San Francisco balanced its budget by cutting off the NGOs

by Mike SolanaYou probably don’t realize this on account of you have a real job, but government workers in California are still basically grifting on Covid hours, and they just sued notoriously evil MAGA Republican Gavin Newsom after he attempted to force them back into the office (four days a week).Now, the derangement of government unions isn’t really news, but their novel approach to stealing your money is making headlines: union lawyers allege the carbon released from forcing government workers to actually work, via commuting, violates CEQA, an environmental law typically just used to paralyze the housing market.

It’s truly an amazing theater of villains, and who do you root for? The public sector unions? The “environmental” law clearly designed to break civilization? The legal industry built upon our ongoing tolerance of frivolous lawsuits? Or the enabling bimbo governor who drove our state into the ground? A tough choice, but I’ll be cheering for an asteroid.by Harris SockelPer the SF Standard, nonprofits are bracing for ~1,050 layoffs as Mayor Lurie trims the city budget.Hundreds of nonprofit orgs across SF rake in ~$1.63 billion annually for, let’s see… hosting street fairs next to open drug markets in the Tenderloin, giving free money to undocumented immigrants, and “repairing historic harms” in black neighborhoods (free money).

California Post News: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, WhatsApp, LinkedInCalifornia Post Sports Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, XCalifornia Post Opinion California Post Newsletters: Sign up here!California Post App: Download here!Home delivery: Sign up here!Page Six Hollywood: Sign up here!Meanwhile, the city is facing a $643 million budget deficit — and most of this nonprofit money goes to staff.(The Dream Keeper Initiative, for example, intended to help black residents, spent ~$6 million on, among other things, trips to Martha’s Vineyard, spa days for execs, and a bulk order of an employee...