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City puts a stop to homeless outreach
The Houston Chronicle ^ | January 13, 2011 | BRADLEY OLSON

Posted on 01/14/2011 7:19:38 AM PST by cdga5for4

Bobby and Amanda Herring spent more than a year providing food to homeless people in downtown Houston every day. They fed them, left behind no trash and doled out warm meals peacefully without a single crime being committed, Bobby Herring said.

That ended two weeks ago when the city shut down their "Feed a Friend" effort for lack of a permit. And city officials say the couple most likely will not be able to obtain one.

"We don't really know what they want, we just think that they don't want us down there feeding people," said Bobby Herring, a Christian rapper who goes by the stage name Tre9.

(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: democratsdenyfood; dncdenyfood; liberalsagainstpoor; liberalsdenyfood; sanctuarycity
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I don't even know what to say.
1 posted on 01/14/2011 7:19:41 AM PST by cdga5for4
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To: cdga5for4
Thank God it's a free country.

</sarcasm>

2 posted on 01/14/2011 7:21:02 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." -- Barry Soetoro, June 11, 2008)
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To: cdga5for4

Don’t feed the future national security force they’ll get fat lazy and will not be angry when they need them


3 posted on 01/14/2011 7:22:20 AM PST by ronnie raygun (V.........................................FOR VOMIT)
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To: cdga5for4

Government doesn’t like competition


4 posted on 01/14/2011 7:23:24 AM PST by GeronL (How DARE you have an opinion!!)
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To: cdga5for4
The city doesn't want the homeless folks fed downtown, because doing so causes homeless people to gather downtown. You get more of what you subsidize and less of what you tax... the city wants the homeless folks to go away. That's all there is to this issue.

I've got a liberal neighbor who is most upset that there is a homeless shelter just a few blocks away from our neighborhood. He's not opposed to feeding the hungry; he just doesn't want to live next to them.

5 posted on 01/14/2011 7:25:00 AM PST by Oberon (Big Brutha Be Watchin'.)
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To: cdga5for4

“Connie Boyd, president and CEO of the Coalition for the Homeless of Houston/Harris County, applauded the Herrings’ efforts but defended the city’s stance.”

Read between the lines: The professional poverty pimps put them out of business. They probably called city counilmembers who then put heat on the administrators. NO AMATEURS ALLOWED—grants and donation money at stake. Allways follow the money. POVERTY IS AN INDUSTRY.


6 posted on 01/14/2011 7:26:41 AM PST by SC_Pete
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To: cdga5for4

This is the same santuary city that breaks the federal law and harbors crminals. I’m glad I don’t live there.


7 posted on 01/14/2011 7:27:31 AM PST by quegley (Pitchforks and torches! Tar and feathers! Time to take the country back!)
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To: cdga5for4

This vigilante charity has to stop. Charity begins at the legislature and ends at the cold disinterested hand of the bureaucrat.


8 posted on 01/14/2011 7:28:00 AM PST by DManA
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To: cdga5for4

Just another case where government has run amok and destroyed something good with it’s heavy handed “good intentions”.


9 posted on 01/14/2011 7:28:15 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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To: cdga5for4

We have created a heartless monster, i.e., Big Government. This is highly immoral and criminal in my opinion. Maybe they should have guised themselves as a Gay Outreach program to feed the homeless? I’m sure they would be exempted from “the law”.


10 posted on 01/14/2011 7:30:27 AM PST by lormand (A Government who robs Peter to pay Paul, will always have the support of Paul)
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To: cdga5for4

Because poor people are the exclusive property of Holy Mother the State.


11 posted on 01/14/2011 7:31:28 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("You can observe a lot just by watchin' " . --- Yogi Berra)
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To: cdga5for4

12 posted on 01/14/2011 7:33:02 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Thank God it's a free country.

Yes. Thank God the you have the right to run around homeless and defecate on public and private property.

13 posted on 01/14/2011 7:33:49 AM PST by SeeSac
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To: cdga5for4

They’re trying to cut down on the pan-handling in the downtown area....


14 posted on 01/14/2011 7:37:34 AM PST by LaineyDee (Don't mess with Texas wimmen!)
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Here’s a cool idea, what we do in Wichita:

http://catholicdioceseofwichita.org/the-lords-diner/the-lords-diner-home


15 posted on 01/14/2011 7:39:01 AM PST by SaintDismas
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To: SeeSac
Yes. Thank God the you have the right to run around homeless and defecate on public and private property.

The Obama Depression will put a lot of people in that situation.

16 posted on 01/14/2011 7:42:30 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." -- Barry Soetoro, June 11, 2008)
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To: cdga5for4
>>>Anyone serving food for public consumption, whether for the homeless or for sale, must have a permit, said Kathy Barton, a spokeswoman for the Health and Human Services Department. To get that permit, the food must be prepared in a certified kitchen with a certified food manager.

The regulations are all the more essential in the case of the homeless, Barton said, because “poor people are the most vulnerable to foodborne illness and also are the least likely to have access to health care.”<<<

That makes sense, it is much healthier for the homeless to consume that “safe” food they find in dumpsters. /sarc

I'd be interested in knowing the statistics on how many homeless people have become ill from eating food prepared in uncertified kitchens by volunteer outreaches.

Also, how is “public consumption” defined. If I worked in Houston would it against the law for me to give half my homemade turkey sandwich to a co-worker? Could I bring in a plate of homemade cookies?

17 posted on 01/14/2011 7:42:45 AM PST by Above My Pay Grade
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To: cdga5for4

When I lived in Portland, Maine in the 80’s the homeless were coming in droves. There was/is a hobo newspaper that circulates among these people and it was raving about all the freebies that Portland had to offer. In they came. The same paper will probably advice to go elsewhere.


18 posted on 01/14/2011 7:46:03 AM PST by albie
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To: SC_Pete

Yup. Follow the money.


19 posted on 01/14/2011 7:49:48 AM PST by Leisler (They always lie, and have for so much and for so long, that they no longer know what about.http://ma)
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To: cdga5for4
The regulations are all the more essential in the case of the homeless, Barton said, because "poor people are the most vulnerable to foodborne illness and also are the least likely to have access to health care."

Oh, you can't feed the poor in an uncertified kitchen because they're so weak they might get sick and so destitute they won't be able to see a doctor when they do.

Let 'em starve and no one will get in trouble.

20 posted on 01/14/2011 7:50:34 AM PST by BfloGuy (It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect . . .)
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