Posted on 02/06/2014 6:01:49 PM PST by thecodont
Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier is gearing up for what she hopes is the next big fight in Congress — balancing out the growing economic inequality that has ravaged the middle class for years — so she reckoned she’d do a bit of ground-level research first.
And since you can’t get much more ground level than a homeless shelter, that’s where she went last Friday — to spend the night.
The Maple Street Shelter in Redwood City was the destination. Speier had actually been there a week before to chat with the residents, and the fact that a well-off Hillsborough member of the Washington power structure was hanging out with the penniless was lost on nobody, least of all the member herself. That was the point, she said.
“I’m still kind of reeling from the experience. Every member of Congress should be required to do what I did,” Speier said this week. “It would help us appreciate who we are talking about. We rattle off numbers, but it doesn’t speak about the people themselves.”
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.sfgate.com ...
How compassionate!
~Matthew 6, verses 2 and 3
How about trying running a business instead?
You can see how all the BS rules and regs keep you from hiring more people top keep them from being homeless.
Regular people? When Speier and her fellow leaches give up the house gym, the house bank, the special 0bamacare hotline, the hair salon, the special airport parking, the ability to bypass the TSA, the ability to ignore discrimination laws...
Yeah Speier is regular people.
Too bad she couldn’t abort herself too.
I’m actually quite surprised.
MSM articles mentioning the “homeless” have pretty much disappeared since Jan 2009.
Yeah sure, and she probably was sleeping in a $100 sleeping bag, kept warm with an electric blanket, and had her personal armed bodyguard standing a few feet away from her.
And all this after she had a 6-course meal at the taxpayer’s expense.
She is really roughing it.
MSM articles mentioning the “homeless” have pretty much disappeared since Jan 2009.
They're trying to loop it into the "economic inequality" meme. See, it's not that the economy stinks and manufacturing jobs have been shipped overseas and illegal aliens are hired in place of American workers and our borders leak like a colander draining macaroni. No, sir. The problem is the result, and the fix is to make everyone poor.
The next time you hear some prog whine about "economic inequality" (likely he has more money than you), ask him to empty his pockets and share some wealth with someone nearby. Like you..
Any stories of fat cat liberals giving up any of their money, comforts, stuff in order to equalize with the lowly?
The word hypocrite comes from the Greek word hupocrites, the mask-wearing actors of Greek theater.
She saw utopia in Jonestown, you think she would have learned.
Piker. There are people living under bridges in Michigan.
Since it was a San Francisco article, I was hoping Piglosi.
How many “homeless people “ has she taken into her spacious. Upscale house? I normally wouldn’t ask except that she’s making such a publicity stunt out of this.
Pharisee Nancy!
I have to wonder how much video there exists of her visit.
NOT that I want to see it mind you.
Talk about out of touch!
While I commend Rep. Speier for rolling up her sleeves and getting involved, it remains that the states have never delegated to Congress, via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for the homeless.
Note that Founding States had made the 10th Amendment to clarify in general that the Constitution’s silence about things like the homeless means the following. “Government” power to regulate, tax and spend on behalf of the homeless, in this example, is automatically reserved uniquely to the states.
So some state rep. should have been inspired to do this project.
Ergo, he's an "expert" on homelessness.
To make this realistic, take a chronic alcoholic and drug using congressperson and let them see how few resources there are for people who want to use drugs and drink into oblivion.
For those true needy, there are beds available.
Problem is, shelters have RULES.
Like NO drugs, NO booze.
And raping female homeless gets a severe frowning upon.
Once a congress-slug is TRULY living the life, then I'll listen.
Until then, enjoy your 179K per year with no expenses.
Every member of congress SHOULD be required to follow the constitution.
Now that she’s spent the night in a homeless shelter she can get a job in Hollywood playing a homeless person.
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