Homeless Shelters Are Now Charging Rent!

by sammielee24 42 Replies latest jw friends

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  coffee_black

  I think that in some cities, the politicians do not want the homeless to be visible... hurts the image they are trying to portray...

  I think that most homeless shelters are run by people who care.... It takes money to run a shelter....especially where they serve thousands of homeless... like in Orlando. My grandson and daughter have spent a lot of time collaborating and learning from the Coallition there...They have been shown the budget... Most of the staff is volunteer... and they are only partially funded by the government. They rely on dontations for the rest. The demand is ever increasing too.

  Coffee
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  PEC

  Where are the right wing, tax the poor not the rich posters? They should be just as happy with this as with the Tea Parties. Silence, dead silence.

  Philip
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  BurnTheShips

  One single mother living in a Manhattan shelter tells The New York Times she got a letter saying she had to give up $336 of the $800 she makes each month as a cashier.

  The city says it is only charging people who can afford to pay.

  Where is the baby's father? Why are we subsidizing this?

  You know an economic system whose principal conceit is to promote equality by transferring wealth from the have-more’s to the have-less's has failed when it seeks to transfer wealth from the poor to the government.

  Besides if you want more of something like green cars, you subsidize it, but if you want to discourage something, like cigarette smoking, you tax it. Well, why not a poverty tax?

  INCOMING!

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  OUTLAW

  Well, why not a poverty tax?

  ....................................................LOL@Burns!!.................Tax poor people,for being poor?..........That is insanely funny..I`m surprised some idiot has`nt tryed it..LOL!!..............................OUTLAW
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  FlyingHighNow

  If you want to help someone to leave, don't shoot that someone in the foot.
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  BurnTheShips

  And how appropriate that the place is called the Clinton Family Inn. Now, with all the outrage, it actually boggles the mind how few liberals would ACTUALLY share their home or income to house the poor they supposedly care about.

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  FlyingHighNow

  Now, with all the outrage, it actually boggles the mind how few liberals would ACTUALLY share their home or income to house the poor they supposedly care about.

  BTS

  From persoanal experience, I profoundly disagree.
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  BurnTheShips

  Unfortunately, statistical data conflicts with your personal experience, FHN.
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  FlyingHighNow

  Burn, there is no way you can produce statistical data to back up your statement. I know a group of well to do liberals in my city who pay most of, and sometimes all of the rent of several families. They also cook breakfast for and help with employment and more to the homeless. I opened my home over the years to three homeless nephews, two homeless couples and my two grandsons, one of whom is still with me. We get help from liberals.
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  BurnTheShips

  Burn, there is not way you can produce statistical data to back up your statement.

  I do not question your personal experience FHN, or that generous liberals exist, but overall, what I have said is backed up by solid evidence.

  Here is an article written by a liberal in last December's New York Times:

  Bleeding Heart Tightwads

  By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

  Published: December 20, 2008

  This holiday season is a time to examine who’s been naughty and who’s been nice, but I’m unhappy with my findings. The problem is this: We liberals are personally stingy.

  Liberals show tremendous compassion in pushing for generous government spending to help the neediest people at home and abroad. Yet when it comes to individual contributions to charitable causes, liberals are cheapskates.

  Arthur Brooks, the author of a book on donors to charity, “Who Really Cares,” cites data that households headed by conservatives give 30 percent more to charity than households headed by liberals. A study by Google found an even greater disproportion: average annual contributions reported by conservatives were almost double those of liberals.

  That is what I call hypocrisy. Most liberals don't put their money where their mouth is, they leave it to the nanny state to fix all problems.

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