Posted on 07/10/2010 8:57:11 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
DAYTONA BEACH -- In a cramped room, smaller than two walk-in closets, Jesus Valentin's two children jump from one bunk bed to the next trying to burn off energy.
He and his fiancee, who is expecting their third child in August, have tried to make their room at the STAR Family Shelter more of a home by decorating with schoolwork from their 3- and 4-year-olds.
But after seven months of eating with about 80 adults and children in the shelter, sharing common spaces such as the living room area and restrooms and showers, they are anxious to get into a house or apartment of their own.
The family is one of five from the shelter that will soon move out under a program with Volusia County that uses federal stimulus dollars to help people who are homeless with rent and utilities.
The Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing program, paid for by $12.9 million in federal funding statewide under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, has assisted more than 7,000 Floridians, according to state officials.
The prevention program helps low-income individuals or families who are at risk of becoming homeless and need help with rent or utilities. The rapid-re-housing program helps people who are already homeless move into rental housing and provides assistance over a period of months.
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He and his fiancee, who is expecting their third child in August....
And I am suppose to feel sorry for these people?
Keep your legs closed and give your present children up for adoption to someone who will give them a good home and THEN we can talk about what help you may or may not need.
Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!
I wonder if this baby maker has a job..................
15 paragraphs into the story we learn:
“Part of the delay in finding a place, Valentin said, is he has a past criminal record, including felonies from 10 years ago.”
He and his fiancee, who is expecting their third child in August
So here we have an unmarried couple unemployed expecting another kid homeless but their waiting for there american dream to be handed to them on a silver platter. How about stop screwing get a job and work for the American dream you lazy bums.
I'm beginning to see what their plan is for all these foreclosed homes.
Free money for total parasite low lifes.
Yeah, raise my taxes to pay for these vermin.
And their wide screen TVs, iPhones, lottery tickets, new pimped out cars, and endless supply of prescription drugs of abuse and 40 ounce malt liquors
What a system!
I wonder if this baby maker has a job..................
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Or ever did.
Great “stimulus” plan. Doesn’t create a job, puts more on the public dole, keeps Democrats as the good guys for giving away taxpayers’ money, and builds more bureacracy. A Democrats’ heaven.
Baby making IS his job. And he’s obviously good at it.
'Hey-Zeus' Valentin is also a convicted FELON.
Pelosi-like intellectualism; “Unemployment, Food Stamps and Welfare is the very fastest and the best way to get this economy back on track!”
Under those terms, WE”RE BOOMIN’ MAN!
Anyhow houses that were bought new for just under 200k and were selling for 400k during the boom are now selling for 100 to 150k.
Why did they go a head and have 3 kids hen they couldn’t even afford themselves? Why is stimulas finds being used to nove them to an apartment that they will most likely lose once the funds run out?Take the kids away and send them on their way.
This is the wrong way to spend stimulus money, so are unemployment benefits. Both forms of benefits just warehouse people and put them on the shelf, instead of putting them into jobs.
Stimulus money should have been done another way. Instead of three trillion dollars of debt to spend on keeping people fed and happy not working or to keep government paid employees and teachers working, we should have declared a big tax holiday on business income, capital gains, inheritance, and given tax breaks to business spending on capital improvements. Plus, speed up government review of EPA, drug approvals, drilling and mining permits, etc.
Let capitalism put people to work and stop passing 2000 page bills on health-care or financial regulation as those bill just cause uncertainty as no business in those sectors wants to spend when it’s uncertain as to how the law will shake out.
What is the old saying.... tax what you want less of and subsidise what you want more of....!
I attended a parole hearing where one of the applicants claimed that he wanted release to “take care of the chirren and to be, you know, a dad man, and do the right thing . . .”.
He had 44 children.
Forty four.
His petition was denied, by the way.
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