Got my mind on my money, and my money on my mind.
Do you know how rich you have to be to just be poor in New York City?!? I bust my ass to keep the lights on in Long Island and the prosecco pouring in Prospect Heights. So for those folks in New York City on the bottom rung shit just got a little more fucked the fuck up.
The BLOOMBERG administration has decided to stop their policy of extending temporary shelter to homeless families because they claim that people are abusing the system. WTF!?! I have to LOL at the idea of poor people abusing the shelter system. Picture the hen kicking the coyotes’ ass. The idea that people who would put themselves through that process night in and night out are somehow taking advantage of the system is incredulous and ass backwards.
You have to be careful with the BLOOMBERG administration like you have to keep your eyes on the liberal elite at all times. They always take far more than they give. This is the same administration that called the working class mass transit operators “thugs” when they demanded their rights and fair wages. Peep the criminalization of the homeless…
New NYC policy for homeless who seek shelter after 5 p.m.
The idea that people would come to the shelter system on a daily basis is what requires examination and resolution. Not a condemnation of these people for being duplicitous. It’s the administration that is trying to fool the public. City officials want to play a numbers game and start denying people their housing rights because they may have a relative or a FRIEND with an apartment. Why should a homeless family burden their relatives or their FRIENDS in order for the city to congratulate itself and say that it has somehow decreased the number of homeless people in its system!?!? Even BEN FRANKLIN, the lovable supremacist, stated “fish and visitors smell in three days.”
That’s that bullshit Mayor BLOOMBERG!
MICHEAL BLOOMBERG was talking about running for president and I was talking about running Black people to his campaign, but not if he is going to be throwing poor people and their plastic bags of shit onto the rain splashed, pidgeon pooped sidewalks. I was old enough to remember my own mother’s travails on public assistance and I know that no one wants their kids to live that type of sheltered lifestyle.
While everyone was punchdrunk from the out of control condominum development that has bolstered New York City realty no one bothered to think about the people sleeping in the cardboard boxes at the foundations of the skyscrapers. You will never acheive the dream of a great society if you continue to ignore those of us on the bottom.
Sad that NYC’s war on the homeless and working poor is never ending and seems to be yet another quagmire.
Tony,
Quagmire is just that if you are poor in NYC. It’s ridiculous to think that people should have to look for shelter from acquaintances. WTF?! No one chooses to be homeless.
They will indeed achieve a great society by simply eliminating us from the picture; thereby rendering the landscape quite picture perfect.
New York City is no place for the middle class, let alone the poor.
Shelters were already fucked up in the first place. I know here, if you’re not a mother or a junkie then you might I recommend stealing a sleeping bag and a knife and backing cats away from that comfy spot under the bridge.
Bloomberg fails to realize that even if you have a relative or friend with an apartment, most leases have eviction clauses for allowing people to live with you that are not on the lease. Which means the relative risks being homeless for helping a homeless loved one. Catch-22
DP…like you, I was riding for Bloomie, until recently. With all his pay the poor to go to school, to go to the dentist, etc. he started to take on the air of the filthy rich liberals that think they are so helpful when leave their penthouses to ‘slum’ for day and help the home less. (now don’t get it screwed, I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT ALL LIBERALS,just the swanky ones that have no clue!).
Now this ish seems to be directly contradictary that approach, as stupid as I think it was.
Wifey was in an unfortunate situation with my step sons donor, and was forced to bail and ended up in the system. From what she tells me, yeah there are large number of people that exploit the system. But the system is so exploitable its a joke. Do you now that the city would rather pay a daily stipend of 200+ dollars A DAY for a family to stay at a ‘HOTEL’, rather than fork over $600 – $700 A MONTH to provide an apartment. WTF?!! and thats just one of the problems with system, not to mention the predators that work there feasting off the situation women are forced into.
Maybe if the city worked on fixing the problems in the management of the system, rather than blaming the unfortunate, things would at sometime begin to improve.