Nov 13, 2023
San Francisco doesn't care about American citizens, but sure wants to impress Xi Jinping. For years the streets of the city have been clogged with trash, drug paraphernalia, and zombies wandering around drugged out of their minds. Tents for homeless folks blocked the sidewalks, and human excrement was a constant hazard when walking around. Not this week. President Biden is meeting with the Chinese President and suddenly the streets look pretty good. Not that anybody minds that the streets have been cleared. In fact, if I were a San Francisco resident I would lobby to have summits in the city every month. But it shouldn't take a foreign leaders' visit for the city leaders to do their jobs for once. Keeping the city clean and safe is their job, but one they don't have much interest in performing for the citizens. The fact that this task can be accomplished-in nearly record time-demonstrates that it is possible to accomplish the task. What is lacking is not the resources o