Author Topic: skid row homeless shelter starts charging fees  (Read 1286 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline franksolich

  • Scourge of the Primitives
  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 58722
  • Reputation: +3102/-173
skid row homeless shelter starts charging fees
« on: June 02, 2011, 12:32:02 PM »
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SKID_ROW_SHELTER_FEES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-06-02-06-13-15

Oh my.

It's from the Associated Press, hence no copy-and-paste.

But in summary, it's about a homeless shelter in Los Angeles that is now charging visitors $7 a night.
apres moi, le deluge

Milo Yiannopoulos "It has been obvious since 2016 that Trump carries an anointing of some kind. My American friends, are you so blind to reason, and deaf to Heaven? Can he do all this, and cannot get a crown? This man is your King. Coronate him, and watch every devil shriek, and every demon howl."

Offline Eupher

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24894
  • Reputation: +2835/-1828
  • U.S. Army, Retired
Re: skid row homeless shelter starts charging fees
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2011, 12:36:15 PM »
You mean the freeloaders lazy chumps drug addicts those who are down on their luck actually have to acknowledge that somebody's paying for their free room and board?

Oh, the horrors!
Adams E2 Euphonium, built in 2017
Boosey & Co. Imperial Euphonium, built in 1941
Edwards B454 bass trombone, built 2012
Bach Stradivarius 42OG tenor trombone, built 1992
Kanstul 33-T BBb tuba, built 2011
Fender Precision Bass Guitar, built ?
Mouthpiece data provided on request.

Offline franksolich

  • Scourge of the Primitives
  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 58722
  • Reputation: +3102/-173
Re: skid row homeless shelter starts charging fees
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2011, 12:38:35 PM »
You mean the freeloaders lazy chumps drug addicts those who are down on their luck actually have to acknowledge that somebody's paying for their free room and board?

Oh, the horrors!

As it's pointed out in the article, many of the homeless are on the social security disability gravy-train, circa $845 a month in California.
apres moi, le deluge

Milo Yiannopoulos "It has been obvious since 2016 that Trump carries an anointing of some kind. My American friends, are you so blind to reason, and deaf to Heaven? Can he do all this, and cannot get a crown? This man is your King. Coronate him, and watch every devil shriek, and every demon howl."

Offline JohnnyReb

  • In Memoriam
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 32063
  • Reputation: +1998/-134
Re: skid row homeless shelter starts charging fees
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2011, 12:41:53 PM »
$7 dollars a night...30 days in a month...$210 a month rent. Hey, they should be full up every night.
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."  Stalin

Offline FiddyBeowulf

  • "Its on, its off, its on, its off." "That is called blinking, boys."
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5271
  • Reputation: +523/-34
Re: skid row homeless shelter starts charging fees
« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2011, 01:09:13 PM »
$7 dollars a night...30 days in a month...$210 a month rent. Hey, they should be full up every night.
There is a lot of booze and smokes $210 can buy in a month. Or not as much  :stoner:
Fire...BAD!!! - John Fetterman


The policies that are indorsed by this party, that they backer of which are much of the 1 percent, causes a social structure much like the one back before the Revolution.

-Words of wisdom from Lady Freedom Returns

"Arguing with liberals...it's like playing chess with a pigeon; no matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock over the pieces, crap on the board and strut around like it's victorious." -- Anonymous

"A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat." - P. J. O'Rourke

Offline vesta111

  • In Memoriam
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 9712
  • Reputation: +493/-1154
Re: skid row homeless shelter starts charging fees
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2011, 07:25:52 AM »
I have a little problem with this.

The Salvation Army runs soup kitchens for the hungry, it matters not if the people are in dire straits or arrive in a BMW wearing furs and expensive jewelery.   All that are hungry are fed.

Now these non profit missions that shelter those that say they need help have decided to charge money from their customers.    Does this legally mean the shelter is no longer a non profit business???

Is it the business of a shelter to do anything but shelter the homeless??   Is it their business to do more then provide a bed, a cot and 3 hots???

Where did the shelters go from asking no questions and have an open door for those in need???
When did the shelters get into the business of social engineering and decide whats best for their clients.

Interesting, how the liberal establishment with feed the poor can come around to feed them if they can pay.    Give shelter to those that need it, ask for it, but check their bank account first.

A true shelter never asks for payment for their services, In the middle of a snow storm do our churches bar the homeless from seeking shelter over night unless they can pay the church first????

" We love you Brother, you are cold, homeless and need to keep from freezing to death.  We do not judge you, you may spend the night.------However you must cross our palms with silver to gain entrance to your salvation from the cold, entrance to this shelter.  On your way buster, what, you want something for nothing.????