Third World America

[Project Grudge]

Third World America

'More than a thousand people gathered Wednesday outside a metro-Atlanta shopping mall in hopes of being placed on a waiting list for federal housing assistance...

Television station 11Alive reports that the line for Section 8 housing vouchers formed two days ago and grew into the hundreds Tuesday night. People even slept outside the nightclub despite repeated assertions from the housing officials that the line was unnecessary and everyone would receive an application.

By Wednesday morning, the crowd had grown so large that East Point police began patrolling the area in riot gear and first responders were tending to people who were overheating in the sun...

UPDATE: Officials now estimate that a crowd of 30,000 turned out, three times what they had originally anticipated. Some in attendance may have been accompanying actual applicants even if they were not applying themselves. 13,000 applications were handed out.'

[Wilms]

1. In a related story - Reagan insider: 'GOP destroyed U.S. economy'

ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- "How my G.O.P. destroyed the U.S. economy." Yes, that is exactly what David Stockman, President Ronald Reagan's director of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote in a recent New York Times op-ed piece, "Four Deformations of the Apocalypse."

Get it? Not "destroying." The GOP has already "destroyed" the U.S. economy, setting up an "American Apocalypse."

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4500028&mesg_id=4500028

[Goldstein1984]

2. With a little better coordination...

They might have been able to get the UN to scoop out cups or rice, and Hugo Chavez to give vouchers for free heating oil.

[napi21]

3. No need for heating oil if you don't have a home. nt

[Goldstein1984]

4. Good point. But let's see

What could a homeless person with nothing left to lose do with a flammable liquid?

[sandnsea]

6. They're not necessarily homeless

Section 8 vouchers are for low-income people, with or without a home. They might have to move to find a landlord who accepts the vouchers, but they don't have to be homeless to get on the waiting list.

[Hannah Bell]

5. wtf? 30,000 people in one city & *455* vouchers, none of which are currently available?

in one location? what fool planned this riot?