30,000 line up for housing vouchers, some get rowdy

AJC ^ | 8/11/2010 | AJC

[mikelets456]

Tens of thousands of people lined up at an East Point shopping center hoping to get federal housing assistance became unruly Wednesday morning with reports of fights breaking out in the crowd. An East Point police spokesman said the crowd numbered 30,000, some of whom waited for two days at the Tri-Cities Plaza shopping center. They were seeking applications for East Point Housing Authority vouchers to discount their rent.

As the temperature rose Wednesday, people fell ill.

Sgt. Cliff Chandler, spokesman for the East Point Police Department, said there were no reported injuries from the jostling, but 62 people had to be treated for heat or health-related problems. He said 42 people were treated at the shopping center but 20 had to be taken to nearby hospitals. A toddler was treated earlier in the morning for "some type of seizure," Chandler said.

[fr_freak]

Actually, let me clarify: the lottery is used to prevent this type of rush to get applications, because then it doesn't matter who gets the app first, only who is picked. If you don't use the lottery system, but use "first come, first served", then you get this mob.

[yield 2 the right]

I have no hope for November 2010 it is all because of November 2008.
It is over!
We lost and they won.

[swheats]

Thanks for clarifying.

[takenoprisoner]

Obama’s judicial is now enforcing a regulation to register folks to vote when applying for food stamps and welfare etc.

Anyone know if they were they registering voters at this housing event?

[Patriotic1]

You have to realize that this meant 30,000 people HAD NOTHING PRODUCTIVE TO DO this morning, or yesterday, and so on.

I have to admit, until you posted that, I hadn't really thought of it in that way.

One would think that groups could band together for "mutual aid" and help each other out.

[fr_freak]

I have no hope for November 2010 it is all because of
November 2008.
It is over!
We lost and they won

Two things to remember:

1) This picture, in itself, is not a huge cause for alarm. We already knew that blacks vote 95% or so Democrat, so seeing 30,000 in line for hand-outs changes nothing.

2) It isn't over until the last gun is pried from the hand of the last (dead) patriotic American. Then it's over. Bear in mind, the Founding Fathers of this country not only considered the possibility of this type of outcome, they expected it. This overgrowth of government is not a sign of unexpected events; it is merely part of a cycle. All governments tend toward tyranny over time. We are overdue for a cleansing.

[ctdonath2]

Yup, squalid vs. poor.
Poor makes do with what they’ve got.
Squalid destroys it.

[nascarnation]

I think they are worse off and the damage has been accelerating since desegregation.

Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" did far more damage to blacks than the Klan ever dreamed of. Destroyed the black family structure with welfare. 70% plus illegitimacy rate now.

[nascarnation]

One would think that groups could band together for "mutual aid" and help each other out.

Sadly they are directed by "community organizers" like Baraq Hussein Obama. Whose goal is to make the populace more dependent on government.

[silentknight]

USA is bankrupt

Doubling of taxes needed

Here we go

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-11/u-s-is-bankrupt-and-we-don-t-even-know-commentary-by-laurence-kotlikoff.html

News WE already knew - but many don’t know yet.

[wizkid]

This is the story of how a Federally subsidized social experiment played out on a grand scale is cracking the veneer in communities across this land:

http://johnquincy.blogspot.com/2010/05/crime-and-poverty-american-tragedy-in.html

‘If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.” ~Charles Darwin