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2024-05-12 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

San Francisco is giving taxpayer-funded shots of vodka to homeless alcoholics in $5m/year program

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

Program provides beer and vodka shots to homeless alcoholics

Aims to curb excessive drinking among the homeless and prevent deaths

Despite criticisms about enabling addiction, officials argue it saves money

Posted by Skidmark 2024-05-12 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11189 views ] Top

#1 "It saves money". Get away from saving money and get a profit center. Think Soylent Green.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2024-05-12 00:47|| 2024-05-12 00:47|| Front Page Top

#2 I think he meant to say it saves them money, then it makes sense. Or he's an idiot.

Posted by Raj 2024-05-12 01:17|| 2024-05-12 01:17|| Front Page Top

#3 A slow euthanasia?

Posted by Grom the reflective 2024-05-12 01:23|| 2024-05-12 01:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Hairy dog approach to life.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2024-05-12 04:03|| 2024-05-12 04:03|| Front Page Top

Posted by Skidmark 2024-05-12 12:04|| 2024-05-12 12:04|| Front Page Top

Posted by Jack+Creanter7508 2024-05-12 14:27|| 2024-05-12 14:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Nobody tell the Russians.

Posted by Grom the reflective 2024-05-12 14:30|| 2024-05-12 14:30|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm not an alcoholic, homeless, or a counselor to alcoholics. I thought even one drink for an alcoholic was too many.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2024-05-12 15:36|| 2024-05-12 15:36|| Front Page Top

#9 I don’t want to be a naysayer, but serving a homeless man a free of vodka does not prevent the homeless man from finding more alcohol someplace else. Maybe the program includes some DMV bureaucracy to waste a bunch of his time.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-05-12 15:50|| 2024-05-12 15:50|| Front Page Top

#10 Fancy talk for 'Homeless Male Prostitutes visit Pelosi Residence'.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-05-12 16:49|| 2024-05-12 16:49|| Front Page Top

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