Mayor London Breed says San Francisco is implementing guaranteed income for artists and Pacific Islander mothers

Which people? She specifies in a follow-up tweet:

San Francisco is implementing guaranteed income programs to support artists, Black and Pacific Islander mothers, and people training to become EMTs. We're looking forward to working with @mayorsforagi to lift up our residents and strengthen our communities. https://t.co/uO09hTpvtc

— London Breed (@LondonBreed) May 5, 2021

“Artists, Black and Pacific Islander mothers, and people training to become EMTs” … what?

Can I identify as one of these classes if I am interested in receiving the guaranteed income?

— J.Maxx (@Libertarian247) May 5, 2021

I identify as a SF artist

— Semantic Overlord (@chuck_finnnnn) May 6, 2021

I assumed when she says, "Artists" what she means is, "My unemployed friends from college.

Seriously though, how could you craft fair selection criteria for which of the thousands of artists to pay?

— Zeb Fisk (@ZebFisk) May 6, 2021

So who qualifies as an "artist?" I'm guessing the art has to be approved by the People's Revolutionary Council on Appropriate Thought.

— Barney TheDeceiver (@BThedeceiver) May 5, 2021

Artists? FFS, signal harder.

— Mook T. (@MichaelTheroff) May 6, 2021

I’m an artist – gimme monies! pic.twitter.com/youhRUjgBg

— Mike (@Vrtual_Mike) May 6, 2021

Why does an artist need to be given a guaranteed income by the city when what they do serves no purpose to the general public?

— UpYours 🇺🇸 (@NickAntons123) May 6, 2021

Pacific Islanders only make up 0.2% of the city. So fewer than a dozen mothers…?

Why not Hispanic or Asian mothers? Or just mothers in poverty?

— Michelle Tandler (@michelletandler) May 5, 2021

I guess poor white mothers don't exist these days.

— Sunil (@focaltraveller) May 6, 2021

Are we just using a dartboard to determine which skin color qualifies for certain handouts?

— Bryan (@brostoevksy) May 5, 2021

Did you put a bunch of ethnicities and job titles in a hat and grab the first three slips of paper?

— Ben (@soccerfan1983) May 6, 2021

Getting money without producing products/services causes costs of goods to skyrocket. It puts everyone, including those getting the money, in a worse position.

— John Miles (@imjmiles) May 5, 2021

Also an incentive to continue to do nothing.

— Ciccio Puletti (@CiccioPuletti) May 5, 2021

Wait, what? You are paying people based on race? Is this a serious tweet?

— JoeyMags (@josephm1919) May 5, 2021

Good job on reintroducing racism in 2021! A program that excludes people based on the color of their skin.

— Crime_is_Downsf (@CDownsf) May 5, 2021

Congrats on implementing institutional racism.

— Crusaders Gangsters and Groupies (@MLS_Rossi) May 5, 2021

Would be great if San Francisco could focus on something other than race when it’s completely irrelevant

— Luka Gurgen (@skdif7) May 6, 2021

Can any attorneys advise whether race-based government aid is legal?

It feels unconstitutional, but I’m not an expert in this area.

— John Hornbuckle (@JohnRHornbuckle) May 6, 2021

Besides being racist, isn't this a violation of the 14h Amendment to equal protection under the law?

— Basil "Lower East Nothing" Fawlty (@InncentBystndr) May 6, 2021

Only real question here is:

When the SCOTUS strikes this down as equal protection violation is it a 6-3 decision or 9-0 decision?

— Mike Chowla (@mchowla) May 5, 2021

This is what real systemic racism looks like. Actual government programs which discriminate by race.

And democrats are celebrating it because they think it's the "right kind" of racial discrimination.

As if there is such a thing as the "right kind" of racial discrimination.

— Jim Martin (@The_Jim_Martin) May 6, 2021

Racist. Sexist. Bigoted. Unconstitutional.

— Eugene G. Bernat (@genebernat) May 6, 2021

An institution that is prejudiced by race. Like, if there were only a term for institutional race something, help me out here

— Vincent (@slatermaus) May 6, 2021

People need to start filing lawsuits

— DigDugPacMan (@DigDugPacMan) May 5, 2021

Lawsuits incoming.

— Ray Sawhill (@raysawhill) May 6, 2021

How are you paying for this??

— Peggy (@DesiFlurane) May 6, 2021

This psychopathic fruitloop of a mayor, a mental teenager with no sense of principles, needs to understand the major group needing financial support are the very businesses she ruined and destroyed with her insane, unconstitutional shutdown mandates! What a fraud and hypocrite!

— Not Applicable (@NoLongerHere59) May 5, 2021

We’ll have to look into it, but we’re wondering how many other mayors have thrown in with Mayors for a Guaranteed Income.

What level of Democrat is this? https://t.co/rHIc9UkZtL

— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) May 5, 2021

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