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Homeless Help Request Overwhelms City-Thousands Denied Homeless Applications (Detroit-50K!)
Click on Detroit ^ | 10-7-09

Posted on 10/07/2009 11:39:04 AM PDT by STARWISE

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To: STARWISE
The city said an overwhelming 50,000 people came to the center seeking money that was promised to keep low-income residents from losing their homes and finding temporary housing for the homeless.

That's about double the average Lions home game attendance.

21 posted on 10/07/2009 12:02:35 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Joe Wilson speaks for me.)
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To: MrB

The truth is that poor people in America live pretty good. And if your goals in life are really low, you can live good on welfare and government assistance. America is truly a great country!


22 posted on 10/07/2009 12:02:49 PM PDT by BertWheeler (Dance and the World Dances With You!)
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To: STARWISE

Crowds today, rioters tomorrow.


23 posted on 10/07/2009 12:02:57 PM PDT by FastCoyote (I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
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To: MrB

LOL

Found Waldo also,Waldos’ cousin in pic 17 .


24 posted on 10/07/2009 12:02:59 PM PDT by silentreignofheroes
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To: RC2

I know ... I don’t have one.


25 posted on 10/07/2009 12:03:07 PM PDT by STARWISE (The Art & Science Institute of Chicago Politics NE Div: now open at the White House)
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To: boomop1

One of our local food banks gives free food to our lower income families monthly. There are quite a few vehicles in the blocks long line that are worth far more than mine. Ticks me off big time.


26 posted on 10/07/2009 12:05:48 PM PDT by raisincane (Dims think we're all oblivious to the obvious)
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To: silentreignofheroes

The bald guy in the black gloves up by the door?
I wondered if he might also be a cop.


27 posted on 10/07/2009 12:05:57 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: BertWheeler

That’s a terrible thing to do to people, though - sap their very life force from them.

Much better if they faced hunger for not being willing to work. It would be much better for their character and for society.


28 posted on 10/07/2009 12:06:56 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: STARWISE

Coming to a city near you...this could be Philly in less than a year.


29 posted on 10/07/2009 12:07:03 PM PDT by SueRae
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To: STARWISE

I carefully checked out all 22 pictures on the link.

I saw a single white man there of all the people photoed.

He was a cop.


30 posted on 10/07/2009 12:09:16 PM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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The crowd got so rowdy at one point that people were fainting and fighting. The Detroit Police Gang was called.

Well, that was totally unexpected.

/s


31 posted on 10/07/2009 12:11:08 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Hope....Change...Bullsh*t)
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To: MrB

I agree with you but wanted to add some info.

The people who are grifters and scammers and “professional” beggars aren’t just misguided, they’re thiefs at heart. Who is truly incapable of coming to the conclusion that depending on the govt for your sustenance is bad for you? Very very few are incapable. Most of these people are hardcore grifters.


32 posted on 10/07/2009 12:11:49 PM PDT by BertWheeler (Dance and the World Dances With You!)
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To: FastCoyote

My fears exactly ... one misunderstood word,
one or two hostile folks with hairtrigger
tempers, one gun in a crowd that huge = riot.


33 posted on 10/07/2009 12:12:01 PM PDT by STARWISE (The Art & Science Institute of Chicago Politics NE Div: now open at the White House)
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To: STARWISE

I’ve never seen a building made out of Rubiks cubes before.


34 posted on 10/07/2009 12:12:09 PM PDT by SnuffaBolshevik
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To: SueRae

Coming soon to your Doctors waiting room.


35 posted on 10/07/2009 12:14:28 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: BertWheeler

The Bible addresses that, as well.
Eph 4:28
Those who have been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with their own hands, that they may have something to share with those in need.


36 posted on 10/07/2009 12:14:33 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: STARWISE
You know, it saddens me that so many people, especially African-Americans, have drank the democratic kool-aid for so long that they are completely blinded by the root causes of many of their problems. What party has controlled Detroit politics for the last 30-40 years? Or Chicago? Or East St. Louis?

It's frustrating that these people are so brainwashed that they cannot see that it is LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC POLICIES that are directly responsible for many of the hardships these people currently face.

Why are they so resistent to the truth?


37 posted on 10/07/2009 12:20:42 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Hope....Change...Bullsh*t)
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To: STARWISE

Brought to you by the Welfare State!


38 posted on 10/07/2009 12:20:54 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: raisincane

Yeah, most of the vehicles parked outside the last Toys for Tots distribution that I took note of were upscale too. The most outrageous one I saw was an Escalade with gold plated rims.

And of course cell phones everywhere.


39 posted on 10/07/2009 12:21:34 PM PDT by Let's Roll (Stop paying ACORN to destroy America! Cut off their government funding!)
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To: STARWISE

Between this and the Tigers losing - are we counting down to a riot?


40 posted on 10/07/2009 12:22:45 PM PDT by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
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