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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

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-05-12 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1818 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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