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'Obamaville' sign posted near homeless camp
kjct.8.com ^ | 12/10/09

Posted on 12/12/2009 8:00:21 AM PST by FromLori

Someone has put a lot of thought into a welcome sign that may surprise you, it's in front of a homeless camp off I-25 in Colorado Springs.

Its message, "Welcome to Obamaville, Colorado's fastest growing community." Despite repeated calls no one could answer the question, who put up the sign?

To some homeless the sign's message says enough. Mark Limonez, a homeless man living in "tent city", says the sign doesn't make him feel good about trying to get back on his feet. "Guys are trying to work but there's not enough work out there, so they go pan handling or flag a sign" Limonez says, "I've never seen so many camps since I've been out in the streets - there's no money."

There are no logos on the front of the sign and no clues to where it comes from.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: barackobama; bho44; bhoeconomy; colorado; coloradosprings; depression; economy; fourth100days; homeless; layoffs; obama; obamaville; recession; ttiuwp; zero
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To: ffusco
Conservative need to start making these signs by the hundred and putting them at every homeless gathering spot in America.

Obama = Hoover is FAR more devastating than Obama = Carter.

41 posted on 12/12/2009 8:31:20 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied, the economy died)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Reminded me of that too. Who knows maybe all that talk of civil war will come true. With all of us sick of being taxed to death and people like these who must be figuring out to some extent it is due to his policies.

http://content.usatoday.com/topics/article/Brands/Consumer+Products/Sam+Adams/0dXZexO6FQ17L/1


42 posted on 12/12/2009 8:31:25 AM PST by FromLori (FromLori)
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To: ffusco

A slab would be cooler.....no pun intended.


43 posted on 12/12/2009 8:31:36 AM PST by OregonRancher (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints)
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To: kosciusko51

Yeah I thought about Hooverville as well.


44 posted on 12/12/2009 8:32:11 AM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: Popman
Believe me, before I wind up in a homeless camp, not that I am even close, but you never know, I will be in DC throwing my "Representatives" out into the streets to be tarred and feathered and would not mind seeing a few traitorous ones hung in the street

Hope they don't lose their heads......in the pursuit of socialism...../s

45 posted on 12/12/2009 8:32:59 AM PST by cbkaty (I may not always post...but I am always here......)
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To: 6SJ7
They’re not homeless, they’re carbon neutral.

Not anymore. Exhaling is a pollutant.

46 posted on 12/12/2009 8:33:01 AM PST by MaxMax (Obamao can't play in the Olympic reindeer games)
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To: FromLori

Great find Lori.


47 posted on 12/12/2009 8:33:30 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: headstamp 2

I notice this is not a national story like it was when President Bush was in office all the national media made huge deals of it then.

http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHNQ_enUS345US345&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=homeless+in+america+bushville


48 posted on 12/12/2009 8:33:58 AM PST by FromLori (FromLori)
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To: FromLori


49 posted on 12/12/2009 8:35:59 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

THAT is the comparison I’ve been making since Obama came, saw, and destroyed our nation: Potterville and Griff-ville from “Back to the Future.”

You can feel it—a whole nation turned into a criminals’ paradise.


50 posted on 12/12/2009 8:36:59 AM PST by madison10
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Choices have consequences, and many chose this looser. Now the whole country is suffering, because of it. Obama voters: do us all a favor, next time, stay home.


51 posted on 12/12/2009 8:37:25 AM PST by Colorado Cowgirl (God bless America!)
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To: stockpirate

Dictators have no friends; only sacrifices.


52 posted on 12/12/2009 8:39:11 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: nutmeg

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53 posted on 12/12/2009 8:39:19 AM PST by nutmeg (Rush Limbaugh & Sarah Palin agree: NO third parties! Take back the GOP)
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To: stockpirate
In WV they are laying off 500 coal miners,

Only 500? They got off lightly.

54 posted on 12/12/2009 8:42:36 AM PST by Professional Engineer (Will Algore give me carbon credits for using treehuggers as home heating fuel? ~~ Galt/Reardon 2012)
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To: cbkaty
Guess, I should amend my tag line to:

Election 2010: Congress, your pink slips guillotines are coming ...............

/ s

55 posted on 12/12/2009 8:44:10 AM PST by Popman (Election 2010: Congress, your pink slips are coming ...............)
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To: FromLori
I'll have to make one this weekend...

:)


56 posted on 12/12/2009 8:46:52 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: Popman
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 25% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President.

Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -16. That’s the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President (see trends).

57 posted on 12/12/2009 8:46:57 AM PST by cbkaty (I may not always post...but I am always here......)
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To: 6SJ7

“They’re not homeless, they’re carbon neutral.”

Folks, I hereby nominate this “Post of the year”. Can I get a second?


58 posted on 12/12/2009 8:50:02 AM PST by PA-RIVER
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To: PA-RIVER

I second.


59 posted on 12/12/2009 8:50:51 AM PST by Scotswife
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To: bray; cbkaty
Here's another one for you... :)

Obamaville


60 posted on 12/12/2009 8:51:11 AM PST by Bon mots
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