Comments on: No Place Like No Home

By: Tricia Spiegel

Tricia Spiegel — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:05:54 +0000

Thank you for this wise comment tarma

By: tarma

tarma — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:34:47 +0000

Thank you for highlighting the plight of so many children.

I worked with homeless families for a stretch back in the 80’s. They were “sheltered” in welfare hotels and congregate facilities, i.e., warehouse style with three feet between the beds assigned to each family.

The cost of these temporary solutions is obscene and astromomical, both in terms of money and the toll on the families.

Some personal highlights:
Children sleeping in cardboard boxes, sheltered in hotel rooms for which the city was paying thousands of dollars per week (for each room)…
Walking through the hallways of a welfare hotel, and being stopped by a small girl of about 7 or 8, who said, “Lady, be careful, there are rapers in this building”…
Walking out onto the streets of the South Bronx and being struck by the relative QUIET of the mean streets in contrast with the constant noise level of the congregate shelter where men, women and children ate and slept and lived in quarters with less personal space that we require for animals…
Children who were marginzalized by teachers who refused to even attempt to teach them or provide school materials – like books – because they were only in the school temporarily…

While some of these families were homeless due to poor choices made by the adults, even more were homeless due to problems including displacement related to increased rents or fire, job loss, illness or domestic violence. Regardless, the children, who suffered greatly, were always the innocents.

There but for the grace of God, go I…

By: Ferd Berfle

Ferd Berfle — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:19:32 +0000

Test

By: Marvin

Marvin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:04:48 +0000

The little things are often “big” things when you stop and think about it, Pat. Thanks for this reflective piece. . .

By: mary

mary — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:40:25 +0000

Don’t forget Obambi’s mother was working for the Ford Foundation and micromanagement economics theories were her forte. They never used ’stamps’ to survive.

Obama was a SPOILED BRAT whose grandmother (under the bus with uncle Jeremiah and a gang of other ex-loved ones) was the first female Vice Presidnet of a Bank. He used affirmative action to get in Harvard, Columbia as his marks were in the low C’s. That’s why he is refusing to unseal his thesis, medicals and all personal records.
He’d rather spend $800,000 fighting a law suit…..
The fraud of the Century!
(And the Warmonger in the fine tradition of Bush butcherism. His Vietnam is now called Af-Pak)

By: mary

mary — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:35:15 +0000

Very good article here! We must all count our blessings….
I just read over Hillary’s paper on Children’s rights which she wrote in her 20s. She really dedicated her life to this issue. Her mother’s mother was abandoned apparently and had very difficult time growing up……

By: Katmoon

Katmoon — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:25:52 +0000

Residential area of Loring AFB-Maine

By: Ferd Berfle

Ferd Berfle — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:07:37 +0000

I just noticed, oowawa, the similarity in our concerns. Yours is an excellent comment, as always.

By: Katmoon

Katmoon — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:15:32 +0000

Teakwood, you go right ahead.

By: Seattle Moss

Seattle Moss — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:09:58 +0000

Come over and see me at FB and see exactly how this revolution is taking shape

Clint Cox

By: BuzzisbackLatte

BuzzisbackLatte — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:48:59 +0000

Ah, that is good news!

By: Seattle Moss

Seattle Moss — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:24:31 +0000

You’re always so fun Buzz

Except that Seattle is now turning to the right along with the rest of the country..
Our Nanny mayor dismissed
The proposed insane bag tax defeated
Christian Susan Hutchinson winning first round for Ron Sims job.

The Marxists are on the run

Two years from now the word Liberal will be a dirty word and those that cling to this will be considered Public Enemy Number1

By: Martha Washington Collier

Martha Washington Collier — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:50:29 +0000

It was the stepfather who enrolled him in the Indonesian school (remember the copy of the registration form with Islam listed as his religion?). Soetoro worked as an oil company executive. Don’t tell me he couldn’t go to the schools….blah, blah, blah. The whole speech is geared to speaking to the underdog…Comrade Obama. They’re not all cutting school or looking out the window.

By: Ferd Berfle

Ferd Berfle — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:20:10 +0000

Now I’m the brown shoes in a Tuxedo world. Can someone such as an administrator please extricate me from the comment purgatory?

By: Ferd Berfle

Ferd Berfle — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:15:43 +0000

Our children deserve no less than the truth. He doesn’t speak it.

You’re quite right about that. I still cannot fathom the adoration he gets from his fawning minions. He has failed to make their mortgage or car payments as they believed he would so why haven’t they turned on him en-masse? Oh, because it’s all Hillary’s fault. never mind, Teak.