Comments on: City of San Francisco joins Monday night rioters in their crusade against Weston Wear

By: Coolant

Coolant — Sun, 06 May 2012 20:36:56 +0000

DPW spokeswoman Gloria Chan called this “an isolated incident”
She’s lying.
Department of Public works has a number of taxpayer funded employees devoted solely to fining property and small business owners for the “crime “of having their property tagged.

“We had a citation warning taped up to the boards to have the graffiti removed within 30 days or we could be subject to fines”

This was DPW’s lightning fast response to the damage- these notices were issued the very next morning on each of the vandalized businesses, and is a prime example of Ed Lee’s take on funding- if someone slaps a sticker or paint on your property or small business YOU get fined.
The only reason these penalties were reversed was the attention and potential bad publicity. Several tax-payer funded employees from the Department of Public Works are roaming the city, adding financial injury to the insult of finding your property vandalized.
Ed Lee Gets It Done!
“It” = ripping off San Francisco taxpayers and small businesses.

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/05/03/sf-mayor-promises-changes-following-mission-vandalism/

By: roll with it

roll with it — Thu, 03 May 2012 22:58:17 +0000

Weston Wear – I promise to but something to support you. You guys have been in the Mission for a VERY long time. You are creative, interesting and good folks xxoo

By: Vic Wong

Vic Wong — Thu, 03 May 2012 22:31:51 +0000

Should be outta moderation now. Sorry bout that. Comments with links tend to get hung up.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Thu, 03 May 2012 20:48:36 +0000

D. Jon–Absolutely. Once my last comment gets out of the “awaiting moderation” stage, you’ll see some links of how the cost of maintaining these retirees and current employees is basically doubling in very short periods of time. So fast that there is absolutely no way, short of increasing sales tax to 100% and making MUNI cost $25/ticket, to keep up with the costs of supporting these people.

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 03 May 2012 20:14:21 +0000

Good first effort, but it could have used some kind of stratigraphy reference.

By: Tuffy

Tuffy — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:59:48 +0000

Except this seems to be a different set of fuckheads. I got the impression that these tags were on the boards they installed to cover the broken windows. Mayve I have my timeline off but I’m pretty sure what they got the notice for was unrelated to the riots.

By: Creep

Creep — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:58:41 +0000

Flow my tears, Dolores — your illiteracy is also not being charged!

By: Fiid

Fiid — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:54:33 +0000

Nicely put, my friend.

By: Siguanaba

Siguanaba — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:48:02 +0000

This is really unacceptable. What about the police? they are not being charged for its incompetence? THIS IS NOT JUSTICE!!!!

By: Vic Wong

Vic Wong — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:43:33 +0000

I think the criticism for them is implied. I mean, we already called them “fuckheads” a bunch of times in previous stories.

The point is that the damage is done and the city is slapping more salt on the wound.

By: D. Jon Moutarde

D. Jon Moutarde — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:22:58 +0000

Actually, MrEricSir, not so much citation needed if you are willing to use Google, the backbone of the information age!!!

Try this one: http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2011/06/19/guess-whats-the-average-san-francisco-city-pension/

For the record, I work full time, on my feet, in San Fransisco, and make about 24K NET. I have a health plan at work, minimal, but it helps.

I am a baby boomer and have more credit card debt than savings. Tell me how a situation with a buttload of city employees and an even bigger buttload of people like me could POSSIBLY be sustainable.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:01:19 +0000

Here’s the list of people getting a pension over 75k/yr: http://media.sfweekly.com/5513955.0.pdf

Here’s the database of people earning over 100k/yr: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/04/13/SFPay2009.DTL

“In fiscal year 1999-2000, the city spent about $300,000 on its retirement system. In fiscal year 2009-10, it was $200.5 million. Benefits alone — not salaries, just benefits — for current and retired employees this year are budgeted at $993 million. Spending on retirees’ health care and pensions is conservatively projected to triple within five years.”

Here’s the source link for that last one: http://www.sfweekly.com/2010-10-20/news/let-it-bleed/

I’ll say that again: “That shit is totally unsustainable.”

By: Ert O'Hara

Ert O'Hara — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:51:12 +0000

Monday night, after the mob destroyed all but a few windows in the storefronts of my apartment building, we had repair crews out front til 3am boarding up… and a woman across the street yelling at them to stop because it was noisy.

I think there are those of us who feel we are “in this together” and those who only think of themselves, and the latter tend to make things suck.

By: MrEricSir

MrEricSir — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:46:55 +0000

“That shit is totally unsustainable.”

[citation needed]

By: Lindsey

Lindsey — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:36:49 +0000

great point!