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This sounds like the "Wounded Warrior Project". Greedy bastards.
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/03/10...ntroversy.html Ugh. Scammers everywhere.
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Anatomy of a Swindle: How a Rogue Non-profit Captured the Emerald City
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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.
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October 5th, 2018, 01:01 PM | #236 |
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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.
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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. Last edited by Arturo2nd; October 6th, 2018 at 02:02 AM.. Reason: correction |
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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. |
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The Go Fund Me for the helpful homeless guy was all a fraud - ?
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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.
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