Comments on: Get Back to Basics http://actlocallysf.org/blog/talkingpoints/2007/04/19/get-back-to-basics/ Just another actlocallysf.org weblog Sat, 17 May 2008 08:41:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 by: Hillary Theimer http://actlocallysf.org/blog/talkingpoints/2007/04/19/get-back-to-basics/#comment-381 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:04:21 +0000 http://actlocallysf.org/blog/talkingpoints/2007/04/19/get-back-to-basics/#comment-381 i could not get a paid job in San Francisco when i lived there years ago. I went to interviews, but someone else always got it because it was so competitive. someone who had more experience and a masters degree or higher always got the job ahead of me. it made me furious. now i live in AZ and there are tons of jobs here. i actually got a job last week. yea! i am supposed to start training in a week. theres gotta be a way to have people be able to get jobs for who they are, not whether they have a masters or phd or not. Hillary Theimer<ul><li><label>Overall Rating</label>: 10</li> </ul> i could not get a paid job in San Francisco when i lived there years ago. I went to interviews, but someone else always got it because it was so competitive. someone who had more experience and a masters degree or higher always got the job ahead of me. it made me furious. now i live in AZ and there are tons of jobs here. i actually got a job last week. yea! i am supposed to start training in a week. theres gotta be a way to have
people be able to get jobs for who they are, not whether they have a masters or phd or not.
Hillary Theimer
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]]> by: Stuart Smith http://actlocallysf.org/blog/talkingpoints/2007/04/19/get-back-to-basics/#comment-328 Fri, 04 May 2007 01:46:48 +0000 http://actlocallysf.org/blog/talkingpoints/2007/04/19/get-back-to-basics/#comment-328 Thanks for your response to the Examiner editorial and congratulations to your staff writers who did a good job of spinning it to read better than it is. My grandparents, parents, brothers and their kids have lived in San Francisco for much longer than a century and I'm not going to tell you what San Francisco WAS like, but I feel depressed and degraded by what is IS today. I've lived in many parts of this diverse, wonderful city and for the last 19 years I've lived two blocks west of Union Square in a lovely Cooperative. Today my neighborhood is under assault by petty criminals who are shooting up and crashing on at least two corners within a block of my home, people urinating, passing out, hooking, vandalizing, applying graffiti, aggressively panhandling, harassing residents and tourists alike, screaming and shouting and breaking car windows as well as parking illegally and it takes an act of congress to get the attention of someone to stop it. I support your programs borrowed from New York City and Chicago to create and staff community courts that prosecute these people. All crime is against the law, and for too long only those with jobs are being held accountable for the things they do that erode the quality of life all of us deserve. Homelessness, addiction and alcoholism and mental illness aren't crimes, but that population seems to be responsible for almost 90% of the quality of life crime that robs all of us of the quality of life we each deserves. I've publicly offered my services to make this plan a reality and I reiterate that offer. Please accept all the help you can get Mayor Newsom rather than just those who write the big checks or are party stalwarts.<ul><li><label>Overall Rating</label>: 3</li> </ul> Thanks for your response to the Examiner editorial and congratulations to your staff writers who did a good job of spinning it to read better than it is. My grandparents, parents, brothers and their kids have lived in San Francisco for much longer than a century and I’m not going to tell you what San Francisco WAS like, but I feel depressed and degraded by what is IS today. I’ve lived in many parts of this diverse, wonderful city and for the last 19 years I’ve lived two blocks west of Union Square in a lovely Cooperative.

Today my neighborhood is under assault by petty criminals who are shooting up and crashing on at least two corners within a block of my home, people urinating, passing out, hooking, vandalizing, applying graffiti, aggressively panhandling, harassing residents and tourists alike, screaming and shouting and breaking car windows as well as parking illegally and it takes an act of congress to get the attention of someone to stop it.

I support your programs borrowed from New York City and Chicago to create and staff community courts that prosecute these people. All crime is against the law, and for too long only those with jobs are being held accountable for the things they do that erode the quality of life all of us deserve. Homelessness, addiction and alcoholism and mental illness aren’t crimes, but that population seems to be responsible for almost 90% of the quality of life crime that robs all of us of the quality of life we each deserves.

I’ve publicly offered my services to make this plan a reality and I reiterate that offer. Please accept all the help you can get Mayor Newsom rather than just those who write the big checks or are party stalwarts.

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