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The Obama "give away" causes a near riot.

Healthcare is going to a mess, and is nothing more than affirmative action care for people who won't pay it.

1 posted on 10/08/2009 10:13:56 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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I guess this is what Gephardt meant about “winning life’s lottery”


2 posted on 10/08/2009 10:15:46 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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“People fighting over a line; people threatening to shoot each other — is this what we’ve come to?”

Yes.


3 posted on 10/08/2009 10:16:59 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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People push their way into Cobo Center after the doors open. The city stopped distributing applications before noon amid unruly behavior that drew 150 police to the scene, mayhem that seemed to reflect the desperation of a city with 28.7 percent unemployment.

People surround the Cobo entrance. The city had relocated the program on the failed hope the convention hall could accommodate the demand.

People fill out relief applications on a police car. Some 60,000 residents over two days applied for federal assistance, but the city will only be able to help about 3,400 families with incomes below $35,000.

4 posted on 10/08/2009 10:17:37 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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Barack Hussein Obama

MMMM...MMMM...MMMM


5 posted on 10/08/2009 10:17:51 AM PDT by reagandemocrat
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It’s hard to express my disgust at what this bunch has done to our great nation in less than a year.
6 posted on 10/08/2009 10:18:34 AM PDT by colorado tanker (Barack Obama is an old Kenyan word for Jimmy Carter)
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Sound clip from Rush: “We don’ know where he got da money but he gonna give it to us.”! Yea Obama!!


7 posted on 10/08/2009 10:18:48 AM PDT by luvbach1 (Worse than we could have imagined.)
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Just like pigs at a trough. Democrats have established quite a farm.

Be afraid.

8 posted on 10/08/2009 10:19:42 AM PDT by SaveTheChief (Obama lied, America died.)
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Fired Up! Ready to Go!


9 posted on 10/08/2009 10:20:51 AM PDT by maggief
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A quick internet search leads to the following article from Feb.:

No matter how little money Americans, particularly Michiganders, are making, they will always find the cash to pay for what they don't need.

Whether it be cigarettes, sex or booze, we always manage to fit it all into the budget. It's terrible, but damn it, we cannot live without supporting our vices.

Despite a slumping economy and a rapidly declining population, liquor and wine sales in our state are skyrocketing. We're finally neglecting beer for the harder stuff. As they say, "Beer is sincere, but liquor is quicker," and we're living proof.

10 posted on 10/08/2009 10:21:57 AM PDT by Onelifetogive (Liberals are always one genocide away from Utopia.)
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“Walt Williams, 51, arrived at Cobo before sunrise to get a good spot for the 10 a.m. opening of the doors. “This morning, I seen the curtain pulled back on the misery,” a bewildered Williams said.”

“People fighting over a line; people threatening to shoot each other — is this what we’ve come to?”

This man was pretty articulate. Most people on the fly could not come up with these comments when a reporter is standing there.

Yes Mr. Williams this is what liberalism brought to Detroit, Michigan and now Obama’s USA. Black people have been pawned and used by the Democrats. This is the gangsta culture that rappers and white liberal entertainment business owners have promoted.

The Democrat Party is evil. They are destroying America and people’s lives.


11 posted on 10/08/2009 10:22:16 AM PDT by Frantzie (Do we want ACORN running America's health care?)
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"People fighting over a line; people threatening to shoot each other -- is this what we've come to?"

Not everyone has, but certainly "you people" seem to have.

13 posted on 10/08/2009 10:23:31 AM PDT by Onelifetogive (Liberals are always one genocide away from Utopia.)
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Another heartwarming scene from the DemoRat plantation.
16 posted on 10/08/2009 10:24:53 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
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The Obama "give away" causes a near riot.

I'm concerned as to what the riots will look like when 95% of 65,000 people learn that they're getting Jack Squat.

17 posted on 10/08/2009 10:25:20 AM PDT by wbill
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18 posted on 10/08/2009 10:25:25 AM PDT by Vasilli22
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“We love 0bama, but we better hurry anyway.

Pie might be all gone ‘fore we get some.”


20 posted on 10/08/2009 10:26:35 AM PDT by paulycy (Screw the RACErs)
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The scum who defaulted on debts, participated in CFC and first time home buyer programs are no different.

26 posted on 10/08/2009 10:31:18 AM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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"federal program that pays a few hundred to a few thousand dollars to low-income residents to help pay rent and utilities."


28 posted on 10/08/2009 10:31:54 AM PDT by Fast Ed97 (Is it bad when you start to miss the Clinton years?)
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True story. Several years ago in Richmond, VA, one of the suburban school systems decided to give away several hundred four-year-old worn-out Apple laptops, because they were switching to Dell. The laptops were worth maybe $300 or so, if that (assuming all the parts were there and they were in decent condition).

Well when the announcement was made, there was such interest from all over the world, they moved the distribution to the Virginia State Fairgrounds and restricted it to Henrico County residents only. The day of the giveaway, my wife went down there—we figured, hey, why not, right? Free laptop. Can’t hurt to at least check it out, maybe we’d get lucky.

She got there two hours early and there was a huge traffic snarl. There were at least THREE THOUSAND people waiting for maybe 500 laptops, and let’s just say that a rather rough crowd had pushed their way to the front of the line at the gates. She kept right on driving and came back home, and we were glad for it.

When they opened the gates, a stampede erupted. Old women were knocked over. Elderly on crutches, canes, and walkers were trampled. Wheelchairs were upended. All for laptops that had dead batteries, missing components, scratched screens, and busted keys. But they were FREE, dammit.

There is a subculture—largely but not exclusively urban, largely but nowhere near exclusively black—that will run over their own mother for anything “free.” It’s not a racial thing. It’s not a north/south/east/west thing. It’s the result of seventy-five years of New Deal liberalism and forty-five years of the “War on Poverty” conditioning people that THEY are the ones that deserve first shot at ANY handout, no matter what is is, no matter if it’s even useful to them. If they’d do that for a busted-up four-year-old laptop that won’t run modern software, what’ll they do for honest-to-goodness “free” money?

It was a real eye-opener.

}:-)4


36 posted on 10/08/2009 10:42:13 AM PDT by Moose4 (Ted Kennedy: "If they bring up Camelot, we get to bring up the lady in the lake.")
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Like all gov't programs, it will take eons actually to get the money out the door.

And like virtually all gov't benefit programs, they humiliate and de-humanize the applicants.
37 posted on 10/08/2009 10:43:31 AM PDT by kenavi (No legislation longer than the Constitution.)
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yes, but generally when the Democrats pass out their Walkin’ Around Money it doesn’t generate these great Photo Ops....


38 posted on 10/08/2009 10:49:49 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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