it's another crazy san francisco protest!

If it's Christmas, it must be time for another nutty San Francisco protest. This enterprising young man has decided to protest impending funding cuts to the City's public health budget. The City, you see, is facing a half BILLION dollar budget shortfall, so the obvious thing to do is chain oneself to the "Tree of Hope" (groan!) and make a spectacle of oneself. Kid, those cuts have to come somewhere, and the DPH is the biggest bloated bureaucracy in the City's bloated bureaucracy. I have been hearing about the horrors of draconian budget cuts all of my life, but I have yet to see the large-scale Dickensian poverty that guys like this forecast. Put him in jail for a day so he can get up close and personal with some real poverty.