Just when people think leftists are done doing crazy things, the shock alarm goes off and jolts folks back to reality. California leftists generally top the list for crazy public services, such as needles for drug addicts provided free on city streets.

The leftists are branching out by servicing others who have a “disorder” by providing another free service. This one appeals to those with a thirsty palate who have no business partaking of another round.

San Francisco is spending millions of dollars to wet the appetite of homeless people who would get escorted out of any respectable bar. The goal apparently is to provide the new city service to lessen the burden from drunks on public services.

From The Daily Wire:
San Francisco is spending around $5 million a year to give vodka shots and glasses of beer to homeless people with severe alcohol addiction in an effort to cut down on calls to police and hospital stays, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.

The city’s “managed alcohol program” started during the COVID pandemic, but came under fire earlier this week after Adam Nathan, the chair of the Salvation Army San Francisco Advisory Board, posted a thread on X, saying he “stumbled upon the building where they have this program.”

“The location is an old hotel in SOMA,” Nathan wrote. “Inside the lobby, they had … kegs set up to taps where they were basically giving out free beer to the homeless who’ve been identified with AUD (Alcohol Use Disorder).”

The essentially open bar program is apparently based on some “limited studies” that have shown “some promise,” according to Nathan. The city’s hefty spending appears to be more than the value of the program.

Nathan said the hotel provides a setting where “people in the program just walk in and grab a beer, and then another one. All day.” He estimated that San Francisco spends $2 million per year on the program while The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the “managed alcohol program” costs the city around $5 million annually.

With that much money being spent, liberal taxpayers in San Francisco could expect lots of people being served, or so you would think. That would be wrong thinking as the city’s Department of Public Health reported that the program has served 55 clients and has grown from 10 beds to 20 beds. This multi-million-dollar program is located in a former hotel in the Tenderloin district, an area known for its high rates of homelessness and drug use.

Supporters of the program claim the controversial program helps stabilize the alcohol use of homeless addicts to stop binge drinking or stopping drinking and having seizures, according to the Chronicle article. The city fired department claimed the program has proven to be an “incredibly impactful intervention” at reducing emergency service use by a “small but highly vulnerable population.”

By a rough calculation, that’s about $90,000 per person if the number is 55 clients. That’s a lot of alcohol for people who need to stop drinking. San Francisco city leaders might want to adopt an age-old program at the local bar and announce a last call. The tap on this money-burning liberal kegger needs to be pulled.

As one local man in recovery for heroin addiction said, “I think we should be spending that money on detox and recovery,” and stop managing people’s addictions with “taxpayer dollars in perpetuity forever.” That’s sage advice from a man who has first-hand experience of the life of an addict and lived to tell about it.

Key Takeaways:

• San Francisco was slammed for spending millions of dollars on free booze for alcoholics.
• The controversial program set up beer on tap in an old hotel and let addicts drink away.
• One recovering addict said such programs that spend taxpayer dollars should be stopped.

Source: The Daily Wire