Good News: Bankrupt California buying homeless persons cell phones...

They will use them to call their crack dealers...

Via Breitbart:

In California, the unemployment rate may be above 10.2%, and the state debt may be above $16 billion, the state’s GDP may be in serious trouble and businesses may be leaving in droves due to ever-increasing tax rates, but that isn’t going to stop the gravy train for the state’s poor and dispossessed. The California Public Utilities Commission is all set to greenlight a new program that would give homeless and low-income people free cell phones – call them Obamaphones – with free service. The idea is to help them reach out to possible job opportunities and stay connected with family.

San Francisco’s head of homeless initiatives, Bevan Dufty, was overjoyed: “This is great – it is transformative for homeless and low-income people. I expect San Francisco to be in the forefront and a model city for this program. Fundamentally, to be in the mainstream of our society you have to have a phone.

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Congratulations: Your tax dollars are being used to teach homeless to break and enter empty properties

You just can't make stuff this stupid up.

Via NY Post:

It’s breaking and entering for dummies.

Picture the Homeless, a Bronx nonprofit that has received at least $240,000 in taxpayer money in the last five years, is giving a crash course on squatting — and city-owned buildings are a prime target.

Two weeks ago, board member Andres Perez held a teach-in on how to wrest “control” of vacant apartments. He called it “homesteading.”

“The best time to enter a building is in the late hours,” he advised a group of about 20, who gathered in front of the half-empty East New York housing complex Arlington Village.

“You make sure you have your proper tools. You remove the chains and padlock, and then you go in.”

He then led them through the next steps — including filling out a change-of-address form at the post office and setting up utilities. After that, “nine out of 10 times the courts will allow you to be able to have control of the property,” he said.

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Nanny State Alert: NYC Mayor Bloomberg Bans Food Donations To Homeless Shelters Because They Are Too Salty

Via NY Post:

So much for serving the homeless.

The Bloomberg administration is now taking the term “food police” to new depths, blocking food donations to all government-run facilities that serve the city’s homeless.

In conjunction with a mayoral task force and the Health Department, the Department of Homeless Services recently started enforcing new nutritional rules for food served at city shelters. Since DHS can’t assess the nutritional content of donated food, shelters have to turn away good Samaritans.

For over a decade, Glenn Richter and his wife, Lenore, have led a team of food-delivery volunteers from Ohab Zedek, the Upper West Side Orthodox congregation.

They’ve brought freshly cooked, nutrient-rich surplus foods from synagogue events to homeless facilities in the neighborhood.[...]

Diamond insists that the institutional vendors hired by the shelters serve food that meets the rules but also tastes good; it just isn’t too salty. So, says the commissioner, the homeless really don’t need any of the synagogue’s food.

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Homeless now 30% of Occupy Wall Street

Hopefully, the Generation X protesters with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement will learn how to live on the streets from the chronically indigent. I have a feeling they may need it.

(NY Magazine) — All over the country, homeless populations are increasingly finding a version of shelter at Occupy Wall Street sites. It’s a union that some demonstrators see as problematic — after all, the optics of shopping carts piled high with worldly possessions and the clearly homeless sleeping on available free tarps aren’t great for the movement’s already-under-fire public image. As New York OWS organizer Hero Vincent explained to the Times, “It’s bad for most of us who came here to build a movement. We didn’t come here to start a recovery institution.” One estimate puts the homeless contingents as high as 30 percent at some protests — that’s just measuring the chronically indigent (many protestors have temporarily revoked leases and quit jobs).

Ironic: OWS Protesters Complain About Homeless Not Pulling Their Weight

Oh, the a$$ exploding irony...

Money quote from OWS protester:

"If you're going to come here and get our food, bedding and clothing, have books and medical supplies for no charge, they need to give back," Digioia said. "There's a lot of takers here and they feel entitled."

The Tea Party never had this problem. They couldn't occupy anyplace long-term because they had jobs to do, families to support and taxes to pay.

(NY Daily News)- Zuccotti Park has become a haven for the homeless.

Enticed by the allure of free food and a community of open-minded people, increasing numbers are leaving New York's shelters to join the Occupy Wall Street protesters.

"I think this is a better situation to be involved with," said Matthew Maloney, 49, who was released from prison on Sept. 30 after serving time for a probation violation.

Maloney moved into a shelter in Staten Island and learned about Occupy Wall Street while watching television. Then the ex-con headed to Zuccotti Park on Oct. 13 and never left.

"I am around a good cause and around positive people, rather than in that other environment," he said.

Maloney has drifted in and out of the state prison system for more than three decades for a variety of crimes, including robbery and possession of stolen property...

"We have compassion toward everyone. However, we have certain rules and guidelines," said Lauren Digioia, 26, a member of the sanitation committee.

“Welcome to Obamaville" Posted In Front of Homeless Camp

The "Hopey-Changey" thing isn't working out for someone in Colorado. They have posted this message on a sign at a homeless camp.

“Welcome to Obamaville, Colorado’s fastest growing community.”

KJCT has the story.

Hat tip Gateway Pundit.

Man Gropes Woman to get Back in Jail

The victim beat the Homeless man, Ricardo Ramirez, over the head with a phone and drove him off. Police have apprehended the suspect. Hopefully, he won't be released for a long time. Video and text from Fox4KC:

Man Gropes Woman to get Back in Jail (video)

Jo Cronin with State Farm said she saw Ricardo Ramirez walk into the office at 6011 Nieman Road and started to hug one of her co-workers.

"I heard her say, 'Get away,' and I knew it was not normal," Cronin said.

Ramirez had put his hand down the woman's blouse and was groping her when the woman, screaming and crying, hit Ramirez with her desk phone.

"He just kept coming at her and she got her weight on the floor," Cronin said. "She is on the phone, screaming and crying, and she just hits him."

After she hit him, he ran off and police found him shortly afterwards nearby.

As he was being arrested, he told police he wanted to go back into jail and he was tired of being a free man. He is charged with aggravated sexual assault.

Homeless in DC have Black Berry phones

This picture is being circulated around the internet. Michelle Obama is serving food to homeless people at a government funded soup kitchen and one of the patrons snaps a picture of her with a $500 Black Berry cell phone. Unbelievable.

Cost of a bowl of soup at homeless shelter $0.00 dollars
Having Michelle Obama Serve you your soup $0.00 dollars
Snapping a picture of a homeless person who is receiving government funded meal while taking a picture of the first lady using his $500 Black Berry cell phone $$$$ Priceless

If I were homeless and couldn't afford food, my over priced cell phone would be the first thing to go.

Clueless liberals at work

I believe liberals are mostly well meaning people who think they are doing good things. The problem is they want the government to control everything. They think the controls will bring about change for the good, but often the opposite is true. New regulations being imposed in New York may cause many homeless shelters to close.

Religious Shelters Say Rules Squeeze Them Out

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By LESLIE KAUFMAN
Published: December 24, 2008

As temperatures outside were dropping from icy to arctic early Monday evening, volunteers inside the Friends Meeting House off East 15th Street prepared their gym for homeless guests, following a routine that has taken place nightly for more than 25 years.
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A warm end to a cold day for one homeless person inside the shelter at the Friends Meeting House in Manhattan.

They arranged green cots in neat lines on the polished wood floor, placed cold cuts and leftover lasagna on pink cloth-covered tables, and set out 14 chairs — 12 for the homeless, 2 for volunteers who share the communal meal, then sleep in the next room.

But these lovingly preserved rituals may soon come to an end because of a pending change in city policy in which shelters that contract with the Department of Homeless Services to provide beds would be required to provide hot dinners and transportation, things that the Friends shelter and many of the others do not have the staff to handle. Full story here.