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Hundreds seeking housing money overwhelm Boca Authority [Florida](Riot Police called in)
The Palm Beach Post ^ | March 12, 2008 | KEVIN DEUTSCH, GRETEL SARMIENTO and LONA O'CONNOR

Posted on 03/14/2008 12:46:50 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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Wonder which political affiliation most of the rioters share? All Bush's fault, I presume...
1 posted on 03/14/2008 12:46:52 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Emotions can take over."

Not, apparently, gratitude at being given something for nothing.

2 posted on 03/14/2008 12:52:57 AM PDT by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The overwhelming turnout of people desperate for housing money came as little surprise to Suzanne Cabrera, president of the Housing Leadership Council of Palm Beach County.

These people aren't homeless or needy- they just want free money.

3 posted on 03/14/2008 1:00:55 AM PDT by perfect stranger (Nobama)
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To: Clemenza
You just don't miss us at all down here, do you? LOL!

At any rate, your folks have a never-ending source of entertainment with the local government.

Cheers and be safe this weekend. My buddies on the "American-Irish Olympic Drinking Team" are training for Beijing in NYC this weekend. Expect beer shortages...

4 posted on 03/14/2008 1:33:19 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Here's a Follow-up to augment your post:

Fallout extensive after Boca Raton near-riot


5 posted on 03/14/2008 1:36:33 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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“Angelica Rivera, a 28-year-old mother of five...”

Bet she’s single.

“We’re all working people...”

Bet not.

“That’s why I’m here. This is my first child,” Palmer said. “We really need it.”

What she NEEDS is a job (a husband wouldn’t hurt, either).

“This place is going to get shot up later,” she yelled to officers. “They can’t treat us like this.”

Treat her like WHAT, exactly? Like a self-entitled, demanding POS? Was this idiot arrested for making terrorist threats? Why not? How much longer must ordinary people and the police be treated to such behavior by these people before the public starts making demands on THEM?

When are we going to stand up to these people and start making them responsible for their own life choices and behaviors?


6 posted on 03/14/2008 2:40:15 AM PDT by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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>>”This place is going to get shot up later,” she yelled to officers. “They can’t treat us like this.”<<

Kind of sounds like a terroristic threat


7 posted on 03/14/2008 2:57:09 AM PDT by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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“this is my first child”

No doubt, the first of a dozen which she will demand that the taxpayers take care of.


8 posted on 03/14/2008 2:59:55 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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“We’re all working people...”

Bet not.

If so, how do they have the time to stand in line 8 hrs to apply for free money?

9 posted on 03/14/2008 3:01:15 AM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done, needs to be done by the government.)
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People grew agitated. Several fights broke out.

Instant gratification, Democrat voters expect to get ‘change’ but will end up with many more ‘hand outs’. Low tax rates for the rich would offer more opportunity for these poor to work and meet their own housing needs.


10 posted on 03/14/2008 3:20:43 AM PDT by Son House (Democrat High Tax Rates Suppress Opportunity and Jobs..)
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From your link:

A public notice said the housing agency would give out applications starting 9 a.m. Wednesday. But hundreds of people started camping out the night before at the office on Glades Road . Boca Raton police called Judith Aigen, authority executive director, to the office around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday as the crowd grew, and she decided to give out the applications then.

Honestly, I get upset when I get lied to. Apart from the larger issue of giving away free money confiscated from taxpayers, I can understand their frustration when they're told to be there at 9am and the ones who cooperate get shafted.

I'll bet we'll hear this later today: The obvious solution to this dilemma is MORE government intervention in our lives. Please, mister politician, bend us over again! Take even more of our money and give it to everyone who shows up! yay, socialism!

11 posted on 03/14/2008 3:35:03 AM PDT by ovrtaxt (Member of the irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.)
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I agree with you. They said 9am.

They should not have given any out prior to the appointed time.

12 posted on 03/14/2008 3:37:43 AM PDT by EBH ( ... the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness. --Alculin c.735-804)
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To: Caipirabob

I stopped by a real estate office yesterday. I saw half a dozen condos listed at $100,000. These were in Delray Beach, Boca Raton, Boynton Beach, and Lake Worth. One in Delray Beach was $42,500 and it did not say that it was a 55+ community. I didn’t even look at the listings in West Palm or Riviera Beach.


13 posted on 03/14/2008 3:49:52 AM PDT by sig226 (Real power is not the ability to destroy an enemy. It is the willingness to do it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Woo-Hoo!! -- Free Money !!

"Ahhhhh,Wait one minute! It's not 'free money', IT'S MY TAX MONEY their giving away! "


14 posted on 03/14/2008 4:08:53 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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The overwhelming turnout of people desperate for housing money came as little surprise to Suzanne Cabrera, president of the Housing Leadership Council of Palm Beach County

Let’s see, the housing market is in the toilet, the stock market is down, the economy is losing jobs, we are in a pre-recession and this women did not realize that people might turn out in droves????? What is up with her????


15 posted on 03/14/2008 4:30:34 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Disgusting. It looked almost like the New Orleans Superdome crowd. Wait, they are interchangable? Of course, free is free, no matter where you give it out. Especially when we “owe” it to certain groups. In this case, you had to be a sow, have had one or more litters with multiple last names, have no husband around, and be willing to be loud and demanding. The result: Instant success with both the federal and state government.


16 posted on 03/14/2008 5:08:18 AM PDT by Bulldawg Fan (Victory is the last thing Murtha and his fellow Defeatists want.)
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"We're all working people and we're all bitter right now," said Deborah Davis, 37. "To be turned away like this hurts."

Welcome to life in the Worker's Paradise, Deborah.

17 posted on 03/14/2008 5:11:58 AM PDT by Ignatz (I gave up self-sacrifice for Lent.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

wow....intersing!


18 posted on 03/14/2008 5:29:47 AM PDT by dennisw (Never bet on a false prophet! <<<||>>> Never bet on Islam!)
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The overwhelming turnout of people desperate for housing money came as little surprise to Suzanne Cabrera, president of the Housing Leadership Council of Palm Beach County.

desperate for housing money, but apparently NOT desperate enough to get a job and earn it.

19 posted on 03/14/2008 5:31:04 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: Bulldawg Fan
Shut Up, White Boy!
20 posted on 03/14/2008 6:27:41 AM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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