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| DATE | 2016-05-06 |
| FROM | Rick Moen
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] Fucking Tax EVERYTHING
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Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com):
> I don't want the city telling me how to shop and what bag I can use.
[...]
Yes, Jefferson died for your right to the desired shopping bag. Or he
died for something, anyway. Well, at least he died. There are
witnesses.
Listen, Ruben, bubeleh. I live at my residence with an only child, and
with the only-child daughter of that only child, to whom I am married.
If I wanted to hear an endless string of sentences starting with 'I
want' or 'I don't want', all I would need to do is go into the living
room.
I'm not married to you, and you aren't my mother-in-law: So, I don't
need to hear an endless string of 'I want' and 'I don't want' from you,
too.
> And SF SUCKS because of its over regulation. The homeless problem is
> all over the city....
You know why? Because asshole city managers in suburban hellholes
elsewhere in the Bay Area have a policy of flinging their homeless onto
a bus with a one-way ticket to San Frnacisco.
Tell me all about San Francisco's 'over regulation', Ruben. Oh, wait,
you can't, because you don't actually know much about that place at all,
whereas I lived there for a couple of decades. I'd say what is making
San Francisco suck is repeated sellouts to real estate interests, apathy
about the public good, and a string of corrupt and incompetent mayors.
(Corrupt and _competent_ is fine, e.g., Joe Alioto back in the 1960s,
who essentially ran the city as a wholly owned subsidiary of La Cosa
Nostra. Everything ran really smoothly.)
> ...and the drug infestation and free needle exchanges
> haves destroyed large swaths of a very small city, especially about
> Union Square and the tenderloin districts.
First, the only annoyance you're likely to run into right around Union
Square is bankers and foreign businessmen. Nobody in his right mind
goes to Union Square anyway, except during the winter when there's an
ice skating rink there. _West_ of Union Square is less like nowhere, as
there are actual working theatres including American Conservatory
Theater's Geary Theater.
Anyway, if you were spending time in Union Square, you were doing it
wrong. There's nothing there but pidgeons, an overpriced underground
garage, overpriced department stores on the south side (Needless
Markup... I mean Neiman Marcus, and Macy's among them) and overpriced
and mediocre hotels on the other sides including the Saint Francis
Hotel. Which means there's no reason to be there.
Second, the Tenderloin is the tacitly officially designated sin zone, a
few blocks of hookers, drug addicts, and very poor people (most often
recent immigrants) trying to scrape by. So, it's that way by design,
as a place where the bankers and foreign businessmen can go to get their
drugs or hookers without junking up the rest of the city.
I believe Boston ('Combat Zone') and possibly even that town of yours
have heard of the concept -- especially as San Francisco's Tenderloin
was named for the corresponding red light district in Manhattan, which
ran from 23rd Street to 42nd Street and from Fifth Avenue to Seventh
Avenue -- and was dismantled around WWI.
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