Obama Priorities

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[Disgustipated]

Poutrage!!

 

[NeverEndingMe]

Poutrage!!

your great cuckold leader

 

[KingOrfeo]

God help us:

White House Chief of Staff Sent to San Francisco to Count Homeless
8:32 AM, FEB 4, 2015 • BY DANIEL HALPER

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs...sent-san-francisco-count-homeless_838866.html

Even the Center for American Progress commented on how "quietly" and "with little fanfare or press attention" McDonough's move was. "It was the first time such a high-ranking official from the White House had been part of the city’s count. The group counted 144 people living in eight square blocks within an hour and a half."

. . . And you object to this why?

 

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[KingOrfeo]

San Francisco is completely capable of counting their own homeless, The Chief of Staff for the most powerful man in the world is not needed to help count.

Not to "help count," no; but it makes perfect sense for the Admin to send somebody to observe the facts on the ground. Aren't you always complaining it's out of touch? This goes the other way.

“I didn’t know what to expect,” Obama's chief of staff told the Chronicle. “What I see here, what we just walked through, this is a problem. ... But this is the same sort of challenge we face all over the country. The numbers tell the story. And that’s why this count is so important.”

The Huffington Post reported, "The chief of staff said Obama simply wanted a firsthand account of how the city is fighting for its most vulnerable residents."

Huffpo link. Which does contain some good news:

In January of 2014, nationwide surveys for HUD, often referred to as point-in-time counts, found that there were 578,424 people experiencing homelessness in the U.S. Of that figure, 216,197 were people in families, and roughly 9 percent were veterans.

While those figures are hardly worth celebrating, annual data tracking homelessness has shown progress consistent with the country's climb out of the Great Recession. As The Washington Post reported in October, there's been a 10 percent drop in homelessness since 2010, when Obama launched an initiative focused on ending homelessness among groups that are disproportionately affected by the issue.

There's been a 33 percent drop in homelessness among veterans -- one of such populations -- in the same span of time.

Looks like the Admin is placing its priorities just where they should be, and it's helping.

 

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[KingOrfeo]

That fact that he's there doing that, proves Obama is out of touch, as is he.

How so? Walking around on the streets, looking at how many homeless there are and what street life is like for them -- this is an effort to stay in touch.

 

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[KingOrfeo]

Nobody in the White house in in touch with reality, we are at war for God's sake.

No, we are not. (Soon again maybe, if Obama gets that AUMF against ISIS, but not now.) And so what? What, do you think FDR's Admin, Truman's Admin, LBJ's Admin, paid no attention to domestic poverty in wartime?! If you think they should have paid none, you're an idiot and worse.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Nobody in the White house in in touch with reality, we are at war for God's sake. They are in an alternative universe.

When exactly did Congress declare war? They haven't even managed to approve an AUMF against ISIS. You need to write to your majority in congress.

By the way, are you ever going to get around to answering the question about your supposed "over 130 IQ"?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

We count niggers don't we? Counting darkies employs 1/2 of Washington.

 

[Disgustipated]

San Francisco is completely capable of counting their own homeless, The Chief of Staff for the most powerful man in the world is not needed to help count. It's another indicator of the insane disconnect between the priorities of the civil society and those of the children running the country.

Is Obama the most powerful man in the world or the coward you usually call him? You can't even remember your own bullshit anymore.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Note that they kept this trip very low-key and made no effort to attract media attention. Obama could have come himself and made it a photo-op, but apparently the Admin just thinks of this as routine fact-finding business that needs to be done, and rates a Chief of Staff's attention. Admirable attitude.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

So, in this thread Vette is essentially shitting on the veterans that comprise some of the homeless.

Damn. "I got mine, fuck you," huh?

It's a good thing you didn't get crippled out in the jungles of Southeast Asia fighting for "freedom" in a country that wasn't even a threat to our shores. Might've gotten strung out through depression and shit and get homeless and have all your good stand-up conservative patriots here straight kick to you the curb for being broken and useless.

 

[FGB]

The USA has NOT declared WAR.

Our self proclaimed enemies have and have not slacked off one little bit.

Just because it's not declared doesn't mean we are not in one.

The way Obama is leading, the war WILL be here soon enough on our streets in our neighborhoods.

Only then will some of the numb-nuts in this country get a clue.

Hopefully before them or their children's heads are cut off or the are burned to death.

Yeah harsh language but necessary.

 

[KingOrfeo]

The way Obama is leading, the war WILL be here soon enough on our streets in our neighborhoods.

There is the possibility of domestic terrorism, of course. That's dangerous, but no existential threat to America. More the FBI's and Homeland Security's problem than the DoD's.

Otherwise . . . the only way what you describe happens is, ISIS succeeds in expanding, and defeating all established governments and their armies, and taking control of all the Islamic world west of Iran (Shi'ite, y'know, won't fit), unites it into an Islamic Caliphate, develops that state into an industrial and military superpower capable of challenging the U.S. and its allies on land, sea and air, and then figures out a way to use that position to invade the U.S. with massed force without being itself destroyed in the process, even though the USSR in similar situation from 1947 through 1991 never figured that one out.

How likely do you think all that is?

 

[Boxlicker101]

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Originally Posted by vetteman View Post

God help us:

White House Chief of Staff Sent to San Francisco to Count Homeless
8:32 AM, FEB 4, 2015 • BY DANIEL HALPER

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/...ss_838866.html

Quote:

Even the Center for American Progress commented on how "quietly" and "with little fanfare or press attention" McDonough's move was. "It was the first time such a high-ranking official from the White House had been part of the city’s count. The group counted 144 people living in eight square blocks within an hour and a half."

. . . And you object to this why?

I think it's a waste of time to go to a specific place and count the people there who look like they might be homeless. They tend to congregate in several places. Also, you can't really tell who's homeless and who isn't. Somebody with a shopping cart stuffed with clothes, etc. is probably homeless but there are many who are not that obvious. At the same time, raggedness does not denote homelessness, especially in SF. If you really want to know, go to a place such as St. Anthony's Kitchen and count the people going in to eat. It's still not perfect, but you could get a better idea.

 

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[KingOrfeo]

None sent their Chief of Staff to the inner cites of America to count homeless.

No, they did a lot more than that . . . and maybe Obama would, if he had any hope Congress would back him . . . but this is cheap. And CoS is not there to count the homeless, of course SF authorities can do that, but to get a good look at them. That is important.

This President is a fucking idiot.

He's smarter than you by any measure. Also smarter than any high-profile Pub now in the field.

 

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[miles]

Originally Posted by KingOrfeo View Post
He's smarter than you by any measure. Also smarter than any high-profile Pub now in the field.

I don't care who you are...that right there is funny.

 

[KingOrfeo]

You weren't even alive then, so how the fuck do you know?

What FDR, Truman and LBJ did for the poor? I learned that in high school U.S. history.

Didn't you?

No he isn't smarter. He isn't governing as an American would, and he demonstrates sympathies for Eastern Culture repugnant to our core values.

As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.[3]

-- Treaty of Tripoli, 1796

 

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[KingOrfeo]

So show me a cite where those Chiefs of Staff counted derelicts across the fruited plain.

See post #20.