I hate the homeless - Page 24

**beemerider500** · September 6th, 2018, 12:57 AM

This sounds like the "Wounded Warrior Project". Greedy bastards.

**bowlinggreen** · September 6th, 2018, 07:35 AM

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Originally Posted by beemerider500

This sounds like the "Wounded Warrior Project". Greedy bastards.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/03/10...ntroversy.html

Ugh.

Scammers everywhere.

**treehugger** · September 29th, 2018, 03:55 AM

Anatomy of a Swindle: How a Rogue Non-profit Captured the Emerald City

Posted on September 13, 2016 by DBP

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https://roominate.com/blog/2016/anatomy-of-a-swindle/][/url]
September 13, 2016
The Set-up

For four years I’ve been investigating a publicly supported non-profit homeless group in Seattle called SHARE. SHARE runs 14 indoor shelters around Seattle, for which it annually gets several hundred thousand dollars from Seattle’s Human Services Department. Most of these shelters are owned by churches. Besides the shelters, SHARE operates a network of homeless camps known as “tent cities.” The group says that “up to 450 people each night find safety, shelter, dignity, and respect” its “self-managed” shelters and camps, but it has never provided any documentation for that figure. The group resists attempts to monitor its numbers or performance as an “invasion of privacy.” SHARE views homelessness as a valid lifestyle – a lifestyle of choice – and while it does get a number of people off the street temporarily, it makes no claim of getting them into jobs, permanent housing, or addiction treatment programs. “We are not a social service organization,” they declare. “We are a self-help group.”

https://roominate.com/blog/2016/anatomy-of-a-swindle/

**Arturo2nd** · September 30th, 2018, 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by treehugger

Anatomy of a Swindle: How a Rogue Non-profit Captured the Emerald City

Posted on September 13, 2016 by DBP

https://roominate.com/blog/2016/anatomy-of-a-swindle/

OK. This story is 2 years old. Any updates, have they punished these miscreants?

I have a very special dislike for those who divert resources intended for charitable purposes. Stories like these arouse my inner sadistic barbarian.

**Arturo2nd** · October 2nd, 2018, 01:33 AM

Here in the Bay Area we have rents skyrocketing and increasing numbers of the working poor priced out of the market. Cities are decades behind in building affordable housing. The biggest obstacle is that groups of homeowners in any area where such housing is proposed get lawyers, sue, petition to get ballot measures blocking the development, etc. It has gotten so bad that the legislature is looking into legislation fast tracking the building of housing and setting up legal blocks for the NIMBY groups.

We need to get decent people off the streets and into housing so that we can more easily hunt down and kill the criminals, i.e., those who poop on the sidewalk rather than use the nearby public restroom or Port-O-Potty.

**beemerider500** · October 5th, 2018, 01:01 PM

I seem to remember that Jerry Brown (in between his Governor terms) went into an old Oakland warehouse district and bought up a bunch of properties. He had them partitioned and converted into upscale lofts and studio type apartments. OR, maybe Diane Feinstein could do something to help her less fortunate constituents.

Democratic government - Of the people, By the people, FOR the people, F*ck the people.

**Arturo2nd** · October 6th, 2018, 01:59 AM

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Originally Posted by beemerider500

I seem to remember that Jerry Brown (in between his Governor terms) went into an old Oakland warehouse district and bought up a bunch of properties. He had them partitioned and converted into upscale lofts and studio type apartments. OR, maybe Diane Feinstein could do something to help her less fortunate constituents.

Democratic government - Of the people, By the people, FOR the people, F*ck the people.

I was born in Oakland in 1949 and have lived my entire life in the Bay Area. It was obvious many years ago that the gentrification now well underway in Oakland was inevitable. The central location, stock of quality built homes and robust transportation infrastructure is too valuable to be left in the hands of impoverished minorities. There is plenty of aging and cheaply constructed housing in the suburbs for the displaced to relocate into. Naturally, savvy investors have and will prosper from the transition.

I was greatly dismayed to discover how the multi-millionaire heiress Dianne Feinstein and her billionaire husband leveraged her position in the senate to further enrich themselves.

I shouldn't have been surprised. I was at a friend of mine's house roughly 50 years ago when his father John D remarked, "Democrats or Republicans, they are all a bunch of crooks, but at least the Democrats throw you a bone once in awhile." I also remember John calling the voters "a bunch of sheep."

I have been delving into the career of Ronald Reagan and uncovered extensive mob connections and other forms of corruption. Jerry Brown succeeded Reagan as governor. Jerry's father, Pat Brown was Regan's immediate predecessor. Both Browns had financial connections with Reagan's backers. The money boys have their hooks into both parties. It is disconcerting to find so many links between mobsters, corporations, and politicians. Maybe ignorance really is bliss.

We had a Democratic kingpin in the 1960s named Jesse "Big Daddy" Unruh. One of his observations was "Money is the mother's milk of politics." If you have followed California politics at all, you will note politicians of both parties being indicted for corruption. As far as I can tell, that is a tradition of California politics dating back to the state's earliest days.

We are not alone, of course. I am aware of unsavory doings in Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington, D.C. Perhaps, other VEF members can add to the list.

**loadmaster011** · October 6th, 2018, 10:15 AM

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You're on the money Brian. I too was born the same year and have lived in the Boston area all my life. Many of the neighborhoods on the city were blue collar, working class like the North End, West End, East Boston and Charlestown. In the 60's the tide turned with federally funded "Urban renewal" and the complete flattening of the West End. The momentum built over the decades wit the exodus of many to the suburbs or New Hampshire.

What was gentrification has now become a mega-real estate market, especially with the development of the old commercial fishing and shipping district into the new, "Seaport District" where ultra-priced apartments are now routinely purchased by foreign investors and those involved in criminal enterprise to launder their money. One after another the local politicians have been caught and gone to jail but the speed at which this continues hasn't slowed.

With average apartments going for several millions of dollars and once purchased, remain unoccupied, there is no where for the lower socio-economic class to go. This isn't to excuse someone from pissing in the street, but as a society we are heading in the wrong direction with those in politics selling the public snake oil.

**Rogerbh** · November 15th, 2018, 02:29 PM

The Go Fund Me for the helpful homeless guy was all a fraud - ?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peop...cid=spartanntp

**bowlinggreen** · November 15th, 2018, 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Rogerbh

The Go Fund Me for the helpful homeless guy was all a fraud - ?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peop...cid=spartanntp

I just saw that. Must have been a falling out among thieves.

They all deserve to go to prison in this case. probably won't be so much of a hardship for the homeless guy though.

September 6th, 2018, 12:57 AM	#231
beemerider500 Vintage Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Michigan Posts: 1,123 Thanks: 35,856 Thanked 9,424 Times in 1,040 Posts	This sounds like the "Wounded Warrior Project". Greedy bastards.

October 2nd, 2018, 01:33 AM	#235
Arturo2nd Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Oakland, California, United States. I have a beautful view of the BART tracks and I-980 Posts: 8,955 Thanks: 103,061 Thanked 151,624 Times in 8,946 Posts	Here in the Bay Area we have rents skyrocketing and increasing numbers of the working poor priced out of the market. Cities are decades behind in building affordable housing. The biggest obstacle is that groups of homeowners in any area where such housing is proposed get lawyers, sue, petition to get ballot measures blocking the development, etc. It has gotten so bad that the legislature is looking into legislation fast tracking the building of housing and setting up legal blocks for the NIMBY groups. We need to get decent people off the streets and into housing so that we can more easily hunt down and kill the criminals, i.e., those who poop on the sidewalk rather than use the nearby public restroom or Port-O-Potty.

October 5th, 2018, 01:01 PM	#236
beemerider500 Vintage Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Michigan Posts: 1,123 Thanks: 35,856 Thanked 9,424 Times in 1,040 Posts	I seem to remember that Jerry Brown (in between his Governor terms) went into an old Oakland warehouse district and bought up a bunch of properties. He had them partitioned and converted into upscale lofts and studio type apartments. OR, maybe Diane Feinstein could do something to help her less fortunate constituents. Democratic government - Of the people, By the people, FOR the people, F*ck the people.

October 6th, 2018, 10:15 AM	#238
loadmaster011 Vintage Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 12,868 Thanks: 170,737 Thanked 159,587 Times in 12,802 Posts	^ You're on the money Brian. I too was born the same year and have lived in the Boston area all my life. Many of the neighborhoods on the city were blue collar, working class like the North End, West End, East Boston and Charlestown. In the 60's the tide turned with federally funded "Urban renewal" and the complete flattening of the West End. The momentum built over the decades wit the exodus of many to the suburbs or New Hampshire. What was gentrification has now become a mega-real estate market, especially with the development of the old commercial fishing and shipping district into the new, "Seaport District" where ultra-priced apartments are now routinely purchased by foreign investors and those involved in criminal enterprise to launder their money. One after another the local politicians have been caught and gone to jail but the speed at which this continues hasn't slowed. With average apartments going for several millions of dollars and once purchased, remain unoccupied, there is no where for the lower socio-economic class to go. This isn't to excuse someone from pissing in the street, but as a society we are heading in the wrong direction with those in politics selling the public snake oil.

November 15th, 2018, 02:29 PM	#239
Rogerbh Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Land of the free within reasonable limitations Posts: 10,935 Thanks: 50,612 Thanked 91,387 Times in 10,784 Posts	The Go Fund Me for the helpful homeless guy was all a fraud - ? https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peop...cid=spartanntp