.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: scottj 5/11/2024 8:39:30 PM (No. 1716325)
It's hard to believe how stupid liberals are. How many people will lose their lives because liberals are stupid?
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Dreadnought 5/11/2024 8:47:34 PM (No. 1716326)
Decrease incidents? That makes sense because it accelerates their deaths from alcohol poisoning and liver failure.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter 5/11/2024 9:15:17 PM (No. 1716335)
...keep them from going outside to get it themselves... And that's how they intend to "keep the homeless off the streets” - in other words, the city will deliver said free beer and vodka to the encampments? What about the ones that don't like beer or vodka and drink only wine or bourbon?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: wweste 5/11/2024 9:38:15 PM (No. 1716344)
Where do I sign up as being dependent to get free bourbon?
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Reply 7 - Posted by: padiva 5/11/2024 9:38:48 PM (No. 1716346)
Isn't it wonderful that SF has a way to keep so many people on the city payroll?
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Reply 8 - Posted by: hershey 5/11/2024 10:20:15 PM (No. 1716363)
I always think Kalifornia can't get any more stupid,then they come up with something like this...
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Reply 9 - Posted by: DVC 5/12/2024 12:12:01 AM (No. 1716389)
Like feeding rats, soon enough you'll have millions more rats.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: JHHolliday 5/12/2024 12:34:20 AM (No. 1716394)
Well, this should really help the drunk bums become productive citizens (not). Maybe the SF pols think that will lock up the derelict vote. Their livers are so bad now that the NHL could use them for hockey pucks. Cirrhosis will thin the homeless ranks while drawing more victims for the free booze.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Muguy 5/12/2024 4:53:48 AM (No. 1716406)
Just warming them up for election day and a month-long ballot harvesting scheme-- like a pusher gving the addicts 'free' stuff to try to take control of them and their judgement to needing 'a little more' to get over the hump to quit... and then enslavement in the deepest parts of their souls
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Reply 12 - Posted by: mifla 5/12/2024 4:58:34 AM (No. 1716409)
Another day on the Left Coast. Stay away from the rest of us, you might be contagious.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: 5 handicap 5/12/2024 5:55:01 AM (No. 1716417)
Every other city in America ought to advertise: "FREE BOOZE IN SAN FRAN" and offer the interested a free one-way ticket!
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Reply 14 - Posted by: DiegoDude 5/12/2024 7:15:56 AM (No. 1716427)
Assisted suicide Cali style.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Krause 5/12/2024 7:18:54 AM (No. 1716429)
#3, look at all the people who HAVE lost their lives since Biden came into office.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Sgt. Stubby 5/12/2024 7:41:08 AM (No. 1716440)
Be sure to click on the Fox News "reported" blue hyperlink in the article for further disturbing details. And why do they always send the addicted and crazed to " arts" programs?? As an artist myself, I find that insulting. Send them to the Google, Apple and Amazon Big Tech corporations instead ... where they can have vodka cocktails, Frisbee tournaments and yoga classes all day long.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: RuckusTom 5/12/2024 8:43:02 AM (No. 1716473)
What about the coke addicts and paint sniffers? Free needles isn't working?
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Reply 18 - Posted by: VietVet68 5/12/2024 9:11:27 AM (No. 1716491)
Knowing how liberals operate is this just another vote buying scheme?
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Reply 19 - Posted by: Strike3 5/12/2024 9:26:20 AM (No. 1716508)
They are finally acting in the correct recommended communist way. Keep the masses drunk, stoned and stupid and they will do what you need them to do. Disgusting but not surprising at all. I hope Greasy Head gets all of the credit for this.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: Felixed 5/12/2024 10:44:32 AM (No. 1716551)
Ain't gonna entice me to live there until they also include free sex. Hmmm... how long before bags need packing?
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