Motor City Sadhouse

[Freedom4all]

Free money in Motown yesterday? What could possibly have gone wrong?

Detroiters were trying to pick up 5,000 federal assistance applications from the city at Cobo because Detroit received nearly $15.2 million in federal dollars under the Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program, which is for temporary financial assistance and housing services to individuals and families who are homeless, or who would be homeless without this help.

They called it a “Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program†because “booze, cigarette sales & cell phone stimulus†was a little too accurate.

The odds are already bad that the truly needy will get anything at all, but then the government ran out of forms, and… well, you can guess what happened next:

By early morning, the applications had run dry. But some hustlers got the bright idea to photocopy the original and sell the copies for $20 a pop. They were doing a brisk business. The desperate are easy prey. The white original applications stated clearly on the bottom: “Do not duplicate — Must Submit Original Application.â€

And the ridiculous quote of the day:

Dan McNamara, president of the Detroit Firefighters Association Local 344, was looking down from his office window across from Cobo.

“This absolutely is representative of the struggling middle class in America,†he said. “We’ve been betrayed by the government, Realtors and those who’ve got. The promise has been broken.â€

The “struggling middle class†weren't at Cobo Hall — they are the ones who are paying for the handout and cleanup of the subsequent madness.

Heres a local news report of the event. Is that Peggy?

Gotta love those demanding "accountability" while standing in line for a hand-out. :blink:

The obligatory pic of the day...

 

[freedom]

The unemployment rate in Detroit is like 22% why would you say such horrible things about those desperate people ?

 

[Freedom4all]

The unemployment rate in Detroit is like 22% why would you say such horrible things about those desperate people ?

Yes.....and thats what we need more handouts instead of JOBS?

Get real :down:

 

[freedom]

Yes.....and thats what we need more handouts instead of JOBS?

Get real :down:

Well jobs would be great,but what your thinking of the WPA would cost at least one trillion dollars.