More Homeless Headed Your Way
The line now forms before 4 p.m. to get into REST Shelter — a respite from Chicago’s streets for those with no place else to go.
Once a 24-hour homeless shelter for more than 100 people, the facility in a dingy old church has had to lay off workers and close during the day as legislators chopped the Department of Human Services budget by hundreds of millions of dollars, including $4.7 million for homeless services.
The result is that many of the state’s poorest and most vulnerable — REST residents include recovering addicts and the disabled — are left with fewer options and more uncertainty even as census data shows Illinois grappling with its highest poverty rate in nearly two decades as the jobless rate rises.
Meanwhile, we're sure the lobbies of all police stations are going to be crowded starting with the first cold snap.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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Google most liberal city in nation and it will lead you to studies that show at the top of the list is Detroit. In second place is Gary Indiana. Nuff said.
Anytime those disease bag come in 025 we always throw the scum where they belong...on the street
Bring back the draft!!
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Silly SCC, Democrats can't be the cause of, and solution, to all of life's problems. It's alcohol - just ask Homer Simpson.
The Dems only exacerbate the problems, then promise to solve them. Over and over. Again and again.
But,but, but how could this be?
We're not only the city of big shoulders we're the city of big hearts? The sanctuary city.
are they going to make the districts feed these bums too?
You ain't seen nothing yet.....Wages are falling and poverty is rising.
And the city with the so-called "big heart" just keeps pouring it on...higher taxes...higher fees...higher parking...
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Foreclosure filings in Illinois jump in August
Banks have started foreclosing on homes again after delays due to last year's robo-signing scandal.
Foreclosure filings in Illinois jumped 18 percent from July to August, and that means the housing market still has a long slog ahead.
The latest numbers from RealtyTrac show banks are starting to move ahead with foreclosures again. They had slowed down a lot last year and earlier this year to sort out problems related to sloppy paperwork and robo-signing of documents.
http://www.wbez.org/story/foreclosure-filings-illinois-jump-august-92044
not to mention...
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Illinois’ budget simply cannot take a major hit on Medicaid without kicking a whole lot of people off the system. Period. End of story. Why? Read on…
Illinois had more poor people last year than it has had in nearly two decades, according to data released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau that also showed the number of impoverished nationally at a new high.
More than 1.82 million people lived in poverty in Illinois last year, up from 1.69 million. That was the biggest number of poor since 1992 when there were 1.86 million people who were impoverished.
The poverty rate last year rose to 14.1 percent from 13.2 percent in 2009, data showed. […]
The report also revealed the percent of uninsured in Illinois rose to 14.8 from 14.2 in 2009. There were 1.91 million people uninsured in the state last year, up from 1.81 million. Nationally, 49.9 million Americans had no health insurance, or 16.3 percent, up from 16.1 percent, or 49 million.
Median household income in Illinois fell 5.5 percent to $50,761 last year from $53,743, the report showed. Nationally, it dropped 2.3 percent to $49,445, from $50,599. Since 2007, median household income has declined 6.4 percent. [Emphasis added.]
( note that date comparison -- the census report from 2010 and this is almost 2012. Do you think the numbers got any better over that time?)
Oy.
* More misery…
“In the fiscal year that ended June 30, we serviced 5.1 million individual visits to our food pantries,” said Bob Dolgan, spokesman for the Greater Chicago Food Depository, which operates 650 pantries, soup kitchens and shelters in the city and Cook County. “You go back just three years ago, it was 3.2 million visits.”
Cuts to even relatively small government assistance programs are making it difficult to serve the growing numbers of poor, said Shurna, citing an 87 percent cut to an $11 million state program designed to prevent homelessness.
“So many people are just one catastrophe from becoming homeless, suddenly unable to make a house or rent payment because of unforeseen medical bills or some other emergency,” he said. “Now, because of this cut, 10,371 such people will not be helped
Nearby state poverty rates…
Indiana 16.3 percent, Ohio 15.3 percent, Kentucky 17.7 percent, Michigan 15.5 percent, Missouri 14.8 percent, Wisconsin 9.9 percent.
* A very depressing national poverty rate graph…(at link below)
more >> http://capitolfax.com/2011/09/14/medicai...
You honor me.... I coined that phrase.
and the corporate extortion continues. The circle jerk of jobs for tax breaks and tax breaks for campaign contribution isn't that how it goes?
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JMC Steel wants $1 million more from TIF kitty
Ohio-based company already has secured $2 million in incentives from state and more than $500,000 from Chicago to move its headquarters to the Loop
September 14, 2011|By Alejandra Cancino, Tribune reporter
An Ohio-based manufacturing company wants a total of about $3.7 million in local and state incentives to move its national headquarters to Chicago.
JMC Steel Group, which has already secured $2 million from Illinois, is requesting an additional $1.12 million from the city. It came one step closer to its goal on Tuesday, when the city's Community Development Commission approved that amount in tax increment financing funds to subsidize renovations of the company's new offices.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-09-14/business/ct-biz-0914-steel-company-20110914_1_tif-funds-tif-agreement-new-headquarters
One has to wonder how the democrats can be the solution and the cause of all our problems.
don't you hate it when their plans come together?
I think the only humane thing to do is to pick up the homeless who are freezing this winter and send them South to some warm weather state where they will have a better chance of survival. I believe New Orleans lost a good portion of their population after Katrina... maybe they'd like some people back?
This may be true, but please oh please whatever we do, let's make sure that Chicago stays a Sanctuary City, so whatever resources we do have left can all go to the "New Americans".
Why not just put all these poor folks in the locker rooms at the stations. The "quiet rooms" are useful. Beat cars that are down for the night could be a place to put some flea infested bodies. Don't clutter up the lobby areas of our stations. If the unfortunate get hungry they can eat the mold growing in the stations. Just solved the mold problem.
He's just like Daley--just more verbal and in everyone's face about it.
I do not have a problem with the government slashing funds for these, What I have a problem with is WHERE ARE THE REVERENDS AND THEIR CHURCHES. They should be doing all this, that's how it was in the past, before government got involved. How about Operation Push and Rev Meeks church taking care of the homeless. They have shaken down the system for years for money, let them put it to some use!!!
Why not let a few bums sleep in Daley's luxory Lincoln when it's not being used to run errands for the paricite Daley family?
Not to worry, just send these lousy psychopaths to the St. Paul of the Cross Church Sunday evening soup kitchen and give these Park Ridge softballs a glimpse of reality. The leftists former pastor actually wanted to start a seven-day-a-week homeless shelter there. Incredibly, the parish was actually split nearly fifty-fifty as to the merits of this insanity. Thank #640's Tony Riccio for exposing the plot and mustering the resistance. He's a hero, even if I'm still languishing in patrol waiting for my phone call to come through...
Does this mean I get to charge the city $50 for exposing me to an unhealthy workplace?
Fuck you, Rahm. You are truly a piece of shit of the highest order.
The homeless.did not wake upnone day and say "Gee I wish I was homeless.
Its simple. Have the bums clean the mold and pay them with sandwhichs from the jail we've always got extras.
The roll call room in 19 has a strange, poo colored liquid that occasionally oozes down from the ceiling on the north wall. If I collect it in mason jars and sell it on the internet we could use the money to put all the homeless people and their pet fleas on a mega bus to detroit.
send them all south and have them work like migrant workers. might as well have them work for their keep and pay instead of illegals and forever bankrolling these people who continue to bleed the system.. anyone ever do a study on how many of them actually pull themselves up by the bootstraps and get out of the hole they dug themselves into? esp. the addicts.
just axin
Can't we use Maggie Daley's chauffers, gun-tottin valets (i.e. well-paid police officers) to pick these poor souls off the street in her city-gassed-up, 2011 Ford sedan and place them in Daley's warm foyer for a little R&R?
Foreclosure filings in Illinois jump in August
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1 in 43 homes in Illinois are in foreclosure. Wow.
Could this goof Mcnutty be crazy enough to be with Lt. M.B. when he is still married? This was our best choice to lead one of the biggest police depts in the country? WTF?
It's time the leftists quit fucking up society with their entitlement voting block.
Black revs are moaning about profiling, okay, only allow the same percentage of every racial group to get da link.
This is so wrong I'm thinking God may have to make a personal appearance on this one. Seriously, I can't even make a joke about it.
Remember one thing. The scum of which you speak are those that became enriched with money and power while the mentally ill, physically ill, poverty stricken and their families continue to suffer from the loss of proper benefits and care. The real scum hope that we will become confused and forget who robbed the system and pushed sick, helpless people out on the streets. We may. He won't.
I'd do him.
Anonymous said...
Not to worry, just send these lousy psychopaths to the St. Paul of the Cross Church Sunday evening soup kitchen and give these Park Ridge softballs a glimpse of reality. The leftists former pastor actually wanted to start a seven-day-a-week homeless shelter there. Incredibly, the parish was actually split nearly fifty-fifty as to the merits of this insanity. Thank #640's Tony Riccio for exposing the plot and mustering the resistance. He's a hero, even if I'm still languishing in patrol waiting for my phone call to come through...
9/18/2011 09:52:00 AM
I know this is from several days ago, but I find myself sitting here wondering just what is "leftist" about a priest trying to do charity work, without government involvement. Isn't that what they are supposed to be doing?
As foreclosures are bulldozed -- housing for boats, not people.
In $16 million mid-Depression project, city to build 4 boat houses on Chicago River
2:00 p.m. CDT, September 19, 2011
"Mayor Rahm Emanuel today announced a plan to improve access to the Chicago River by building four boathouses on stretches of the waterway that already draw scores of kayakers and other paddlers."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-city-to-build-boat-houses-on-chicago-river-20110919,0,3626930.story
Hey O'Brien,
Charity begins at home. Try enrolling a child with Down Syndrome into a Catholic School in the Chicago Archdiocese. Do you know what you'll be told? No, I didn't think you would know. I also believe in charitable giving and charitable work; however, I took issue with the former pastors priorities. The truly needy are ignored while benefits are provided to a mutt with a three page sheet who, in between free meals and lodging, pulls his crank out in front of my daughters while urinating on the shrubs behind the church. So now you know why people resisted the idiot pastors plans. I'm happy to have had this opportunity to set you straight on this matter. So, O'Brien, go back to the Heritage Center with the rest of the piss pots. And don't forget your shinebox.
To Anonymous at 06:12:00PM 9/19 I'm glad you made it clear that many of the people suffering the outcome of this decision are folks like our own family members. These are family problems so everybody worries, panics and suffers together. I'm unaware of the situation mentioned, but agree wholeheartedly with your post.
Anonymous said...
Hey O'Brien,
Charity begins at home. Try enrolling a child with Down Syndrome into a Catholic School in the Chicago Archdiocese. Do you know what you'll be told? No, I didn't think you would know. I also believe in charitable giving and charitable work; however, I took issue with the former pastors priorities. The truly needy are ignored while benefits are provided to a mutt with a three page sheet who, in between free meals and lodging, pulls his crank out in front of my daughters while urinating on the shrubs behind the church. So now you know why people resisted the idiot pastors plans. I'm happy to have had this opportunity to set you straight on this matter. So, O'Brien, go back to the Heritage Center with the rest of the piss pots. And don't forget your shinebox.
9/19/2011 06:12:00 PM
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Well you obviously have some issues with the Archdiocese relative to admitting students with Downe's Syndrome. I would assume therefore that you have such a child. If so, I sympathize with you and admire your dedication to the child. Somehow or other, I fail to see how this relates to a priest, Man of God, Christian, Leader of a Flock, etc. trying to help his fellow man, actually our fellow man. Being charitable is certainly not a Leftist Philosophy as the original moron stated, and in fact is quite the opposite. Since I am not a member of that Parish, I cannot judge the issue. I do take exception to dumb folks using words like "Leftist" when they totally misunderstand the meaning. I will disregard your ill intentioned "shine box" remark becsuse it is outside the scope of the discussion.
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