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1 posted on 08/07/2026 8:36:37 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

The more they spend, the more homeless they get.


2 posted on 08/07/2026 8:38:00 AM PDT by PGR88
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It’s the People’s Republic of Graft and Kickbacks. Nothing will happen. Like voter fraud, it’s how they do bidness. That sewer of a state is like some banana republic where everybody is on the take.


4 posted on 08/07/2026 8:41:14 AM PDT by LouAvul (They're doing it again because you didn't hang them last time.)
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while roughly $824,000 in vacation time was paid out over 2023 and 2024.

Sounds like a tough gig to need that much vacation from it. /sarc

5 posted on 08/07/2026 8:41:17 AM PDT by xp38
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Strange how people who work for non-profits find a way to handsomely profits.


6 posted on 08/07/2026 8:41:24 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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What a scam!

“Adelkoff has listed the Big Island of Hawaii as her primary residence for more than a decade, according to the outlet.

Property records show she owns a 3,700-square-foot, four-bedroom home, and court records include testimony from her daughter that she was raised in Hawaii and that her mother lives there “year-round.”

Adelkoff declined to confirm where she lives, telling the newspaper that revealing her location could pose a security risk because the nonprofit serves victims fleeing abusive situations. She also did not answer questions about how often she travels to Southern California for work or who pays for those trips.”

There should be no government funded nonprofits or NGOs. They’re just money laundering rackets, and whatever problem they supposedly fix they only make worse because that’s how they stay and grow their “business”.


7 posted on 08/07/2026 8:52:14 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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This is the purpose for which "homelessness" as we know was created by the Billy Boggs case.

It was all a massive graft project from day zero.

10 posted on 08/07/2026 9:00:49 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was always really part of the program. )
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To: BenLurkin

Somalians had to learn the scam from those that flourish stealing taxpayers money under the guise of virtue signaling, albeit false virtue.


11 posted on 08/07/2026 9:09:15 AM PDT by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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How a Homeless Shelter Drove Me Away from the Far Left
12 posted on 08/07/2026 9:43:42 AM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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Lots of money to be made in the corrupt homeless industry...

First there’s donations, cash fees from ‘rent a mob’ companies, tax free crap.. and no one cares if the situations they’re ‘helping’ gets worse every year.


13 posted on 08/07/2026 9:49:33 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Illegals are NOT immigrants anymore than thieves are house guests")
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paid its longtime CEO more than $1.6 million over two years,


worth it IF they solved the problem


17 posted on 08/07/2026 11:19:15 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple ((Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere))
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To: BenLurkin

In California not many things get done unless a bribe is involved.


18 posted on 08/07/2026 11:38:10 AM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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All through the years inefficient government programs have led people to joke “They may as well stand on the street corners and give every poor person thousands of dollars in cash.”*

Think of how much $1.6 Million would mean to actual disadvantaged people such as a mother who left her abusive husband and wants to protect her two small children but is totally broke. Or a disabled old person who can’t work and is now becoming a homeless person begging for money.

But that is all leading to a surge in demand for socialist/communist takeovers. The greed by some is leading to punishment for all of us.

* During President Gerald Ford’s term, his program to match people to jobs that would earn them $10,000 a year (pretty good back then) meant his bureaucracy and distribution expenses and paperwork ended up costing the government approximately $50,000 for each $10,000 a year job. Definitely would have been better to throw cash into the air.


19 posted on 08/07/2026 11:51:14 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: BenLurkin

Can anyone afford to live in California except government and NGO employees?


20 posted on 08/07/2026 1:08:21 PM PDT by sphinx
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Helping the poor... Obviously, it's a profitable business venture for those who are 'concerned' about the downtrodden and are offering their services as 'middlemen' between the rich and the poor. There was a time when rich people just gave the poor money in a direct fashion, like John D. Rockefeller who famously gave out quarters to the poor... Except he didn't.

According to AI Overview...

John D. Rockefeller did not hand out quarters to the poor; instead, he famously carried a pocketful of shiny new dimes to give to children and adults he met. He used these small gifts to teach lessons about saving money and personal thrift.

The poor... Apparently it's not a 'new' thing, they've always been around.

22 posted on 08/07/2026 3:03:21 PM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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Beyond shameless: LA homeless nonprofit CEO milks taxpayers for $1.6M

https://nypost.com/2026/08/07/opinion/shameless-la-homeless-nonprofit-ceo-milks-taxpayers-for-1-6m/?dicbo=v2-cSna45N


23 posted on 08/09/2026 3:57:33 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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