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Welfare moms unhappy with free lodging, prepared meals, WiFi, maid service
American Thinker ^ | Feb 4, 2016 | Ed Straker

Posted on 02/04/2016 4:27:53 AM PST by simpson96

D.C. welfare moms are having to put up with lodging in hotels that give them prepared meals, cable TV, internet WiFi access, and maid service that don't meet their standards:

"Tiera Williams and her four children dodge cars on a winter evening as they cross the parking lot of the Days Inn to the Washington motel room the children call "Mommy's house."

"People at the Days Inn - one of at least 12 motels being used by the city to house 730 homeless families this winter – lean over the balcony that overlooks the courtyard lit by the December glow of yellow lights."

"They occupy a hidden world of desperation and poverty mixed with every-other-day maid service, free WiFi, continental breakfast in the lobby, and lunch and dinner in the 170-room motel's banquet room."

Lunch and dinner in the banquet room meets my definition of hidden desperation.

"They've been living here since August when Williams - then six months pregnant and unemployed with no place to go – called the city's homeless hotline.

She opens the door to her unit, ushering her children inside a space that she describes as "the size of two jail cells." The decor is pleasant enough, with maroon carpeting, wood paneled headboards and a television in an armoire near a bathroom vanity."

If Tiera is unhappy with her room, why doesn't she go to the front desk and change her reservation to get a larger suite, as any person paying her own way would do?

"Williams dumps bags of groceries on the motel room desk. In the mini refrigerator, she stacks yogurt, apples, oranges and a roasted chicken they will have for dinner that night. She uses her food stamps to buy meals because she doesn't like eating the pasta, casseroles, chicken, hot dogs and other dishes the city provides at the motel."

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: District of Columbia
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To: SkyPilot

Where were you, Sky Pilot? To me it sounds like Costa Rica.


61 posted on 02/04/2016 7:07:40 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Whatever is true, honorable, right, pure, lovely, excellent, worthy of praise: dwell on these things)
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To: Gaffer

Thanks for the positive reinforcement.

My opinion is that a person’s vocabulary can never be too large, especially when insulting large groups of people over the internet for their torpid, dissipated and squandered lives.


62 posted on 02/04/2016 7:07:42 AM PST by T-Bone Texan (The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
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To: PLMerite

Keep in mind we are referring to a demographic that is incredibly fecund.


63 posted on 02/04/2016 7:08:36 AM PST by T-Bone Texan (The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
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To: i_robot73

I agree she was filth. Completely. They won’t admit it but she is their pathfinder and her legacy lives on..

Regardless of political persuasion, when you start targeting peoples for your specialized services for the sole point of making money and gaining political power, you are in the same boat as Hitler, Stalin and all the other tyrants this world has ever seen.


64 posted on 02/04/2016 7:08:42 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: simpson96

Never fear, Bernie sanders shall provide her with a mansion, a new car, gourmet meals, and other fruits of coerced largesse.


65 posted on 02/04/2016 7:12:30 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: abbastanza

Which baby daddy?

Shew has 4 sniveling brats already.


66 posted on 02/04/2016 7:16:46 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Sooth2222

I actually lived in a motel once. Was moving to Vegas and my boyfriend and his brother had already rented a house for us all but it was about a month 1/2 before it would be ready. A friend of theirs owned it and they were redoing it. He and I lived in a motel with a kind of kitchenette. No room service really but the housekeeper came every other day.
I kind of liked it. lol


67 posted on 02/04/2016 7:20:11 AM PST by sheana
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To: abbastanza
Where the baby daddy?

This is just a guess, but the whiner referred to her Days Inn room as the "size of two jail cells" and that causes one to ponder how she came to that analogy.
68 posted on 02/04/2016 7:20:19 AM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: simpson96
"Tiera Williams and her four children dodge cars on a winter evening as they cross the parking lot of the Days Inn

Why? Is someone holding some sort of rallye in the parking lot that would necessitate pedestrians dodging all those cars?

99.9999% of all cars in a parking lot are immobile. Makes 'dodging' pretty easy, no?

69 posted on 02/04/2016 7:32:45 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Why do we give our hearts to the past? And why must we grow up so fast?)
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To: All

The overwhelming majority of the world’s problems could be solved by refusing to pay people to breed.


70 posted on 02/04/2016 7:33:57 AM PST by Maverick68
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To: Maverick68
Until we are allowed to point out the DISGUSTING practice of PAYING DEMOCRATS TO BREED, we have no chance.

It would be interesting to know how many of that type actually do vote. It would seem that laziness about one's own future would flow over into an inconvenience like getting to the polls on election day, or filling out one of those tricky absentee ballots and getting it in on time.

71 posted on 02/04/2016 7:40:24 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever!)
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To: abbastanza
Where the baby daddy daddies?
72 posted on 02/04/2016 7:41:18 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever!)
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To: Amity

True. To be honest, the reviews weren’t all that bad for a welfare motel. I have seen much worse. On the other hand, the bullet proof glass, the permanently closed swimming pool and the bedbugs do provide a hint. And I like the way Yelp software features the bloody bedbug photo. Yow!


73 posted on 02/04/2016 7:43:22 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: SkyPilot
These folks were respectful, hard working, well mannered, well spoken, and well dressed. Many were overtly Christian. I saw men and women reading Bibles on the bus. They greeted you and each other with wishes for blessings. They were polite and kind. They were diligent and serious about their work. They respected the law, and had little tolerance for lawbreaking. Their children were well behaved and respectful. They corrected their children and held one another to high standards of proper behavior.

There are a number of names for folks like that (and there are a lot of them) in this country. Uncle Tom, Aunt Jemima, House Nigga, Sellout...and lots of others less polite. And only hung upon them by "their own" people.

74 posted on 02/04/2016 7:45:16 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever!)
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To: Sooth2222
She opens the door to her unit, ushering her children inside a space that she describes as "the size of two jail cells."

What a thankless deadbeat. Jail cell? Then put me away.

Photos of the rooms at the Days Inn at Connecticut Ave., Washington, DC:


75 posted on 02/04/2016 7:46:30 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Why do we give our hearts to the past? And why must we grow up so fast?)
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To: sheana
I kind of liked it.

I love staying in motels/hotels. Not flea bags mind you. But I find nothing wrong with a Days Inn.

76 posted on 02/04/2016 7:49:11 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Why do we give our hearts to the past? And why must we grow up so fast?)
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To: PLMerite
...18 and 19 year old GRANDMOTHERS in New Orleans and transplants in Houston."

... I don’t think that’s biologically possible. But I’ve been wrong before.

27-28-29s abound, though.

77 posted on 02/04/2016 7:56:00 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever!)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

This one was about par with a Days Inn. Was on S Maryland Parkway.


78 posted on 02/04/2016 7:56:26 AM PST by sheana
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To: CarolinaPeach

The OT way of leaving some gleanings in the field for them to eat was very appropriate.......................


79 posted on 02/04/2016 7:59:27 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: JimRed

“27-28-29s abound, though. “

Yes, and that’s scary enough. But not unexpected given the way pop culture and the welfare state push things.


80 posted on 02/04/2016 8:02:25 AM PST by PLMerite (The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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