Conservative Tree House: Over at Stella’s Place she mentioned the Poop Patrol in San Francisco. It has salary and benefits worth $184,687. The article from Zero Hedge reveals the following figures.
- A $72.5 million-a-year street cleaning budget
- $12 million a year on what essentially have become housekeeping services for homeless encampments
- $2.8 million for a Hot Spots crew to wash down the camps and remove any biohazards
- $2.3 million for street steam cleaners
- $3.1 million for the Pit Stop portable toilets
- $364,000 for a four-member needle team
- An additional $700,000 set aside for a 10-member, needle cleanup squad, complete with it’s own minivan
This article, combined with some deragatory comments I saw on Quora a few weeks ago made me reflect a little bit. This is from my comment over at Stella’s.
No joke at all, I’m betting that 180,000 plus dollars in SF would not come close to giving me the standard of living I enjoy in my dot on the map that elites turn their noses up at.
I saw one of those stupid comments from liberals a few weeks ago about the “proof” that we who lived in red states are really lower IQ, hicks, unsophisticated, yada yada, on and on. I have to give it to them, they named off several truths about things we don’t have, including mass transit, availability of goods and services, etc. plus more crap stuff that they made up in their tiny minds.
Here is the thing though. I don’t want a bus to pull up at the end of my driveway. I don’t want a train passing my house. I don’t give two craps about how far away Whole Foods is. I actually do go to plays occasionally, as well as other forms of entertainment both high and low brow. I’m just fine driving a ways to enjoy them. I have been known to drive even a couple of hours to go to a museum. It didn’t kill me.
I really, really don’t give a hoot that there is no college in my town. There are some good ones in all four directions, two of which are only a half hour away. Also, news flash, I could go online and get educated by some top universities. Or I could go online and learn a new language, refresh my calculus skills, learn to play a guitar, or how to knit. MORE
In my town the only poop that people have to worry about is from the dairy cows when the farmers spread it on their fields. The smell goes away in a day or two.
They are wrong on the I.Q, this is really just a conversation about which one is Preferred, Tight with others or Wide open more Private living.
No need to compete, if I like Berries and they like Chocolate
you cant say their isnt a conspiracy. There has to be. Nobody walking this planet is stupid enough to want to spend this kind of money on something so easily fixed.
Yes, please.
I want to add this.
When you live isolated or in a small town which self isolates, you can get left a Decade behind others who are more involved in current Life happenings.
if you are in need of a Human Poop Patrol the best thing the ‘Patrol’ needs to do it stick a foot up the ass of any ‘Human’ that has the temerity to poop in the street to begin with!
… you either encourage certain behavior, or make an effort to change it … your choice
J.Brennan could use a Job.
The last thing I would ever do is attempt to compare my life with that of a liberal…..there simply is no comparison.
Crapping in public isn’t illegal, it’s simply undocumented…
Truncheons are cheaper.
And they work.
Gee Wally, dat’s some ‘spensive shit! Someone needs to bottle it and sell it on CNN.
Yeah Beave, and the people over there promoting it are known as Fool Samples…
Ahhh, the good old days when all you had to watch for was dog poop off the curb!