Bob Lee was a tech entrepreneur who was murdered at about 2:30 am in the Rincon Hill area downtown a couple of days ago (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/why-cash-app-bob-lee-stabbed-b2315205.html). He made Cash App. His fortune and murder were examples of how San Francisco has been occupied by a hostile city government to enable the pillaging of the public welfare, in order to enrich city workers and transient multi-millionaires and billionaires.
San Francisco crime is a top amenity for Marinites. Bob Lee was probably in the city getting cocaine from a dealer (read the FB comments on this thread)(https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/sf-neighborhood-bob-lee-killed-normally-quiet-17880713.php). SF loves cocaine. Jeff Adachi, former public defender, died of a heart attack after a cocaine binge (https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-Public-Defender-Jeff-Adachi-died-accidental-13710124.php). And anyhow, Bob Lee had already moved to Miami… why was he in the city? Former Mayor Ed Lee died of a heart attack at my Safeway and we'll never know if that was cocaine, natural causes, or heart attack weapon (
). You think that's paranoid? San Francisco City Government administrates a $14 billion + budget per year. That's a global corporation sized entity.
So Bob Lee was in that group of tech guys who used the city government to get freebies, felt guilty and super-empowered the homeless industrial complex, and then left town leaving locals with the bill. San Francisco homeless are not natives. They are transient drug addicts who move to SF to get closer to the supply hub. The district attorney does not prosecute criminals, Chesa Boudin (burn in hell) or otherwise (https://nypost.com/2022/09/13/latino-sfpd-cop-branded-racist-for-arresting-hispanic-drug-dealers/). So the cops don't arrest them. So they make tent cities and have a drug/knife party. So they take up all of SF General's resources to the point that insurers will not accept SF General—our default emergency room, even if you're right next to another hospital—so poor fuckers who wind up there get hit with the entire bill, after nearly dying (https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/SF-General-s-insured-patients-suffer-further-13543542.php). I have a note in my pocket commanding EMS to either take me to MY hospital, or leave me in the street to die. I'd rather die than bankrupt everyone I love with an SF General bill. That's what the SF Homeless Industrial complex has done to a normal tax paying citizen: I'd rather die than have my heirs lose everything to pay the homeless industrial complex more money.
Ordinary San Franciscans get attacked literally every day (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/san-francisco-reports-major-rise-anti-asian-hate-crimes-rcna13585). It's why everyone who can afford it in my neighborhood hits the gym (muscle is its own martial art) or they do a literal martial arts (https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/n6b8dw/how_bad_have_the_asian_hate_crimes_been_at_sf/). And since the cops in my neighborhood don't respond to calls, most of the crime that goes on goes unreported. And the city likes it that way.
For San Francisco, we have a city budget that goes completely to homeless and the ultra-rich. They are monsters. I'm having a blood pressure moment as I reread the current budget for SF. (https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2022-06/Mayor%27s%20June%201%20Proposed%20Budget%20Book_0.pdf)(Page 56)
Community Health: $2.764 BILLION
Goes to homeless and illegal immigrants. Nothing for tax payers. This goes to subsidize city-connected clinics staffed by well paid employees who give services to transients. 1/6 of the city's budget. They could literally pay for half of every citizen's health insurance premium with that money ($287/mo), but then that would actually help citizens. Can't have that!
Public Works, Transportation, Commerce: $4.4 BILLION
Remember that guy who sprayed a homeless woman with water and now he's canceled? They spend 1/3 of the city budget on graft for billionaires, corrupt city workers (https://www.ktvu.com/news/former-san-francisco-public-works-head-mohammed-nuru-sentenced-to-7-years) and even though the tax base has declined, THEY INCREASED COLLECTED REVENUES! MUNI is free for the homeless, who sleep on it and make it dangerous. It takes an hour to go 1.5 miles from West Portal Station to San Francisco State University. And commerce? Surely they can't be talking about the permitting process which can take years. And meanwhile, you'd better be paying your lease on the space where you can't even sell anything or do business.
Public Protection: $1.696 BILLION
Bob Lee was well protected, wasn't he? (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/05/technology/cash-app-founder-stabbed-san-francisco.html) So was I when the cops almost shot me on my own property under false pretenses.
So is everybody who walks downtown, right? The district attorney doesn't prosecute crimes. Look at what happened in Vancouver: their city asserted 'we own the streets. You cannot camp on them,' and trashed the homeless tents. (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vpd-encampment-removal-1.6802439). By contrast, large portions of the city have become no-go areas. I'm a martial artist with 33 years of experience and I stay away from every crunchy area in the city now. Most of the city's crime problems could be solved if the cops and district attorneys just did their jobs.
Human Welfare & Neighborhood 'Development': $2.6 BILLION
The homeless who are not from SF are now taking up more of the city budget than the school system, which is of course only interested in educating illegal immigrant children and the poorer San Franciscans and then doing a terrible job of it. Look up the San Francisco school lottery system for more sick info (https://www.sfusd.edu/schools/enroll/student-assignment-policy/student-assignment-changes). The homeless budget was $150 million 20 years ago when there were 3000 'official' homeless in the city. Now there are 6000 official 'homeless' and the city justifies $433,333 in spending for EACH of them, just from this line item. Homeless are used as the pretext to rip off the tax payer.
$11.46 billion to help the 20% of poor people in San Francisco, 160,000 of them, or $71,625 a person. Should I talk about the way the pension system works in SF which bakes in a huge salary cost per hire? The way it's virtually impossible to fire a city worker? They are pension pirates. Most of that money goes to pensions and salaries.
Do you like how SF is the richest major city per capita in the USA and it's spending billions on its poorest and they stay poor, and the government workers stay employed? San Francisco city government is a tool designed to steal money from citizens and pay government employees exorbitant salaries and to create problems, for the enrichment of the ultra-rich and city workers. They are motherfuckers, trash, shitheads, lazy-fucks, and degenerate morons. They are voted in by short term residents who use the city as a petri dish for every horrible idea they ever heard in college. On one end, liberal idiots squeeze us. On the other end, ultra-rich squeeze us. Normal San Franciscans always vote against entrenched city powers, and only the ultra-rich, the gullible, $180k salary 'socialists', criminals, poor transients who hope to get some of that city money, and city workers vote to support the existing system. Someone I've done business with who lives in Napa likes to work off her guilt by spending her money to lobby the city to spend more on the homeless—so they don't bother her and her family up in Napa of course (and if you're reading this and you know it's you, don't get scandalized, rebut the numbers). Old people, families with children, business owners, clans, and sane people vote against the city government. We, who most would consider 'normal people' are completely ripped off by the place. Move out? Fuck you. You move. That's what I thought. And you want to be self-righteous even as your local bills are paid with San Francisco money? We are the biggest tax exporter in the nation per capita. Your local finances depend on San Francisco ripping off its locals. So don't get self-righteous with me, dead-ass.
I have to be careful what I write, because I know way more secrets than this. You should assume that the city is a place where petty monsters will try to zero you out. People with secrets in SF save them for Mutually Assured Destruction, for the city's players all operate on MAD. Why launch your missiles when you might need them later? Does it look crazy? It's even crazier than it looks. If I didn't value my own hide, I'd share even more dirty SF secrets. But I have to keep my submarine submerged and save my missiles for a clear and present danger. SF is another data point proving that the US government exists to pillage the citizens and that government workers act like Ancien Régime First and Second Estate fuckos who think there will never be any blowback. Well London Breed, you just remember what happened to Louis XVI and keep in mind that you don't have the divine right of kings covering your corrupt ass. And if Louis XVI is inadequate, recall what happened to Bob Lee: you think your life is so great one moment, and then next, you're begging for help from a stranger who leaves you to die in the street. I used to be a hippie. I used to help strangers. Now, I might as well be the guy who drove off.
PS: Consider this essay a corollary to yesterday’s