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The Obama Watch
Obama’s Homeless
If they were Ronald Reagan’s, they would not be ignored.
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In fact, I would expect that the total homeless for 2012, which we don’t know yet, is surely much worse than 2011, given the sharp rise in food stamps and the continuing chronic unemployment.
Either way, 636,000 homeless is stunning. They even include the likes of Erin Moran, who played “Joanie” on the 1970s hit TV show, Happy Days. And anyone who has been to any major city knows what I’m talking about. I’m seeing more homeless than I’ve ever seen before. A friend of mine told me about two Australian friends who recently visited San Francisco: “They were simply appalled at the number of homeless everywhere in the city. They commented that on almost every street there were homeless hanging out.” I saw the same recently when visiting very rich and very liberal Santa Barbara.
The homeless are everywhere, especially in cities run by liberals.
But more to my point here: Why do liberals, particularly in their media, only seem to care about the homeless when a conservative like Ronald Reagan is president? We know the answer. They use the homeless as a political weapon, and they wanted to hurt Reagan and want to help Obama. It’s that simple.
As for Obama, this is yet another awful economic indicator, but an unappreciated one. Think about it: we’re all painfully aware of the systemic unemployment, the surge in food stamps (from 32 to 47 million) and welfare (up 32 percent in four years), the record deficit, the record debt, and terrible GDP growth (1.3 percent currently). It’s the ultimate non-recovering “recovery.” And now add the homeless to this economic disaster.
Of course, I don’t expect CBS Evening News to bother itself with the homeless. I’m not naïve. However, conservatives and their media sources might want to consider doing some stories, some blogs, some video posts. Where’s Fox News? Where are the conservative bloggers and websites and magazines? Gee, it’s not like the homeless are hard to find.
About the Author
Paul Kengor is professor of political science and executive director of The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. He is author of the new book The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor. His other books include The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism and Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century.
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Jack in Wi| 10.26.12 @ 6:23AM
I deliver large amounts of food, given by generous merchants, to soup kitchens and food pantries, a couple days a week. There are hundreds of them in my city with thousands of volunteers. Even with 50 million on food stamps the food disappears fast and we can barely keep up. If this happened during a Republican administration it would be on TV everyday all day. With Obama it is all hidden.
spike59| 10.26.12 @ 6:34AM
thank you for your service to the citizens of Obamaville; the sooner we get this POS out of office and get the REAL recovery started, the lighter your load will become
TLP| 10.26.12 @ 4:09PM
The Contest is at Wednesday's Column - The Point Of Criticism.
It's the last entry for that day, so you might need to hit the "Previous" thingy.
The Contest ends at 7pm Saturday.
Join Us.
Alan Third Party Voter Brooks | 10.27.12 @ 4:08PM
Reagan's homeless were better off:
they only froze at the rate of 1 per 100,000 every winter;
while Obama's homeless freeze at the rate of 1.009 per 100,000 every winter.
ebonystone| 10.28.12 @ 11:04PM
Godd thing there has been global warming. Otherwise the increase would have been a lot higher.
ebonystone| 10.28.12 @ 11:20PM
Oops, make that "good thing"
Darin| 10.26.12 @ 6:49AM
Very cool. This is what people should do. We should take care of each other, not rely on the government to do it. Jesus' command to help others was a personal command (YOU help your neighbor), not a third-party command (take from your neighbor to give to your other neighbor).
TLP| 10.26.12 @ 8:15AM
That's really nice, Jack.
I understand that Hitler loved Animals, and the Environment. I even heard that he used to give children Candy whenever one of them came to The Reichstagg.
Unless they were Jewish.
You two could be Twins.
Maxwell| 10.26.12 @ 8:27AM
Outch!!!
TLP| 10.26.12 @ 9:27AM
Maxwell.
Contest Today.
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Win Prizes with No Cash Value.
Bill8472| 10.26.12 @ 11:09AM
But plenty of cachet with the same-sex set, right?
TLP| 10.26.12 @ 4:11PM
I get it.
Don't worry.
Homos like you are welcome at the Contest.
Bring your Lovers.
Bill8472| 10.30.12 @ 1:49PM
Along with someone for you, right?
Jack in Wi| 10.26.12 @ 10:40AM
We bring food to Jews, blacks, hispanics, orientals. But most of the food that I personally haul goes to white people. It is sad that we have wasted trillions on the Middle East, when we have millions of Americans suffering right here. It is time to end all foreign aid now. Most of it goes to criminals and kleptocrats and ends in there foreign bank accounts. Before we cut any American off his benfits it is time to bring home the troops. There hasn't been a war worth fighting since the Revolution and that may be debatable.
Bill8472| 10.26.12 @ 11:09AM
So Jack is like Hitler because he takes the trouble to help his fellow man?
What do you do?
If you do nothing for your fellow citizens, does that make you like FDR?
TLP| 10.26.12 @ 4:15PM
Jack is Hitler because of his views in Jews?
Is this you're First Day on this site, Dumbass?
Bill8472| 10.30.12 @ 1:49PM
Yes, my first day, and I'm learning a LOT about you, cutie-pie.
Stan Redmond| 10.26.12 @ 12:55PM
Normally I ignore you but this is low. You're really really low.
TLP| 10.26.12 @ 4:13PM
You talking to me?
Cause if Jack is "Bringing Food to Jews?
I guarantee he's bringing them Ham Sandwiches.
Jack in Wi| 10.26.12 @ 6:52PM
No actually I get a lot of bagels and bring a few packages to some poor Jews I know. It isn't very often, because although they are poor they are still better off then some of the others. Your just a nasty bigot TLP. Well what do you expect from someone who thinks people who aren't Jews in the Middle East are vermin to be exterminated. Most of the Jews I know don't follow much of the old dietary laws. They seem to have a liking for barbaque pigs just like a lot of other people. Occam here stuffs in pounds of bacon every week. That is why he is a 400 pound slob who can't even see his feet.
TLP| 10.26.12 @ 6:57PM
I just got called: A Bigot, by Jack in Wi. concerning Jews.
Apparently, I fell asleep, and woke up in an Alternate Universe.
Go figure.
Bill8472| 10.30.12 @ 1:50PM
Jack in Wi should be blessed for his restraint.
Bill8472| 10.30.12 @ 1:51PM
You woke up there because that's where you live, lambie.
RCV| 10.29.12 @ 1:23AM
You are, TLP. Tell us again how God sent Hitler and the Holocaust to punish and cleanse the Jews.
Nina in MA| 10.28.12 @ 12:21PM
Kudos to you. Too bad Michelle didn't take a page out of your book...instead she thinks its more important to dole out veggies and fruits to kids in schools who just throw it in the trash..making the cafeteria staff make foods that kids just don't like, won't eat, and only on one meal a day..she thinks she can force kids to become vegetarians by serving veggies to them. Time and effort would be better spent on supplying that food to the people who don't even get one meal a day!
Joellen| 10.26.12 @ 6:37AM
At the expense of "offending" I forget who it was, I'll reiterate what I wrote earlier this week by stating this article validates what I said earlier this week. We need to "clean" out not only the Goverment, but the media, educational system and hollyweird fraternities that have been "infested" by the liberal progessive cults. We need to use the strongest anti bacterial soap to remove the stench, germs and scum that have permeated these entities for the last 60 years. It's going to take a lot of scrubbing on America's part, but it can be done and when we are finished, we will have the "Shining City on the Hill". November 6th is CLEAN OUT DAY for Patriots.
Appleby| 10.26.12 @ 6:48AM
Ronald Reagan once said that if every church in America took responsibility for five homeless people, homelessness would vanish overnight. Our church is in Kanukistan, but it takes responsibility for nobody. I have never seen any outreach -- they spend their money on capital improvements. But this is Kanukistan, where the overwhelming concensus is that the government should Feed His Sheep. The church needs its money for a portable stage in the parish hall. If you go to church, does your church feed the hungry, clothe the nekkid and comfort the afflicted?
SUBVET| 10.26.12 @ 9:18AM
So the queen of catholics does your church mandate that you bring your bible to the church service so you can follow the pastor as the WORD is being taught.
Ya I know I am going to catch hell from you catholics but think about it.
Parker| 10.26.12 @ 9:59AM
I am not going to let you get away with spouting your ignorant anti-Roman Catholic rant. You obviously know nothing of whether or not "The Word," is preached, which in fact, it is. Just so you know, EVERY SINGLE Catholic worship service has 3 readings from the Bible. One Old Testament, One Epistle and One Gospel. In addition, there are numerous Psalms sung and read throughout a Roman Catholic Mass and the Risen Christ is Glorified, Worshipped and Adored from beginning to end. Now - you numbskull, shut your stupid asinine mouth and go sit in your favorite pew while you participate in nothing more than a drawn out lecture class with a great big dose of entertainment on Sunday mornings. You are a fool and an ignorant fool at that. If you want to condemn, judge and divide an House of the Lord, do it in your own hovel. But don't talk about, judge or condemn things and persons, you obviously know nothing about. If you left the Catholic Church, good riddance and stay out! but keep your ignorance to yourself.
SUBVET| 10.26.12 @ 10:12AM
Bless you too Parker............you didn't answer my question about the Bible.
Drink some ice water before you answer.
Parker| 10.26.12 @ 10:23AM
Well, dipstick, we have missals which contain the daily readings. But then, your accusation was that the Word wasn't taught. Anyone is free to bring a Bible, but the written word is available and preached. So shut up and stick your head in a bucket of ice water.
Jack in Wi| 10.26.12 @ 10:49AM
The Bible comes from the Catholic Church. It was assembled by the Church from the most authentic and oldest of the writing of the Apostles for the New Testament. The Old Testament parts come from the Jewish Septuagint, Greek translation, which is the same Book that Jesus and the Apostles used. The readings have been used in the Cathoic Mass since the early beginnings of Christianity. The whole Catholic religion is based on the Bible which is just one of many tools the Chruch has used to spread the Good News to the whole world. I suggest you get a Catholic Catechism. It will explain the teaching of the Church and is backed up with Biblical citations to support them.
SUBVET| 10.26.12 @ 11:06AM
As usual Jack you didn't answer the question and it wasen't for you...Mr. know it all.
Like I said yesterday.....step - up.
Parker| 10.26.12 @ 10:21AM
Furthermore, a Catholic Worship service is just that a Worship service. Wherein, participants are there to Pray, Listen to the Word, Receive Grace, and Worship the Risen Christ whose sacrifice and victory over sin and death is the only way to salvation. A Catholic Worship service is not a lecture service. We have weekly Bible studies for more in-depth study. We also operate food pantries. We have missions all over the world. We have Catholic Social Services; And every single member receives a copy of the Bible upon completion of their catechesis and they are encouraged to read it, study it and learn it through a wide variety of Bible study courses.
We operate parochial schools as well. Your church? I suppose the vast majority of your 'bible totin' members recommend public education for your children? But then a good Sunday lecture should serve well to undo all the brainwashing you subject your children receive throughout the week? I don't know why I waste My time with ignorant dolt's, like yourself, but suffering fools is one of my many weaknesses. So, let's hear what you got bubble head.
SUBVET| 10.26.12 @ 11:03AM
Parker.....names..names..names, is this part of your Sunday you pray, listen to the word, receive grace, and most of all worship the Risen Christ ?
So let me ask you how is your walk with the Lord doing?
First of all my friend the Bible question was for Appleby. She is a practicing catholic and hates mormons. She has posted it many times. [no I am not a mormon] Again I was just questoning her walk.
Now back to you.......no one was questoning your faith or religion just a simple question about if your pastor was "teaching" the word from the bible not "preaching" the word.
Now let's see if you can answer this DOLTS question without all the adjectives.
drudge ette obama| 10.27.12 @ 8:13AM
I doubt that Appleby hates Mormons, but reading this series of comments draws me to one conclusion: Subvet harbors severe antagonism against Catholics. Well, Subvet, you are not alone in your fervent dislike of Catholics, but it can't be based on the mass ritual alone? Why on earth would you focus on whether a Bible is read by a minister or talked about by a priest. Either way seems appropriate for an hour a week service.
Bill8472| 10.26.12 @ 11:12AM
I see large numbers of Presbyterians bringing their Bibles to Presbyterian services every Sunday.
The Roman Catholic, until rather recently, discouraged Catholics lay people from reading the Bible, holding that it is best for the priesthood to mediate between the worshipper and God, and to explain God's word to the worshipper pursuant to Church dogma, which the priests were expected to know better than the lay person.
SUBVET| 10.26.12 @ 11:44AM
Thanks Bill for the clarification...I was trying to get Parker to think outside the box.
bless you........
CJW| 10.26.12 @ 7:54PM
I do not understand your question or your point. Can you be more clear. What is your point , what are you arguing about?
Nina in MA| 10.29.12 @ 11:34AM
Okay, I have to ask...what does this have to do with helping the homeless? I'm not catholic so don't go there...just wondering why bringing a bible to church services/mass is necessary to feed the hungry, clothe the needy..?
Bill8472| 10.30.12 @ 1:56PM
It's not; worshipful people often do that when they join with others to worship.
You see, there's worshipping God, then there's getting together to take God's message to others, as in bringing food to the hungry, running shelters and soup kitchens, stuff like that.
Bill8472| 10.30.12 @ 1:52PM
No, the Roman Catholic doesn't mandate that.
They don't mandate a heck of a lot in other areas either, for that matter.
michaelannb| 10.26.12 @ 7:52AM
As a community organizer who works a lot with homeless people, that's not my experience. I was sitting in a homeless shelter lunchroom when Clinton gave his inaugural speech just SURE he would mention homelessness-- but he didn't. And NO president since then has prioritized ending homelessness. EVERY president has continued with Reagan's cuts to the HUD budget, which, once upon a time, actually produced affordable housing. Most homeless advocates I know have no kind words for any recent president as it regards the lack of investment in housing.
nathan| 10.26.12 @ 9:43AM
Sir: Sorry name a federal program, that doesn't have a minimum of of 30 percent waste, fraud, and mismanagement in it. Name a federal program that does it better than a well managed private sector program.
Take people living in Virginia giving money to the federal government for any federal "benevolence" program. So they send 100 dollars across the Potomac River to the appropriate agency in DC for education, housing, name your favorite "benevolence" program. How much of that 100 dollars is going to make it back across the river and actually get spent in Virginia on "benevolence"? 70? 60? If you're lucky based on what we know about the federal government, maybe 70 at most.
So why not, for any and all "benevolence" spending, just let taxpayers in the states they are in, keep that 100 and donate it to local programs where the oversight is better and there is less waste? Tell me where I'm wrong here. In every case doing it at the local level with private groups gives you more "bang for the buck" than the federal government will ever do. We all know this.
When FDR introduced the New Deal programs governors, dem and rep alike argued against saying they could deal with the poor more effectively at the local level and in fact that had been the model up to that time.
drudge ette obama| 10.27.12 @ 8:15AM
The money bleed with large government programs is a waste of time - my time working to pay for it and the government's time doing whatever it is they do.
Can't you get a real job?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.26.12 @ 7:56AM
To some extent, Ronald Reagan did play a role in increasing homelessness. While Governor of California, he signed legislation that was advocated by a coalition of civil libertarians and small government advocates that reduced the power of the government to involuntarily commit mentally ill individuals to state mental hospitals. As a result, many of these individuals who had previously been warehoused out of sight returned to the communities from which they came, and eventually joined the ranks of the homeless.
Of course, had he vetoed this legislation, Reagan would have been accused of increasing the number of those people who are merely sick, through no fault of their own, incarcerated unnecessarily without due process, when everyone knows that treatment in the community is the more humane, fiscally responsible approach.
Have no fear, Dr. Kengor. In the event of a Romney victory next month, by the end of January, 2013, the press will start to notice the homeless again.
TLP| 10.26.12 @ 8:21AM
But will they notice The Contest?
Have you noticed The Contest?
If you have not, but would like to? Please go to Wednesday's idiotic Column - The Point Of Criticism - written by some guy in The Matrix.
It's the last Column, so you may need the "Previous" Button to get to it.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.26.12 @ 8:26AM
Do you think you're better than me?
Been there, done that.
Mendelbaum, Mendelbaum, Mendelbaum!
nathan| 10.26.12 @ 9:53AM
Y0u sir make a good point. And not just CA. Across the country civil libertarians questioned the involuntary commitments of people based on "mental illness" and not without some justification. You will recall that the Soviet Union did exactly that for some political dissidents and there was some concern that "mental illness" could be overused especially since the definition is not precisely established. The Fifth Amendment is the Fifth Amendment and can't be ignored good intentions notwithstanding. Everyone, including people we "think" may be crazy have a right to a day in court. (That includes people we think may be the worst criminals on earth too. Madison is basically saying, "you think that, fine. Now before you incarcerate/execute, PROVE IT beyond reasonable doubt, thank you.)
Unfortunately it did result in the release of some who probably did need constant care. I see people like this all the time on my walk to work.
The problem is, free societies are "messy", tyrannical societies are far more "orderly". Freedom at all levels come at a price, including and we forget this sometimes, arguably less security.
CJW| 10.26.12 @ 7:53PM
Albert
In Pa the Mental Health Law was amended in the late 70's to make it more difficult to commit persons and to keep them in the institutions. The preferred treatment was to be release with out patient therapy, group homes, and hope they took their medicine.
I attended a seminar in the late 70's on the new law where we were instructed to treat the committment hearings as criminal cases, to raise every possible defense, and to view the committment as imprisonment. Maybe the instructor went overboard, but most attorneys I know stopped doing that work.
Many state hospitals that formerly housed these patients closed because there was nobody left to treat.
Guess where many of the former patients now reside, starting around 1980?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.27.12 @ 9:40AM
Exactly, though they are not terminally homeless, as many are criminally active (some as a result of their illness, others in addition to it), so we do institutionalize them, and they get due process, but it is the criminal justice system that deals with them (and while the mental health treatment system isn't very good at treating the mentally ill, corrections is even less effective at correcting it).
CJW| 10.27.12 @ 11:24AM
I agree. The liberal view was that these patients, who needed help, were just funny eccentrics as represented in the Jack Nicolson movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Remember at the end of the movie, most escaped, most likely to the streets.
Nina in MA| 10.29.12 @ 11:55AM
Psychiatrists sold a bill of goods backed by hundreds of national professional and philanthropic oganizations. and several hundred people prominent in medical, academia, and politics. Enormous amounts of tax revenues were being used to support mental hospitals and the institutions were thought of as snake pits that no body wanted. One of the most influential groups in bringing about the new policies was the Joint Comission on Mental Illness and Health, an independent body set up by Congress in 1955. "The direction they took was the overselling that happens in almost every interchange between science and government". "
Extravagant claims were made for the benefits of shifting from state hospitals to community clinics". So from what I gather from this is that Reagan believed what the professionals of the time were selling....can't relly fault him if he's being told by multitude of professionals in medicine and psychiatry that the people would be better off out of the state mental hospitals.
MelvinNC| 10.26.12 @ 8:02AM
People, Democrat, Republican or whatever your political affiliation may be, need to wake the, "F" up.
I know we hear that day in, day out. But this time if we really want to take our Country back, you need to listen.
This is no longer a partisan issue that belongs solely to Democrats or Republicans. It belongs to both. Both Parties are complicit in a crime(s) against the people of the United States.
Some have alluded to the fact that there isn't a Tinkers Damn worth a difference between the Republicans or the Democrats. Each election this fact becomes more and more apparent as both parties try to cover this fact up, and as politicians do when cornered are covering this fact up very badly.
The political parties no longer represent the citizens of the United States. This is a fact that all pretty much can agree on. At least here in the American Spectator.
The political parties are too easily influenced by special interests groups. Again most can agree on this.
The political parties and or politicians are owned lock stock and barrel by large influential banking consortium or cartels. This is where cracks appear in public opinion. Cont.
TLP| 10.26.12 @ 8:26AM
So, is that a 'Yes I'll be at the Contest'?
Or, a No.
MelvinNC| 10.26.12 @ 8:35AM
Americans are not sure, because they have no reason to suspect banks on being this large and powerful.
The public at large got a taste of actually how large and powerful banks have become with the bailouts of Wall Street. But still the enormity of just how large the major banks have become is still not being grasped.
Banks today are not just the building downtown they are global, and they are extremely, extremely influential and so powerful their policies effect domestic and foreign policy.
Ask yourselves a couple of things. Years ago I forgot whom was President advocated and gave tax breaks for manufacturing companies to relocate overseas. Today General Motors is considering moving it's entire, yes entire division of Jeeps to China. Not Jeeps that will be used domestically in China, but every single Jeep manufactured will be manufactured in China. General Motors profited handsomely from the bailouts and now it wants to move it's manufacturing to China.
Why because the Chicoms pay their employees next to nothing to work. They pay their employees just one Yuan above slavery. I could go in length, but I don't want to bore you. But by General Motors moving it's Jeep Division to China does give credence to I have just posted.
Something else to ponder today. Cont.
MelvinNC| 10.26.12 @ 8:35AM
A provision that was put into Dodd, Frank to bust up the banks the way the government did to Ma Bell was thrown out of that legislation.
Cont. So I guess it can be said that global banks are the ones that call the shots for the United States.
Could it be that Iraq and Afghanistan were business decisions and not National Security decisions?
TLP| 10.26.12 @ 9:29AM
Seriously.
Yes or No?
I need to know how many chairs to get.
Joellen| 10.26.12 @ 9:13PM
Tim, after a looong day at work - still laughing at your wit - make sure you add a chair for me tomorrow.
ebonystone| 10.28.12 @ 10:55PM
Jeeps are made by Chrysler, not GM.
nathan| 10.26.12 @ 8:04AM
Does my church feed people yes. But we need to understand something and another "conservative" site got into this this discussion too. First some context.
Madison was adamant about charity and role of government in it. "Charity is no part of the legislative duty of government." His most famous quote is that he could not find the article of the Constitution that allowed Congress to engage in "benevolence" spending. So we're pretty clear here, the Founders believed in "noblise oblige" basically the parable of the Good Samaritan, "go and do likewise". But no role for government.
But for Christians if all you do is feed someone you haven't really done anything for them. NO YOU HAVEN'T. All repeat all CHRISTIAN charity must be accompanied with evangelical outreach. "Go into the world and preach the gospel" is not a suggestion. So when you offer that street person money, wrap a New Testament around it. When your church feeds people, it simply must have evangelism as part of it. Because if you don't show them the way "home" home being heaven you haven't really done much for them. Which is how charity at my church works. Do we feed people? Yes. But we throw in Gospels of John as part of it.
SUBVET| 10.26.12 @ 9:28AM
Nathan brother.....sometimes the gospel is a little overwelming. I think being their FRIEND without trying to drive the avangeacube down their throat is a good start.
Try John Dickson's book "Best Kept Secret of Christian Mission" Promoting the Gospel with More Than Our Lips.
TLP| 10.26.12 @ 9:31AM
The Contest is at Wednesday's Column - The Point Of Criticism.
It's the last entry for that day, so you might need to hit the "Previous" thingy.
Wear your shirt to the Contest.
SUBVET| 10.26.12 @ 10:06AM
Tim.......a little bad news...last week I passed a homeless person and he had no shit. He stoped me and asked for some $$$ I felt sorry for him and reached into my pocket and handed him a few bucks.
He noticed the waterboarding shit I was wearing and asked instead of the $$ would I please give him my shirt. Now being the good christian I am I felt sorry for him and said OK.
Yesterday went back to where I lost my shirt and low and behold there was Mr. HOMELESS selling reproductions of the shit I gave him.
Tim .....I think you just created more jobs than the jigaboo.
Bill8472| 10.30.12 @ 2:02PM
There are a couple of bicycle mechanics in my town who make a significant effort to accumulate broken bicycles, which they fix up at their own expense and give out free to the transients and homeless so they can ride around town instead of walking.
The derelicts then take the bikes that are given to them and sell them to people for a few bucks, which they then use to buy booze and drugs.
I once told this story on the net once before, and the overwhelming response was that the bicycle mechanics are doing a good thing and not enabling the bums amongst us to keep on drinking and drugging. Okay.
Bill8472| 10.30.12 @ 2:05PM
My wife and I were trying to clear a bunch of stuff out of our house some years ago. We had a garage sale at which we sold good stuff for very low prices, our intent being to move our stuff along, get rid of it, rather than making very much money. Some homeless-looking dirty guy with long greasy hair dressed in rags was our best customer; he pulled out a roll of cash that could choke a horse.
Jacob McCandles| 10.26.12 @ 8:40AM
Our country does not have a large homeless problem if the majority of them are homeless by choice. Even in a bad economy, in 2012 anyone that truly wants work can find it.
TLP| 10.26.12 @ 9:32AM
The Contest is at Wednesday's Column - The Point Of Criticism.
It's the last entry for that day, so you might need to hit the "Previous" thingy.
gene| 10.26.12 @ 10:23AM
Homelessness is about to become the most serious problem in America and just like the Reagan years will be all over the MSM, and there will be documentaries, movies, etc.
All this will happen right after President Romney is sworn into office.
Bill8472| 10.30.12 @ 2:14PM
The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto, the guy who writes the Best of the Web column, has been paying attention to this phenomenon of the MSM downplaying homelessness when the Dem is Pres and playing it up when the Republican is Pres for quite a long time. I'm sure he'll make a series of pithy remarks when the MSM starts up.
Anthony| 10.26.12 @ 10:26AM
I remember those wonderful days in the '80s, when the economy was booming, America was standing tall, and a great man occupied the Oval Office.
The American left however, saw another America, one where Reagan was responsible for the homeless and AIDS. Yes, the left were so indignant, and so were the whores in the media. Billions spent on social programs and AIDs research didn't deter the left or the media one bit. Reagan is killing us, they screamed.
Of course today, the left and the media whores aren't so indignant. One seldom hears about AIDs anymore, or the plight of the homeless.
I was in D.C. last month, and the number of homeless people occupying the parks was astonishing. Downtown was one huge homeless convention.
And of course, isn't it curious how the left and the media remain silent about those dead from Obozo's Fast & Furious and Benghazi? Nope, not a word of any indignation, just more lefty jingoism, OBAMA GOT OSAMA.
Oh well, Rev. Wright was right: Obozo's chickens have come home to roost. The cock is about to get his goose cooked.
gene| 10.26.12 @ 11:37AM
No. They will blame it on Bush and then Romney. And even when you prove they are lying, they will ignore you and repeat the lies. That is the MSM. Truth matters not at all.
Nina in MA| 10.29.12 @ 12:00PM
But arent ya glad Obama has told us that Sandy is a "huge" storm and declared a state of emergency...whew....them lefties got no common sense so now they'll be safe cuz he said so....!
cicero| 10.26.12 @ 10:35AM
In Michigan, during a Reppublican administration (Engler), on the pretext of saving money, they shut down the vast majority of the mental hospitals. The libs loved it too, because they had been ranting about keeping the misunderstood poor in confinement, when all they needed was their freedom, and a little compassionate understanding. As a result, the money was reallocated to the beaurocracy, taxes got shifted, not cut, and now the mentally ill are being warehoused in jails, prisons, and adult fostercare homes that turn the residents loose during the day to act like they are homeless.
As far as how much of the tax money going to Washington for these programs for the poor and homeless actually gets back to where it was intended, the number has been static for decades - 28% goes to the recipients, while 72% stays in the beaurocracy.
Show me a social malady (pathology), and I'll show you the government program that spawned it and sustains it.
Bill8472| 10.26.12 @ 10:54AM
Mr. Kengor, I read your commentaries and thought you were kind of a one-trick pony, particularly about Frank Marshall Davis.
Then I read Dupes and discovered that you are a scholarly and painstaking researcher. More people should read your books; your commentaries don't reveal the depth of your abilities.
David| 10.26.12 @ 11:01AM
We all know the homeless will be back in the news as soon as Romney takes office in Jan 2013. Kengor is correct to say our side ought to be covering it now.
Our side should also be covering how Iraq and Afghanistan are falling apart and how so many more have been killed in Afghan under the Boy than had been under Bush. No doubt both Iraq and Afghan will back in the news as soon as Romney is sworn in.
Can't wait for the stories on how much the Romneys spend on the inaugural ball. The Bam Bams spent an obscene amount, but we won't hear any comparisons.
By the time of the next prez election, school records, drug use, sexual indiscretions, amount of money spent on vacations while in the White House, and all sorts of other BS will be back in the news.
Get ready for the media to try to destroy Romney and his family's character for the next 4 years.
cicero| 10.26.12 @ 11:07AM
David - They are already looking high and low for any dirt they can find to throw at the Romney's. Their problem is that the best they have come up with so is the accusation of being a bully to an (alleged) gay kid in high school, that was denied by the kid's family. Romney is no only sqeaky clean, but admirably so. They have had to resort to making things up - see Harry Reid - to try to smear him. It will not work. I can't wait to see what they will try next, as their boat starts to sink.
Von Mises Jr| 10.26.12 @ 11:14AM
Homelessness means property-less.
Government has been the reason for both the S&L crash of the 1980's after Volker had to raise interest rates to stem the massive inflation. Twenty-three percent of S&L's went out of business costing $88B.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.....oan_Crisis
Today, The CRA of 1979 passed by Carter and the Sub-prime collapse created by Clinton and Reno has created 211K homes to fall into foreclosure while countless others remain underwater on their mortgages.
http://money.cnn.com/2012/02/1...../index.htm
The whole intent of the socialist Democrat party is to create 100% property-less subjects. We will live in Agenda21 "Smart Growth" urban prisons working for crony capitalist such as Buffet.
The Democrat Party does not only create this financial crisis through its policies, it strives to enslave your children and grandchildren.
Does no anyone else find it insulting and obnoxious that the first black President whom thrives of racism and class warfare wants to enslave the nation?
TLP| 10.26.12 @ 4:19PM
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jackwoodson| 10.26.12 @ 11:32AM
Thanks Parker - I was raised a Baptist-like Christian, and aside from the ignorance of and bigotry toward Catholics there was judgementalism and racism to boot. I married a lovely red-headed Catholic girl and after 15 years attending Mass I went through RCIA and joined the "one holy catholic (universal) and apostolic" church. A tip for the ignorant; if you attend the catholic church for three years you completely cover the entire bible. Also, in 25 years of attendance, I've never hear a negative word about Baptists, and we've been through the bible 8 times. Bill Clinton packed his Bible to church and that's all I need to say.
Jade12| 10.26.12 @ 12:23PM
I am very happy for you jackwoodson. And I am also happy to hear that they do go thru the bible because years ago they did not encourage that.
My experience is quite different because I LEFT the Catholic church for the Lutheran church so I get a lot of negative comments from Catholics. I ignore it and instead concentrate on my personal relationship with God.
TLP| 10.26.12 @ 4:19PM
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JimS | 10.26.12 @ 11:34AM
And Still: "No Revenues {especially from the wealthy nor their private reagan capitalism economic investments, free market supply side capitalism} = No Sacrifice = No Support = DeJa-Vu all over again!!"
A decade plus and counting not only to pay for both wars, deficits started as surplus was wasted with the rubber stamping start, Before 9/11, all off the books till present administration and all borrowed and still added daily, but more Importantly not a dime towards the results of these wars, added to the previous decades and war casualties of as the VA in grossly under funded especially with two more wars and veterans of!!
USN All Shore '67-'71 GMG3 Vietnam In Country '70-'71
JimS | 10.26.12 @ 11:36AM
Not 'Obama's' but the Countries, especially the Hawks and supporters of their rubber stamping war of choice costs!!
TLP| 10.26.12 @ 4:23PM
As I recall, Obama's ILLEGAL WAR in Libya was the Very Definition of a War of Choice.
Isn't that right, Dumbass?
Cause I know that Bush went to the UN and the Congress - Twice - for Authorization.
So Go Fck Yourself.
Bill8472| 10.30.12 @ 1:58PM
"Dumbass." You called me that, too.
Is that the only name you know to call, sweetcheeks?
JimS | 10.26.12 @ 11:39AM
From a dying breed called 'republican':
Still: No Revenues {nor private reagan capitalism economic investments, free market capitalism} = No Demand For = No Sacrifice = No Support = DeJa-Vu all over again!.
“Veterans were very offended” by Romney
Larry Pressler, who served 22 years in Congress as a Republican, speaks with Salon about why he's endorsing Obama
"Everybody has all these programs, ball games praising veterans, and all the presidential candidates praise them, but Obama’s the only one that’s got the budget money. And he’s the only one willing to — if we have to raise taxes in order to help veterans, we’ll have to raise them on the very wealthy, and maybe on everybody, but we’ve got to do it."
Former Sen. Larry Pressler. (R-SD) 'Nam Vet Endorses Obama
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/0.....by_romney/
After abandoning the Main Missions for sending troops into that region with the first drum beat pointed at Iraq and almost full support of those served!
USN All Shore '67-'71 GMG3 Vietnam In Country '70-'71
Stan Redmond| 10.26.12 @ 1:00PM
First off it's not the federal government's responsibility to "end homelessness" and take care of people.
Second, the homeless (along with blacks, gays, muslims, women, children, high gas prices, inflations, natural disasters) are only tools to further liberalism. When they can be used to beat up conservatives and get liberals elected then they are no longer needed and they are ignored.
TLP| 10.26.12 @ 4:23PM
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Butch| 10.26.12 @ 2:53PM
Clinton, heh. The Clinton Lie-brary was built over a big-time homeless hangout in Little Rock. When they had the grand opening with all the living former Presidents (except Ford, who was very ill) and all the Hollywood swells--the homeless were forcibly rounded up and removed to a remote location.
TLP| 10.26.12 @ 4:24PM
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Bill8472| 10.30.12 @ 1:57PM
And get right on it.
Alex Feltham | 10.27.12 @ 11:17AM
And what about Obama's "Hopeless"
See: http://john-moloney.blogspot.com/
For a laugh
C Smith | 10.27.12 @ 1:58PM
Have been concerned regarding the potential complicity of the current administration in tragic events in Benghazi. Yet, realized that there are many questions for which I had no answer. The following link addresses many questions, While not vetting the validity of the conclusions and being diametrically opposed to the humanist source, still realize that "truth is truth regless of the source" (if it is indeed truth):
http://www.theatheistconservat.....r-stevens/
"What is the... truth that the Obama administration is trying to conceal about the tragic events in Benghazi, when the US ambassador to Libya and three of his staff were murdered in an Islamic terrorist attack"?
Suzyqpie| 10.27.12 @ 5:22PM
The quality of your life will be dictated by the choices that you make. Be prepared to deal with the consequences of the choices that you make. I know, how antediluvian. The government now proclaims that govt will pay for the consequences of your choices, but it doesn't. It just proclaims to do so. And, you of consequence-denial are left in the debris field of your choices blaming some one else, demanding social justice, luck justice, what was the New Justice that I recently observed...of yea, economic justice.
Seek| 10.27.12 @ 6:58PM
The last thing we conservatives should do is imitate the Left on this issue. The fact that Lefties during the Eighties wildly exaggerated the homelessness "crisis" for political gain shouldn't give us a license to do the same thing. The homeless problem is as manageable today under Obama as it was under Reagan.
MikeC| 10.28.12 @ 12:18AM
The homeless live in Obamaland, the land of rainbows and honey. Here everyone has their own unicorn to ride to the food bank so no reporting is needed so everyone is blissfully happy! In Obamaland food and warm shelter is right there at the end of your fingers.
After November 6, 2012 the Red Meanies will come and take the food, close the shelters, and end the blissful life. Unicorns will be shot by NRA hunters to feed the rich. That is why it is so important to register the 638,000 homeless to enable them to vote at least twice for the Chosen One.