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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Tucker on September 11, 2010, 08:42:57 PM
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zeitgeist had this embedded in another thread. It needs its own thread as Bobo let it slip that she is on to us.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4536871
alp227 (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-11-10 07:20 PM
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Number of Families in Homeless Shelters Rises
Source: The New York Times
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — For a few hours at the mall here this month, Nick Griffith, his wife, Lacey Lennon, and their two young children got to feel like a regular family again.
Never mind that they were just killing time away from the homeless shelter where they are staying, or that they had to take two city buses to get to the shopping center because they pawned one car earlier this year and had another repossessed, or that the debit card Ms. Lennon inserted into the A.T.M. was courtesy of the state’s welfare program.
They ate lunch at the food court, browsed for clothes and just strolled, blending in with everyone else out on a scorching hot summer day. “It’s exactly why we come here,†Ms. Lennon said. “It reminds us of our old life.â€
For millions who have lost jobs or faced eviction in the economic downturn, homelessness is perhaps the darkest fear of all. In the end, though, for all the devastation wrought by the recession, a vast majority of people who have faced the possibility have somehow managed to avoid it.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/us/12shelter.html
awoke_in_2003 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-11-10 07:38 PM
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2. k&r...
and it only going to get worse, while most Americans ignore it. Hell, even here for that matter. One poster (an old timer) here today talked about "transient garbage". Unreal.
bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-11-10 08:23 PM
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9. And people who are too old, too sick, too injured to work?
btw, this isn't a cell phone... really, it isn't
:rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
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Oh! is that against DU rules? bitching about other DU'ers in another thread?
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bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-11-10 08:23 PM
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9. And people who are too old, too sick, too injured to work?
btw, this isn't a cell phone... really, it isn't
OMG! I thought you made that up Tucker, but she really said that.
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OMG! I thought you made that up Tucker, but she really said that.
I don't need to put words into their mouth. There's no room with a foot in it. :lmao:
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I have a friend who is on Social Security Disability, and the govt. gives her a free cell phone.
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OK, awoke from this thread has now posted this in the Detroit guy who had his home robbed thread LOL.
awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-11-10 10:03 PM
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126. Sorry to hear this...
but could you please define "transient trash" for me?
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awoke is sounding like a mole to me.
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What ? No Cellphone ?? How can she play iHobo without one ?
You think I'm kidding ? - http://www.ihobo.org/
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iPhones are so last year.
She's up to an iPad now. :fuelfire:
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alp227 (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-11-10 07:20 PM
Original message
Number of Families in Homeless Shelters Rises
Source: The New York Times
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — For a few hours at the mall here this month, Nick Griffith, his wife, Lacey Lennon, and their two young children got to feel like a regular family again.
Never mind that they were just killing time away from the homeless shelter where they are staying, or that they had to take two city buses to get to the shopping center because they pawned one car earlier this year and had another repossessed, or that the debit card Ms. Lennon inserted into the A.T.M. was courtesy of the state’s welfare program...
Damn! That must be one HUGH family!
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I have a friend who is on Social Security Disability, and the govt. gives her a free cell phone.
In D.C. they offer them free of charge to the Welfare slugs.
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zeitgeist had this embedded in another thread. It needs its own thread as Bobo let it slip that she is on to us.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4536871
:rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
Thanks for posting this I had been on the road all day so I was getting pretty cross-eyed.
I think I found a bobo wannabe today over there or maybe Vesta's mole which I posted here underDummy Food Fight. (http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,48538.0.html)
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alp227 (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-11-10 07:20 PM
Original message
Number of Families in Homeless Shelters Rises
Source: The New York Times
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — For a few hours at the mall here this month, Nick Griffith, his wife, Lacey Lennon, and their two young children got to feel like a regular family again.
Never mind that they were just killing time away from the homeless shelter where they are staying, or that they had to take two city buses to get to the shopping center because they pawned one car earlier this year and had another repossessed, or that the debit card Ms. Lennon inserted into the A.T.M. was courtesy of the state’s welfare program.
They ate lunch at the food court, browsed for clothes and just strolled, blending in with everyone else out on a scorching hot summer day. “It’s exactly why we come here,†Ms. Lennon said. “It reminds us of our old life.â€
For millions who have lost jobs or faced eviction in the economic downturn, homelessness is perhaps the darkest fear of all. In the end, though, for all the devastation wrought by the recession, a vast majority of people who have faced the possibility have somehow managed to avoid it.
Welcome to hussein's America, DUmbasses
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Welcome to hussein's America, DUmbasses
You said it. :hi5: I totally agree.
I feel bad for people that have lost their jobs or their homes, but if Obummer wanted to "fix" the job situation, it would have been done, especially with all that money in the so called, "stimulus" bill.
What's also ironic is, didn't Obummer say last week that he was going to pass a 50 billion jobs bill to help spur job growth and today his economic advisor comes on to say that unemployment will continue to remain high? Do these people really think we're stupid? Where is that money going to then if it won't help lower unemployment, the exact thing the bill is written for? I would really like to ask the administration questions like that. I can only imagine the answers I would get. :whatever:
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I especially like where the O'Bumbler keeps tellin' us he created 3 million jobs!
Ya see the kind of math they're teachin' our kids??????????
He really does think we're stoooopid!
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I especially like where the O'Bumbler keeps tellin' us he created 3 million jobs!
Ya see the kind of math they're teachin' our kids??????????
He really does think we're stoooopid!
What he doesn't say is that they're all transient, Federal jobs . . .
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I especially like where the O'Bumbler keeps tellin' us he created 3 million jobs!
Ya see the kind of math they're teachin' our kids??????????
He really does think we're stoooopid!
Of those "supposed" 3 million jobs, 2 and a half million of them are gubberment jobs. :bird:
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I thought there weren't any homeless when a dem was president.
Cindie
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I thought there weren't any homeless when a dem was president.
Cindie
They're just un-housed gubmint workers. The Bumbler is tryin' real hard to remedy the situation! He's gonna forgive 'em all for buyin' houses they couldn't afford and lyin' about their income in order to live like he does!
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I thought there weren't any homeless when a dem was president.
Cindie
The media just doesn't talk about it, doesn't mean they don't exist.
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Oh and....Bobo is on to us making fun of her????
:ohnoes: :ohnoes:
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Oh and....Bobo is on to us making fun of her????
:ohnoes: :ohnoes:
Why would she make the statement that the post wasn't made from an iPhone? She's peeking.
Hey Bobo. :tongue:
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Why would she make the statement that the post wasn't made from an iPhone? She's peeking.
Hey Bobo. :tongue:
What the HELL is wrong with a government job, State, or Town.?
Military, Police, Fireman, Defence Workers, the states have to hire workers to repair bridges, fight forest fires, give out drivers licenses, and guard our jails and prisons.
Lots of Government jobs out there of one kind or another that is very understaffed and a GED or High School diploma is all it takes to qualify.
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What the HELL is wrong with a government job, State, or Town.?
Military, Police, Fireman, Defence Workers, the states have to hire workers to repair bridges, fight forest fires, give out drivers licenses, and guard our jails and prisons.
Lots of Government jobs out there of one kind or another that is very understaffed and a GED or High School diploma is all it takes to qualify.
The taxes of the private sector pay the wages of Government workers. When happens when the number of Government works equals those in the private sector?
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What the HELL is wrong with a government job, State, or Town.?
Military, Police, Fireman, Defence Workers, the states have to hire workers to repair bridges, fight forest fires, give out drivers licenses, and guard our jails and prisons.
Lots of Government jobs out there of one kind or another that is very understaffed and a GED or High School diploma is all it takes to qualify.
Nothing wrong with Govt jobs in general however, when govt jobs outnumber private sector jobs that creates a huge problem. It would be like a huge corporation selling the final product for a dollar each and having more employees than customers.
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What the HELL is wrong with a government job, State, or Town.?
Military, Police, Fireman, Defence Workers, the states have to hire workers to repair bridges, fight forest fires, give out drivers licenses, and guard our jails and prisons.
Lots of Government jobs out there of one kind or another that is very understaffed and a GED or High School diploma is all it takes to qualify.
There is nothing wrong with a government job where something is actually accomplished which cannot be more easily and cheaply accomplished by the private sector, is fairly compensated with a realistic benefit package. But lets be real here Vesta how many jobs in the public sector match that description? UM????
Heaven knows the mail needs to be delivered but after being away a little over a week then going through the mail I received ( it was taken in an placed in a plastic tote every day along with the home delivery of the daily fish wrap ) well, guess what, there was a full tote but there were darn few pieces of mail I needed to keep.
The shredder got a pretty good workout yesterday. So what did my mailman accomplish? Highly paid with great benefit package to deliver paid advertising at a reduced rate. Now he is a nice guy and all that but really, I got most of the same ads in the local fish wrap delivered by an Amer-Asian independent contractor who gets zip for bennies from Seacoast Media Group ( trust me they get zip-it-tee-doo )
Happy birthday to Margaret Sanger (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Margaret+Sanger) btw. Let see if the dummies remember to celebrate the birth of the founder of Planned Parenthood.
Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, an advocate of negative eugenics, and the founder of the American Birth Control League (which eventually became Planned Parenthood). Initially met with fierce opposition to her ideas, Sanger gradually won some support, both in the public as well as the courts, for a woman's choice to decide how and when, if ever, she will bear children. In her drive to open the way to universal access to birth control, Sanger was ahead of her time. However, her racist ideology and advocacy for eugenics are positions which have tarnished her reputation.
She would have put Bobo the hobo out of buisness given the chance.
Sanger was a proponent of eugenics, a social philosophy that gained strong support in the United States in the early 20th century. The philosophy claimed that human hereditary traits can be improved through social intervention. Methods of social intervention (targeted at those seen as "genetically unfit") advocated by eugenists have included selective breeding, sterilization and euthanasia. In "A Plan for Peace" (1932), for example, Sanger argued for:
A stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.[13]
Her first pamphlet read:
It is a vicious cycle; ignorance breeds poverty and poverty breeds ignorance. There is only one cure for both, and that is to stop breeding these things. Stop bringing to birth children whose inheritance cannot be one of health or intelligence. Stop bringing into the world children whose parents cannot provide for them. Herein lies the key of civilization. For upon the foundation of an enlightened and voluntary motherhood shall a future civilization emerge.[14]