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HUD Awards $1.4 Billion in Grants for Homeless
Madison.com via AP ^
| February 20, 2007
| Staff Writer @ AP
Posted on 02/20/2007 1:07:39 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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Well, problem solved then! That's the last we'll hear of this, I'm sure. ;)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Wow, sounds like a bonanza, I think Ill turn homeless and cash in on some benefits.
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Ah, the "Homeless Advocate Full Employment Act of 2007" passed, did it? ;)
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posted on
02/20/2007 1:10:08 PM PST
by
Mr. Jeeves
("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
To: rovenstinez
Anybody know how much crack $1.4 Billion will buy?
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posted on
02/20/2007 1:15:53 PM PST
by
JLGALT
(Don't put down Muslims. They're just like everyone else - if everyone else is a mass murderer!)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
"5,300 programs across the nation"
This is nuts. No wonder we have a problem.
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posted on
02/20/2007 1:20:44 PM PST
by
edcoil
(Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
What they really want is for the government (with our money) to pay for food, shelter, haircuts, bus, braces, soccer uniforms, cable tv, shoes and cell phones for everyone. Thus we would be almost completely in communism, which is their real goal. A better idea. Reward achievement and let the government take care of those who genuinely can't take care of themselves, such as the elderly, the blind, the disabled, etc.
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Must be where Denver is getting the money to build their apartments for the homeless. No real restrictions . You have to pay 30% of your income as rent. Right.
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posted on
02/20/2007 1:29:52 PM PST
by
dynachrome
("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
To: Diana in Wisconsin
But that is only an average of 1827.95 each for the 744,000 homeless. We can do better than that? Build a larger rat hole.
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posted on
02/20/2007 1:31:31 PM PST
by
zek157
To: Diana in Wisconsin
WTF! You could put a lot of people to work by lowering taxes on entrepeneurs by 1.4 billion, or whatever the number is.
What is our exit strategy in the war on poverty?
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posted on
02/20/2007 1:31:35 PM PST
by
Fierce Allegiance
(I love pissing off liberals, both democrat and republican.)
To: dynachrome
Problem is most of these people want to be out on the streets. They have to force them into shelters at night.
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posted on
02/20/2007 1:33:26 PM PST
by
BunnySlippers
(RUDY FOR PRESIDENT 2008)
To: BunnySlippers
"They have to force them into shelters at night"
Maybe not with the cold and snow we have been having lately!
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posted on
02/20/2007 1:34:55 PM PST
by
dynachrome
("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
To: zek157
You are not factoring in the paychecks of the employees of these "homeless programs". There is more spent on the employees by far than is ever "trickled downed" to the actual homeless people. The laptops, the offices, the paperwork, the meetings, the seminars, plus cars and vans, etc.
It has nothing to do with what happens to some lost soul out in the zero degree weather. That one poor soul supports at least four B.A. "social service" employees. It is a cottage industry.
If you read this article carefully, here is what you will see:
>>>Local programs for the homeless use the federal grants to obtain more funding from state and local governments and private donors, said Nan Roman, president of the National Alliance to End Homelessness.<<<
The HUD money is just a cachet to obtain more money via "more funding from state and local governments and private donors". It is the avalanche effect. HUD gives 1.4 BILLION. That will be met and matched by state, private, and local donations. How much gets to the homeless? Not much. I temped at one of these places for a few months; they are the spawn from hell. They are all solid DU candidates, and very unhappy and mean people, to boot. I was shocked when I was offered the position permanently. I laughed right in the board's faces. It was January and these people had just sent the "clients" out to stand at a bus stop in - ten degree weather. Not one of the "counselors" would get off their hung over butts and give those poor people a ride home. Twenty minutes tops.
Gawd, how I hate those leeches!
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posted on
02/20/2007 2:14:27 PM PST
by
ishabibble
(ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
HUD: Huge Urban Destruction
To: Diana in Wisconsin
How generous of Washington! ...and with our money too! That has to make it easier to give away.
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posted on
02/20/2007 2:18:35 PM PST
by
TChris
(The Democrat Party: A sewer into which is emptied treason, inhumanity and barbarism - O. Morton)
To: rovenstinez
This money will never reach the homeless any more that the tobacco settlement money ever reached ill smokers; it will be swallowed by the giant maw of ever expanding government bureaucracy.
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posted on
02/20/2007 2:22:17 PM PST
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
HUD Awards $1.4 Billion in Grants for HomelessLooks like a boom economy on the way...
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posted on
02/20/2007 2:22:23 PM PST
by
NewLand
(Always remember September 11, 2001)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
United States had 744,000 homeless people in 2005. Deport them to ghost towns around the US. We have plenty of them.
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posted on
02/20/2007 2:23:22 PM PST
by
Centurion2000
(If you're not being shot at, it's not a high stress job.)
To: Fierce Allegiance
"What is our exit strategy in the war on poverty?"
LOL, well said!
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posted on
02/20/2007 2:33:40 PM PST
by
GunnyHartman
(The DNC, misunderestimating Dubya's strategery since 2000.)
To: GunnyHartman
Thanks. i didn't make it up, but i sure like to use it.
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posted on
02/20/2007 2:34:55 PM PST
by
Fierce Allegiance
(I love pissing off liberals, both democrat and republican.)
To: edcoil
""5,300 programs across the nation" '
Over one hundred programs per state. Is that an industry or what?
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posted on
02/20/2007 4:41:37 PM PST
by
gcruse
(http://garycruse.blogspot.com/)
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