Re: Influx of non-San Franciscans living on SF streets, data shows

On 8/6/24 11:31, Governor Swill wrote:

On Mon, 5 Aug 2024 21:50:28 -0700, Bobbie Sellers <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com>
wrote:
 

On 8/5/24 19:55, Governor Swill wrote:

On Sun, 4 Aug 2024 22:49:19 -0700, Bill Pfister <nobody@there.org> wrote:
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The problem is Pelosi and Newsom. Those two have done more to ruin
California than any other politicians.

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You say that, but you never say why.  You can never point to specific laws and policies
attributable to them that caused whatever issue you're railing about.
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#nevertrump

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Yes well neither prevented the housing crisis in affordability nor
solved the homeless problem. They also failed to reinforce all the
dams, bridges and highways in California against the horrible weather
of climate change. They did not totally solve the pollution due to
fracking or shut down the  Methane leaks near Los Angeles.

 Much better, thank you for being on the ball!  That said, these issues are happening all
across the country so they're not California specific.
 

They especially Newsom failed to overcome the pumping
of water from the aquifer of the Central Valley which has
provided the water to replace water sent to Southern California
to fill the swimming pools of the residents of exclusive
neighborhoods.

 Too much money to fight.  Interestingly, a lot of big ag companies buy/farm land less for
the food production profits than for the right to pump and sell from aquifer.
 

The could not figure out a way to beat Trump in 2016.

 Trump won in 2016 on a fluke, a clever management of the EC by the RNC.
 

Of course Pelosi was a congressional representative and not
doing much in California and Newsom was just the successor
to Jerry Brown who served non-consequentially 8 terms in total
4 in my youth and 4 in my old age. He did not make many bad
decisions and his career was only marred by the idea that
  he was a good fiscally conservative Democrat.  Which
was the only real problem with Newsom and with Pelosi.
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But those are negligible problems.
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What has done the most to ruin California was real estate
promotions in the 20th Century and property speculation especially
in the San Francisco area. Someone failed to prevent WW II and as
a result many troops got to visit California and did their best
to move here bringing along racist attitudes from where ever they
came from. Then they had children raised them to adulthood and
they had more children and that is the root of the problems
of California. Too many of us love it though with the Global
Heating it may become much less attractive. Not to say we
did not have plenty of California grown racists already. The worst
prejudice I saw in my childhood was directed at immigrants from
other US States mainly Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Texas.

 So we come to your last paragraph where you say without equivocation, that California's
biggest problems had nothing to do with Pelosi or Newsom.  You blame them on events that
happened three quarters of a century ago, to times before either of them was born.  Don't
forget the massive dust bowl migration to California in the nineteen thirties.
 #nevertrump

I do not leave out the Dust Bowl migration and maybe my father was part of it. He died in 1939 when I was only 2 and 1/3 years old so
I never got to question him about his life he was a WW I veteran.
I remember his burial in the National Cemetary at the Presidio of
San Francisco on cold and goggy day My mother was murdered in
1983 and is now on the other side of his headstone. They identified
the murderer recently and he may go to trial later this year. He
was already in prison for I think attemped murder but is not
confined to a wheelchair.
Father was work working as a cook/restaurant owner
in Project City as Shasta Dam was being built.  My mother
met my Stepfather as the both worked on the sandwich line
for the workers.
My mother's Father never held  a job in my memory
but took care of me while Mom was working and I remember him
escorting me across town in Redding or Chico to nursery or
kindergarten run by Catholic nuns.  We had to wait at a
railway crossing as trains crammed with American troops
went by.
At that time Mom, I and my Grandfather were living
in a boarding house and I early on developed my distinctive
"Boarding House reach".
So while I forget a lot of tiny details still
I remember a lot about my childhood in Northern California.
Including frosty mugs of Root Beer sold out of a window on a
busy street.
Oh and about drugs we knew very little but avoided
them until about 38 years later aside from alcohol.
bliss - Leo with Leo rising born in the year of the Ox.
which makes me somthing like griffin.
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