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"...executive director Steve Schooler reported an unexplained spike in the number of men using the facility in recent weeks."

Hey, Einstein! It's been SUB ZERO for a week straight now.

1 posted on 02/07/2007 3:18:45 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

"People seem to care more about ...than they do about men like him, who line up in the cold every night to race for a cot in Madison's oldest homeless shelter."

He gets it. Now he should use that new-found knowledge to make a life assessment.


2 posted on 02/07/2007 3:21:27 PM PST by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Wouldn't it be cheaper to buy them all a one-way bus ticket to San Fransicko?


3 posted on 02/07/2007 3:23:01 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I would think that even if the place had everything but bubonic plague, it also had the one thing the outdoors in Madison, Wisconsin lacked this time of year: heat. While that alone might not earn it a five-star in Zuggat's, it should at least merit some appreciation.


4 posted on 02/07/2007 3:26:09 PM PST by IronJack (=)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I'm curious about Bernand Lewis, the 56 year old retired GM employee. I wonder why he retired so young, and I also wonder where his retirement checks are.


5 posted on 02/07/2007 3:26:27 PM PST by ChiefChris
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I'm curious about Bernand Lewis, the 56 year old retired GM employee. I wonder why he retired so young, and I also wonder where his retirement checks are.


6 posted on 02/07/2007 3:26:29 PM PST by ChiefChris
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

There's a stigma attached to the homeless and that's as it should be - it makes for less of them.


8 posted on 02/07/2007 3:28:04 PM PST by Jaysun (I've never paid for sex in my life. And that's really pissed off a lot of prostitutes.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
We're treated as second class," Bernard Lewis, a 56-year-old retired General Motors worker

A GM retiree who can't afford to support himself?

10 posted on 02/07/2007 3:31:08 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

"In addition, the men say that the blankets and pillows they use are not laundered often enough. "They stink," they said"
To this idiot: Get off your %$#$%%$#@ a-- and help the shelter people that are giving you your welfare!
(oh, wait, there is a reason you and the others are on the street isn't there?)


11 posted on 02/07/2007 3:31:23 PM PST by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
This article is a peephole eye view into the world of socialism. All are equal at the bottom of the barrel.

The "homeless" play the proxy for the great social experiment into the "one size fits all" thinking of local, state, and gov't officials. If these NGOs can show the need, the federal subsidy tsunami will wash over them. And who benefits? Who gets a paycheck for helping the "unfortunate"? Black or white, these people are suspect.
13 posted on 02/07/2007 3:33:30 PM PST by ishabibble (ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Several men complained of others who are drunk or high - conditions that are supposed to bar entry - who come in and scream and holler.

How many of them were once punkish youths demanding drug freedom, and promising not to leech off of others if they ever lost control of their habit?

They are the same addicts we see here occasionally, just in a different stage of life.

14 posted on 02/07/2007 3:34:23 PM PST by SteveMcKing
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Beggars can't be choosers.


16 posted on 02/07/2007 3:34:48 PM PST by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Championship U)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

"Of the three toilet stalls, the men said, only one has a door. Blankets hang over the openings of the other two stalls, they said. Schooler said that replacement doors are on order, remarking that the doors were ripped off their hinges.

Vandalism grows out of the way the men are treated, said the man who has been working to bring public attention to shelter conditions. "We disrespect the place because we get no respect," he said."


They tear the place up, then complain conditions are substandard. The "logic" of complete losers.


17 posted on 02/07/2007 3:38:47 PM PST by Cecily
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Executive director...? That's a highfalutin title for a homeless shelter volunteer.

Years ago, I got involved with some volunteer stuff, thinking I was doing my civic duty and all. But I quickly got disillusioned with the whole scene. These organizations were chock-full of self-important bozos who evidently signed on as volunteers so they can call themselves "directors" and "executives" all the other titles they could never hope to possess in the real working world.

Thus you had losers who couldn't get a mailroom job in the corporate world strutting around the place haughtily bossing other volunteers around like they were Donald Trump or Leona Helmsley or something.

26 posted on 02/07/2007 5:46:35 PM PST by SamAdams76 (I'm 41 days from outliving Steve Irwin)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Several men complained of others who are drunk or high - conditions that are supposed to bar entry - who come in and scream and holler.

If I was running that place anyone who made a peep after lights-out would be out on their @ss so fast they would skid to a stop.

There are plenty of others to take their place.

32 posted on 02/07/2007 6:12:37 PM PST by LibKill (ENOUGH! Take the warning labels off everything and let Saint Darwin do his job.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

In addition, the men say that the blankets and pillows they use are not laundered often enough. "They stink,"

________________________________________

That's because YOU stink!!


34 posted on 02/08/2007 5:48:12 AM PST by CTOCS (Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
"We're treated as second class,"

I hate to tell ya but you are.....

36 posted on 02/08/2007 3:18:42 PM PST by cherry
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