Quit That Job and Earn $185k… Cleaning Up San Francisco’s Notoriously Crappy Sidewalks
25th August 2018
If, of course, that’s what you want to do.
Rather than invest much more in homeless shelters or free mental health services or needle exchanges or anything that would require having to deal with smelly, dirty, poor people, the city has set aside an additional $2.8m for a “Hot Spots” crew to spray down the areas where these people live, an additional $2.3m for street cleaners, another $3.1m for portable toilets and – this is the best part – nearly $1m a year for a so-called “Poop Patrol.”
Creating government jobs for correcting a government-caused problem FDR would be so proud.
Next up: Paying people to dig holes and then fill them in again.