Ah, San Francisco. The city where good ideas go to die. As we’ve discussed repeatedly, the City by the Bay has been battling an epidemic of crime and homelessness for years. Residents with the means to do so have been fleeing in significant numbers. Drug abuse and alcohol addiction have been running rampant among the homeless population, but the city has come up with a plan to deal with that. It was recently revealed that they’ve been spending up to five million dollars per year to provide free shots of vodka and mugs of beer to homeless alcoholics. Who says that big cities can’t meet the needs of the people? (Daily Wire)
San Francisco is spending around $5 million a year to give vodka shots and glasses of beer to homeless people with severe alcohol addiction in an effort to cut down on calls to police and hospital stays, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.
The city’s “managed…