Non Newsome Day.

by Joe B.

Today is Tuesday, July 30, 2002.

Today’s topic is not about Sup. Gavin Newsom and his 23 or whatever numbered plan for supposed caring for houseless and working poor by keeping most of the General Assistant or G.A. from people who need it most.

The "Care Not Cash" Plan or initiative (CNC) though on the surface is help wean most homeless alcoholics and drug users there’s one small catch…

I’ll wait for readers to figure it out.

Have some readers gotten a whiff of clues to the glitch

Give up? Times up folks.

1) A small, little, infinitesimal flaws that becomes a gaping error is.

The majority of working poor, home/houseless folks work at dead-end low minimum or sub minimum wage jobs.

2) the same hard working two or more jobs to make ends meet are non-drug or alcohol users.

It’s an out of state stereotype and scare tactic hype.

Most of the population now without homes are not on drugs or mental cases.

There are many but the majority population are clean of drugs.

3) The so called 80% percent seen publicly is less than 20% fraction but get all the negative news shown about them and then its projected on the rest of honest citizen’s in San Francisco or people in other cities.

I’m sure a few hundred always clean and sober homeless and working poor folk showed to speak to these half-truths and bald faced lies the story changes dramatically.

Now for a more personal problem facing me.

Today my place is being check for critters by exterminators.

Between that and appointments to visit, be visited, by the San Francisco Housing Authority is nerve racking.

One time my asthma acted up as I rode the bus the Van Ness office.

What does one do when they cannot rest misplaced the inhaler, gulping gasping at air, and wet from perspiration?

I’m drinking mint tea, sucking mentholated cough drops, and hitting my chest trying to hold down shallow-breath-panic.

It was worse because I also had to work and half the day couldn’t gulp a full breath to save my life. I was spent and tired as if I had ran two marathons, back to back, in the Sahara Desert, on the hottest day of the year.

Now, my place is being checked for real bugs, roaches, and flies.
There are two plans for this plans

Is clean up, toss out trash, light up some incense just before inspectors or exterminators are inside. Then there’s my alternate plan A1.

A1’s plan, cover everything from bed, table, desk, and floor with clean blankets, sheets, or a quilt, open windows, and light up some incense sticks. My alternate plan is now in progress.

So you see folks this take precedence over Mr. G-N’s aspirations.
The personal is political probably but losing my S .R. O.[Single Room Occupancy] shelter is my politics and as for Newly, Newel, Newt, or whatever who might cause more problems than helps.

I figure watch, learn, report results, then as truth dawns and as the real deal is known people will vote without the smoke screens of ads, smiles, cult-of-personality charisma foolishness.

In the final reckoning its up to voters knowing the facts doing, they’re civic duties. Right now I’m more worried about cleaning my place, paying rent, phone bill, so my PC can enter the net while Newsy, Newby, whatever his name makes his play for another office.

Time for someone else to… In fact there should be relief women, men as in relay race so as people begin to burn out can be replaced so there is always someone to ask and answer Newsom’s point counter point on his and other policies and truths real and harried activists (excluding myself)
won’t burnout, get rest and can jump into the breach again.

This is N.N.N. the Non Newsom Net.

I only care how he effects policy I care nothing about the guy at all.

Got to get home and uncover everything. Bye…