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Homeless getting one-way bus tickets to Austin
keyetv.com ^ | Oct. 28, 2916 | Nadia Galindo|

Posted on 10/29/2016 11:06:05 AM PDT by bgill

We called First Amarillo Church, the pastor confirmed they purchased an $85 one-way bus ticket for Quinonez back in August. Just one of two tickets to Austin purchased that month.

He told us buying one-way tickets for the homeless is a common practice for churches. Last fiscal year, First Amarillo bought 1,200 one-way bus tickets.

The money mostly spent to send homeless people to bigger cities that provide more resources for the homeless, like Austin.

“I know Austin is pretty open and friendly and accepting"

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: austin; bustickets; greyhoundtherapy; homeless
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To: FoundinTexas

A good number of homeless are homeless by choice.


21 posted on 10/29/2016 11:31:55 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: bgill

You are correct. Idiots in the cities that pushed for comprehensive and extensive homeless services are being overrun with the homeless from other cities. They are handed a one-way bus ticket and then become the problem of other cities. Just ask anyone in Dallas once the brain-dead DemocRATS pushed through the homeless center.


22 posted on 10/29/2016 11:33:59 AM PDT by bigredkitty1 (March 5, 2010. Rest in peace, sweet boy. I will miss you, Big Red.)
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To: bgill

Are they bussing them before or after they have voted in Amarillo?

Sumthin Smells.


23 posted on 10/29/2016 11:34:46 AM PDT by Gasshog (Clinton denies... Except to see a lot of this)
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To: bgill

And the churches in Austin should give them one-way bus tickets to Washington! I see a trend here.

In New York City there used to be a one year residency requirement for welfare. (New York at the time had relatively generous benefits and very few recipients compared to today.) You know where this is going. A judge ruled that the residency requirement was un-const-TIT-tooo-shun-al, and they started arriving by the busload from Alabama and Mississippi. A Federal judge later ruled that they couldn’t deny benefits to folks just cause they were in the country illegally.

The taxpayers were never consulted.


24 posted on 10/29/2016 11:36:01 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: bigredkitty1

“If you build it, they will come.”


25 posted on 10/29/2016 11:36:09 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Gasshog
Sumthin Smells.

The bus.

26 posted on 10/29/2016 11:36:51 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: bgill

Most of these people are homeless because they chose a lifestyle that got them there. Drugs, alcohol, crime, and laziness will do that.

To make matters worse, Austin is a sanctuary city that attracts ILLEGALS and drug dealers by the thousands. They asked for it, and now they got it.


27 posted on 10/29/2016 11:37:58 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: dfwgator

Yes, and it makes navigating through the south side of downtown Dallas an ‘adventure’...and not the good kind.


28 posted on 10/29/2016 11:40:56 AM PDT by bigredkitty1 (March 5, 2010. Rest in peace, sweet boy. I will miss you, Big Red.)
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To: mom of young patriots

Reforming Austin? Proud of you for trying, but that’s just pissing into the wind. The seat of government is there and UT is there, and elements of the tech industry.


29 posted on 10/29/2016 11:41:34 AM PDT by DesertRhino (November 8th. AMERICA'S BREXIT!)
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To: sparklite2

Amarillo is less friendly to bums than Austin. And you find this surprising? lol


30 posted on 10/29/2016 11:44:10 AM PDT by DesertRhino (November 8th. AMERICA'S BREXIT!)
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To: bgill
Every leftwinger in Austin can have their own homeless guy


31 posted on 10/29/2016 11:44:28 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Hilary is an Ameriphobe)
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To: DesertRhino

I was raised in Amarillo, and we didn’t export our problems back then.


32 posted on 10/29/2016 11:45:54 AM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: mom of young patriots

I live within commuting distance. The Californuts are the reason property taxes are so ridiculously high. Exactly, they come here to get out of CA but immediately turn us into what they left. They don’t know a tax they don’t want.


33 posted on 10/29/2016 11:47:31 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Wolfie

The church did take up the slack. The bought the bums a bus ticket to a better place for them. Better climate, the local government enjoys them, and they get outta their box, see a little bit of Texas out the bus window.

But you sound nice, send me an address and I bet we could send a few your way.


34 posted on 10/29/2016 11:49:31 AM PDT by DesertRhino (November 8th. AMERICA'S BREXIT!)
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To: sparklite2

And they didn’t cultivate bums either. Support them and you get more of them. There are 4 good highways and two rail lines leading out of Amarillo.
And buses.


35 posted on 10/29/2016 11:52:52 AM PDT by DesertRhino (November 8th. AMERICA'S BREXIT!)
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To: IC Ken

“In the 1970’s when a mental patient was released in NYC they were offered a one way ticket to California.”

Well, they are the land of fruits and nuts.


36 posted on 10/29/2016 11:55:45 AM PDT by tuffydoodle ("Never underestimate the total depravity of the average human being.")
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To: bgill

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dragworm
In Austin, they’re referred to as drag worms and it’s about the friendliest city in Texas for derelicts.


37 posted on 10/29/2016 11:56:37 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Wolfie

The church DID pick up the slack. They used ministry money, not taxpayer funds, to buy the bus tickets. The guy is happy, both cities are happy. It was a win-win-win all the way around.


38 posted on 10/29/2016 12:00:41 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: bgill

Austin is the San Francisco of Texas, or as I like to call it Hanoi in the Hill Country.


39 posted on 10/29/2016 12:02:08 PM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: bgill

Hey, they’re just helping Keep Ausin Weird!


40 posted on 10/29/2016 12:04:57 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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