50k line-up for homeless-help requests in Detroit
Video at link. This is really sad. Detroit is in crisis and winter is upon us.
Homeless Help Request Overwhelms City
Thousands Denied Homeless Applications
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
2:21 pm EDT October 7, 2009
DETROIT -- The city of Detroit has turned away thousands of people who lined up Wednesday for a chance to receive stimulus money set aside for homeless and low-income residents.
Wednesday at the Cobo Hall was the last day for Detroit residents to get an application for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program stimulus money.
The city said an overwhelming 50,000 people came to the center seeking money that was promised to keep low-income residents from losing their homes and finding temporary housing for the homeless. The massive crowds created a fire and safety hazard and forced the Detroit Police Department to shut down the entire process.
"The line was so long that we couldn't even get in here. And look, there are people all over the place, this is getting crazy here. We need help here," said Detroit resident Yvonne Crandell.
The crowd got so rowdy at one point that people were fainting and fighting. The Detroit Police Gang was called.
DPS also requested that the Salvation Army's Emergency Disaster Services team, which is trained to help law enforcement deal with a disaster, come to the Cobo Hall to help deal with the crowds.
The teams are distributing food and other relief to people waiting in line.
More than 20,000 applications were handed out Tuesday at six neighborhood city hall locations. Residents had one last chance to get an application Wednesday at the Cobo Hall, but after only one hour of opening its doors, the city ran out of forms.
Asia Johnson was the first person in line at the Cobo Hall.
"Yes, I'm No. 1 and I've been in line since 10 o'clock p.m. last night," said Johnson.
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A simple fix
Send 40 thousand troops to Afghanistan.
That will address the problem, right?
If it doesn't, then bailout a couple of more banks so the CEO's can get their bonuses. That should work. right?
Ok no
Then arrest thousands of people per year for using cannabis. Make them non-productive, unable to take care of their families, unable to be consumers that pay taxes, THEN use more tax money to pay for their incarceration. That should take care of the homeless problem.
See, just put a little thought into it, problem solved!
"I don't endorse anything they say"
~Ron Paul On the 911 Truth movement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGyhlNY0y1k
full circle
Can we get the cannibis from Afghanistan?
Maybe ship it around the country on some C130s?
I hear they got a good crop growing these days, and we could try to market some of the extra poppy products.
Support the troops...buy Afghani drugs.
I think of this every time I'm in a big city!
I was in Houston awhile ago. Didn't know until I got there that it was the fourth largest city in America. The scope of the place is just huge!
On top of that, it seems that no one knows how to (or cares enough to) cook. There are more restaurants than I've ever seen before! We started playing 'count the Mexican restaurants' because the sheer numbers in 'count the restaurants' was too great!
My point is...what happens in cities like Houston (Los Angeles, NYC, Chicago...) when any sort of catastrophe hits? What happens when those restaurants don't get supplies? Or the supermarkets?
Detroit is kinda whimpy when it comes to population. They don't even make the top ten and look at the trouble they are having.
What happens when the same situation occurs in NYC? Or L. A.?
You'll be talking about some major sh*t then! People will scream for martial law.
And they'll get it.
I may not know the truth, but I know when I'm being lied to...
I may not know the truth, but I know when I'm being lied to...
Detroit use to be #4 most
Detroit use to be #4 most populous city until white flight.
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A recent history of the US economy - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzze9xCPuok
I can speculate that "what happens" is probably about the same
as in any city where the distribution system has been wrecked, at least on some more or less temporary basis. During Rita and Ike (especially during Ike), food and fuel were in short supply. Rita (which decided to hit elsewhere) actually caused a lot of suffering for those people who decided to obey the civil authorities and leave the area. Ike brought lines of people waiting for food and water to be delivered and distributed by the civil authorities. Those who were prepared suffered either little or not at all. Those who were unprepared (and got hit) had varying degrees of difficulty. Those stranded along the side of the road (no gas, no food, no water) were the worst affected.
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"An economy built on fiat money is a society on its way to ashes."
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"An economy built on fiat money is a society on its way to ashes."
Soylent Green...
...is people!
LastAmerican: Is anything like this happening in Jersey?
in Camden, Newark, or Trenton?
You have some large cities as well. Is there anything of this sort being reported?
Nothing that I've heard of....
I'm very close to Newark.... closer than I would like, frankly.
My brother is a corrections officer in So. Jersey and he keeps me posted of the goings-on down south and he's said nothing of Camden or Trenton.
They are all considered ''bad places' that you should avoid but no spark has set off their powder keg yet.
I may not know the truth, but I know when I'm being lied to...
I may not know the truth, but I know when I'm being lied to...
Thanks Steve.
I think it's just disgusting how the Fed helps the foreign central banking systems, and other banking cronies, and allows American home owners to be on the verge of homelessness !
beesting
The tax payers should not
have to bail everyone out.If I could not pay my mortgage,I would not expect
anyone to pay it for me.
The so called "Tax Payer"
is not bailing anyone out. The debt that this country has amassed cannot possibly be paid off by the current generation. The country's children are being sold into slavery.
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What can be said of a people who would sell their own children into slavery, using the rational that it is to protect their freedom?
We have been free range slaves
since 1913.
These people are up a creek if
the source of the stim money goes bankrupt mid-winter. They need to make their way south.
Defend Liberty!
No! Go East or West.
We're tapped out of free money in the South.
Detroit got $15M to divide up. That is $300 per family for...
the 50,000 people lined up.
What is $300 going to do?
Tragic
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I guess ACORN
is too busy promoting prostitution and child sex trafficking to bother helping these homeless people.
Acorn also like to steal money.
La. prosecutor probes ACORN after embezzlement
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press Writer Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press Writer – Tue Oct 6, 5:45 pm ET
NEW ORLEANS – Louisiana's attorney general said Tuesday he has stepped up an investigation into embezzlement at ACORN nearly a decade ago, but the prosecutor and community activist group clashed over how much money was taken.
Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell claimed the figure was $5 million, but ACORN said the sum hadn't changed from slightly less than $1 million.
ACORN said its chief executive officer estimated it could cost up to $5 million to "get everything together" in the aftermath of the embezzlement, but the group's leaders claim only $948,607 was stolen.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091006/ap_on_re_us/us_acorn_mis...