… has a rotten core. Every liberals wants their city to be San Francisco, right? Well, as the San Francisco Weekly argues, the city is anything but the crown jewel of America ? instead, it’s “spectacularly mismanaged.”

The article is long enough to take up the better part of 20 minutes, so the first two paragraphs are a good snapshot of the abysmal picture (emphasis mine):

Despite its good intentions, San Francisco is not leading the country in gay marriage. Despite its good intentions, it is not stopping wars. Despite its spending more money per capita on homelessness than any comparable city, its homeless problem is worse than any comparable city’s. Despite its spending more money per capita, period, than almost any city in the nation, San Francisco has poorly managed, budget-busting capital projects, overlapping social programs no one is certain are working, and a transportation system where the only thing running ahead of schedule is the size of its deficit.

It’s time to face facts: San Francisco is spectacularly mismanaged and arguably the worst-run big city in America. This year’s city budget is an astonishing $6.6 billion ? more than twice the budget for the entire state of Idaho ? for roughly 800,000 residents. Yet despite that stratospheric amount, San Francisco can’t point to progress on many of the social issues it spends liberally to tackle ? and no one is made to answer when the city comes up short.