I hate to say this, but this is done with ACORN all the time and no one with the exception of some “talking heads” at FOX seems to care. I would LOVE for someone to prove me wrong.

I_AM_ME on December 9, 2009 at 11:20 am

Wayne Clearwater – you must be a commie lib. I don’t know any conservatives who think like that. Did you miss your favorite website, the Daily Kooks, and inadvertently end up here? You have just explained through your comments why there are twice as many conservatives than there are liberals in the U.S.

Conservatives have helped the poor for a very long time, just in a different manner. The morons on the left want to give lifetime entitlements to people in order to get their votes and gain power over the general populace. Conservatives want to help the disadvantaged by giving them the means to get out of their situation and to become self sufficient without the need for gov’t handouts.

Go back to your cesspool of liberal miscreants, we don’t want your kind stinking up the place Wayne. One of the good things about libs commenting here is that it is fun to laugh at their inane bante and sophomoric wit.

Jarhead on December 9, 2009 at 11:47 am

I am not a goddam liberal! The homeless are homeless by choice. They are NOT victims of ANYTHING and do not deserve anyone’s sympathy. They had their chances just like everyone else. And I’m not going to pay them to sleep on the streets and urinate in their pants in public.

Are you going to argue with Reagan, Gingrich, AND Limbaugh? What kind of cafeteria conservative does that make you?

Though we might agree about that Dan Quayle.

My boys are backing me op on this one:

Newt Gingrich
http://www.quotemeonit.com/gingrich.html
“When asked: What should we do about the homeless? ‘Give the park police more ammo.'”

Rush Limbaugh
http://www.geocities.com/jackchick_2000/quote.html
“One of the things I want to do before I die is conduct the homeless olympics…the 10-metre shopping cart relay, the dumpster dig, and the hop, skip, and trip.” — Rush Limbaugh

Ronald Reagan
“You can’t help those who simply will not be helped. One problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, is people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless who are homeless, you might say, by choice.”
— President Reagan, 1/31/84, on Good Morning America, defending his administration against charges of callousness.

Dan Quayle
http://paul.merton.ox.ac.uk/misc/dan-quayle.html
“People are not homeless if they’re sleeping in the streets of their own hometowns.”

Newt Gingrich
http://www.conservativeforum.org/authquot.asp?ID=1
“You can help Sam or Sally, you can’t help the class. The minute somebody says to you, ‘Let’s help the homeless,’ you know they don’t get it.” — Sep. 01, 1994 – from an article in Commentary Magazine

Wayne Clearwater on December 9, 2009 at 12:24 pm

The reason why most people are homeless is because they choose between shelter or their addiction. Most homeless people are considered mentally disabled or indigent. These homeless people scam the system by getting their SSI or SSD checks. They can get Social Security Supplemental income for their addiction. Since they are addicted and can’t function in society they get a check. Good taxpayer money thrown in the toilet. They also get food stamps and food from pantrys. They usually have free health care through Medicaid. Most cities have subsidized Section 8 housing for low income and indigent people. What happens is junkies and alcoholics will spend their cash money on drugs and liquor. Even if they got $10,000 a month they will still feel any money spent on a apartment or room is less money on drugs.

CaliforniaScreaming on December 9, 2009 at 2:36 pm

In the picture Granholm sure is lookin’ at Kingpin with starry eyes – love struck, I’d say- how cute is that?? We should have a caption contest.

DS_ROCKS! on December 9, 2009 at 3:40 pm

Liberal (so-called liberal) big government shelters are infested with bed bugs, criminals, probably diseases, and the state employed workers do not care at all about helping people especially young males.

Churches and synagogues actually help people by providing a clean and stress free environment that encourages people to get their lives together. Most importantly they do not ask questions and or force people to live and or do things that State run agencies like DSS may ask of them.

One is governed by codependency (a brutal disease btw) the other is governed by interdependence or for your own independence and freedom.

Dave on April 11, 2016 at 12:50 pm