ATTENTION LIBERALS!!! Bravo for Gavin Newsom!

"No way ..." you say? Somebody broke into RMW's site and hacked that headline.

Nope ... this is RMW, and I am completely within my mind (albeit, it has been a very long couple of days ... as I could see by some of my rather shrill responses on some other blogs). I am dedicating a report to give massive kudos to Mayor Gavin Newsom, left wing leader of San Freak-sisco.

Well, OK ... I am only doing this for one particular reason ... his acutely "conservative" (more like Evangelical Christian) new program for dealing with the homeless of that once great city.

Some background ... many moons ago, on a few boondoggles for work, I had the distinct pleasure of staying in one of the top tourist destinations of the world. I had a blast, enjoyed some of the best food around ... jumped in the rental and headed to the amazingly beautiful shorelines along US 1, chowed down WAY too much seafood on the wharf ... etc. etc. etc. Loved it so much I hauled my bride there and we had another awesome week in Monterey and SF ... some of the best times, food, and fun we have ever had.

Needless to say, when (in the last few years) my consulting travels were to take me to San Fran after a long time away, I was really looking forward to it ... so much so that I decided to stay over the weeked (2 week gig).

Man, and I mean MAN ... did that place change. It was a total cesspool ... just disgusting ... the last place on earth I would take a vacation at. NOTE: I was staying in a 5 star hotel, in a great part of town. But the vagrants had taken over the city and rendered it into a literal toilet ... you would walk out the door of the hotel and the smell of human waste was overwhelming ... and on the two block walk to work, I had to tiptoe around the fresh piles of human feces on the sidewalk in front of Saks 5th Avenue. I was dumbfounded.

Commuting through the city was like running a guantlet of agressive beggars ... don't dare open your windows (not like you would anyway given the smell) ... there was a bum at every corner and sometimes several at midblock. Even the wharf, where one might imagine the cops might run off these people to keep from driving off the tourists, had a good amount (albeit not nearly so many as downtown).

It became obvious to me as to why ... when walking to work one day I noticed one of those 'free' newspapers ... geared toward the advocacy for the homeless ... and when I read an article or two (just about all I could stomach) that virtually worshiped these souls, I realized that there was likely a huge industry that shamefully exploited the plight of the homeless for their own personal gain.

In my further travels ... I ended up in New York, which I had heard bad things about but never actually witnessed. I was shocked at how "clean" it was ... no bums, no hookers, no drug addicts, ... none of the type of stuff I was supposed to expect. I remarked about this and the SF situation to a friend (lifelong resident of the Bronx), who reflected that NYC was exactly like SF before Guiliani came in and cleaned things up.

Well, it sounds like Newsom is working toward that end. In the report tonight, Shepherd Smith of FoxNews reported on Newsom's program to help the homeless WITHOUT GIVING THEM MONEY. It is something along the lines of provding housing and food stamps, but NEVER money.

WOW!!! And this guy is the same whacko that broke CA laws by trying to unilaterally declare homosexual marriage legal?

What was really worth it though, was to hear how he was being hammered by the welfare / socialist pimps ... stuff I thought was exclusively reserved for Republicans ... heartless, cruel, etc.

And Newsom himself ... I almost dropped my dinner ... acknowledging that his critics are the ones who make huge bucks advocating for the homeless ... he discussed an entire industry around this thing. And he pointed out that these "advocates" (his term) / poverty pimps (my term) were in essence lying about the real numbers. He even talked about the fact that "they" have spent billions for this and have accomplished nothing (I am not kidding, he really said "they"!!!).

Holy cow ... are we sure this guy is not a Republican? Sounds like a right wing fanatic to me (at least by the Kennedy standard, which is apparently the mainstream of the modern Democrat party).


What more can I say??? Other than I hope and pray that he continues to be successful! The cruel, inhumane policies of the liberal democrat establishment to sustain these hopeless souls on the street must end. All the money we have pissed away, making a lot of fat cat socialists rich while they guarantee that the homeless stay exactly where they are (otherwise, how do we keep the money flowing)? I mean think about it ... what kind of insane policy is it to put money in the hands of a derelict that has already proved that they cannot handle money???

And trust me ... the money we give to the homeless is a tiny fraction of the total we (as taxpayers) spend ... the vast majority ends up in the pockets of the bureaucrats and poverty pimps.

Thank God that a liberal finally gets it. Lets hope that a lot more do.