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Anti Federalist
08-15-2010, 12:18 AM
In Atlanta, Georgia.

They (local government) planned on 10,000 people showing up.

30,000 showed up in a confused, handout crazed mob.

This was called "success".

YouTube - 30,000 Fight For Housing Vouchers in the Sweltering Heat (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CODBj9eEfOo&feature=player_embedded)

HOLLYWOOD
08-15-2010, 12:30 AM
30,000 for 150 Section 8 homes?

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=256769&highlight=housing

http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/housing-crisis-reaches-full-589653.html
A check of the 16 metro Atlanta housing authorities that administer Section 8 programs found the overwhelming majority had closed their waiting lists. In one instance, the waiting list at Marietta Housing Authority has been closed since September 2008.

Meanwhile the US government has spent a Trillion dollars on War in the past year. Plus $71 Billion rebuilding PipeLinestan aka Afghanistan.

Brooklyn Red Leg
08-15-2010, 12:33 AM
And there are thousands of FEMA trailers sitting empty and thousands of empty homes that have been foreclosed upon as well as thousands of closed shopping centers/strip malls. Give government a problem to solve that SHOULD be a no-brainer and they will consistently fuck it up.

Kregisen
08-15-2010, 04:37 AM
Just a glimmer of what the future will look like.

nobody's_hero
08-15-2010, 04:39 AM
Don't worry, we in Georgia have two washed-up politicians running for governor this year. Former gov. Roy Barnes and Former Congressman Nathan Deal will end up fighting over who can put the most bandaids on this situation by doling out welfare, rather than focusing on the root of the problem, which is: too much government.

Southron
08-15-2010, 04:49 AM
This is why I'm not optimistic things will turn out well in a collapse.

I think the South is a racial timebomb if things crash, at least in the urban areas.

awake
08-15-2010, 05:12 AM
Modern day bread line.

Danke
08-15-2010, 05:18 AM
http://www.moriahfund.org/images/section_pics/housing_is_right.jpg

http://www.lucplanning.com/img/Fair%20Housing.jpg

speciallyblend
08-15-2010, 06:00 AM
we are all screwed ,once you become homeless you cannot even have a tent because of gov regulations!! damned either way!! ftg

johngr
08-15-2010, 07:01 AM
When the US dollar crashes to where the food stamps and welfare payments don't come or are hyperinflated into nothingness, you'd better be prepared: 1000 ammunition rounds per percent non-asian minority in your city. If you want to flee to a majority white area, be sure that you're at least two tanks of petrol away from any major metropolitan area.

MelissaWV
08-15-2010, 07:22 AM
There were already several threads on this...

I am still perplexed as to how tens of thousands of people standing in line and the security not knowing where to put the little rope is considered "chaotic." I don't really see anyone else getting "crushed" but the reporter is panicked. People WERE getting hurt... by the heat. There were folks who were treated for dehydration. The people, in general, weren't harming one another. The paperwork was distributed in a few hours and the crowds dispersed after that.

I didn't see the "fighting" for housing vouchers. Did you see a fight?

Was there a reason for such a huge crowd? Was there some misunderstanding as to what was being offered (application versus actual vouchers; the latter would be in limited supply)? Was it accidental?

Now, you have people keeping pretty calm, dealing with the heat (see the umbrellas and water?), and waiting around for the Government to save them. That last part is what's wrong with the scene, not any sort of "chaos" or "fighting."

Saying this is some kind of riot is an interesting thing. It will make some of the bleeding-heart types say that there needs to be more housing, and how could people treat others this way. Racists might see this as proof of certain people behaving like the animals they are (I've actually already heard that comment repeatedly in reference to this event). Anti-Government folks might see it as a shame, the harbringer of worse things to come after the collapse. Pro-Government folks will see the nice clean (and cool, I might add; they must have been in the air conditioning inside) people giving the interview as to how it was a success... as almost angelic, helping those poor sweaty unfortunates get into a nice civilized home.

I've seen bigger riots at Disney, and more violent ones when there's someone with more than 10 items in an Express Lane.

Brooklyn Red Leg
08-15-2010, 12:41 PM
http://www.moriahfund.org/images/section_pics/housing_is_right.jpg

http://www.lucplanning.com/img/Fair%20Housing.jpg

The one thing that burns the FUCK out of me about most of these 'Housing is a Right' douchebags are the fact that usually NONE of them recognize the fact that Private Property is a right and that the GOVERNMENT is 99% the reason so many of us have to rent. If the fucking government were forced to liquidate its excess property holdings and allow Homesteading again, shit like this would disappear.

Just as an aside, I was driving up US 19 to visit a friend earlier and I passed quite a few commercial properties that were closed (a McDonalds, gas station, little strip mall) and it just reinforced the goddamned stupidity of it all that we have a growing population who are homeless when there is more than enough space to go around.


we are all screwed ,once you become homeless you cannot even have a tent because of gov regulations!! damned either way!! ftg

Yep. I've had to be homeless this year and I can tell you it fucking SUCKS. Living out of my car was awful (might have to go back to that soon if I can't find a fucking replacement job after getting shit-canned by the telemarketing placed I worked). Once you get behind that 8-ball, you're pretty well and truly fucked. The worst part is the fact that the field I'm trying to break into (Private Security), many places that WOULD hire me WON'T because they can easily hire a couple of off-duty Police/Sheriffs. Its great, if its not the fucking shitstain blue shmucks harassing you for every kind of imaginable thing, they also get to soak up the extra money that SHOULD go to Private First Responders if we didn't have asshole local government cops. Naturally, you cannot try and reason with a potential employer that a Cop and Private Security are NOT even remotely the same and that we do entirely DIFFERENT jobs with very little overlap.