While some of us may equate being homeless with being on the streets and destitute, but in Los Angeles and I'm sure others cities around the country a new homeless person is being created. Please don't get me wrong my intentions are not to take away from the millions around the country who for one reason or another have loss their place to live and have ended up on the street. I'm talking about the millions of Americans who due to corporate greed and personal responsibility are unable to reach the "American Dream" while the chicken in my pot is mainly boneless skinless breast and my garage does not have two cars in it (it's mainly used for storage for all the things that will not fit in my one bedroom apartment) it does have two bicycles in it.
You may ask how personal responsibility has cause millions of Americans to be homeless. Yes these people go to work everyday, pay their bills on time, understand that there are others who have less than them and even give to charity as well as routinely give to organizations such as Good Will, Salvation Army and many other humane organizations. Some may even grumble a little but pay their taxes maybe even more so than many other Americans (if you didn't attend a tea party then this is you)
So you say who are these people where can I send a check to help them, is there a donation box at my local Whole Foods I wanna do my share. Well the truth of the matter is they are more than likely right next to you they are the millions of hard working Americans who didn't run out and grab up all the to good to be true home loans. They are not sitting around waiting for the the American tax payer to help them pay for a home they shouldn't have been in, in the first place. they were not sitting around buying up over priced property hoping to put in a little crown molding, a new kitchen counter top and hardwood floors and make an over priced property even more over priced. They lived in quaint little neighborhoods and enjoyed what they were able to afford and made the best of it until it was discovered that their quaint little apartment building would make such a great place to build some over priced condos that no one could afford. So these people kept their heads down and did what they could. After the greed dust cleared they found that maybe they could actually reach that "American Dream" so they go out look for that little place to call their own. But the banks seem to remember there old economics lessons that low supply means high demands and so the released their properties that they've forclosed in such small numbers, each property creates a bidding war. Remember we the tax payer bailed out the banks for for all those bad Loans they wrote. Houses are being sold for twice the asking price. The days of a seller giving a price and the buyer countering are long over. Nothing is done without the expectation of maximum profit. So the person who played by the rules and resisted temptation is unable to get a home.
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While just strolling the net, call it happenstance. I run across the rants of two people that I have happened to grow up with. These are two people who I have always admired and respected greatly. To come to think of it I always thought that they had similar political and social views, and maybe they still do. One is the original poster here and the other is who's excerpts I shall post below. I hope that I am not doing Bo a disservice, by the way by possibly taking him out of context, Much love to both of you.
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RUSH: Let's bring in our Official Obama Criticizer, Mr. Bo Snerdley. Let me know when the electronics and the technology are ready, because I think... Does the Obama criticizer have something to say about this? Would you like to weigh in?
SNERDLEY: Thank you very much, Rush. Official Obama Criticizer Bo Snerdley here. I have a question.
RUSH: Wait, wait. You are "officially black enough to criticize," right?
SNERDLEY: "Officially black enough to criticize," right on, brother!
RUSH: Okay, good.
SNERDLEY: Um, Obama, what's up with this, yo? Here you got... First of all, everybody keeps saying the man was arrested in his house. Does anybody stop and actually read the newspaper, yo? Well, there's only one or two left out there. Um, it's not his house. The house belongs to Harvard! He's just chilling in it, yo. That's number one. Secondly, you got two brothers roll up on the house, right? Okay, put yourself in that situation, yo. You got two brothers roll up on the house, somebody calls the cops and says, "Yo, man, there's two people out there, man. I think they get in. You know, something's up over there." They go in the house, right? Okay? The boy should be like, "Yo, man, thanks, yo, for showing up. Everything is cool over here. Nobody else is in here. See you later. Out!" No. Now it blows up. But I got a question for you, Rush. Where's Colin Powell?
RUSH: That is a fascinating question. By the way, since you mention it, Colin Powell does come up as a discussion item in Part Two of my interview with Greta Van Susteren tonight. But that is an interesting question: Where is Colin Powell weighing in on this issue? I'd like you also, as the Official Obama Criticizer, to explain what the Cambridge police organization said; what they meant when they said that there's no racial profiling there; that they know that racial profiling happens elsewhere in the country, but it doesn't happen there. Why would you think that there's no racial profiling in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Harvard is located?
SNERDLEY: This is Cambridge. Come on, man! What you think we're talking about? Queens, New York? Brooklyn? Kill-a-delphia? Detroit? SanFran, yo? This is Cambridge. We have the upper crust of the upper crust here! The black people in Cambridge aren't really like, you know...black like, you know, urban black. They're like super black! They're not like the other brothers. These are the... I'm going to quote the vice president: The clean ones, the smart ones, the articulate ones. So we don't profile the clean, articulate, smart brothers.
RUSH: As the vice president said.
SNERDLEY: As the vice president, Joe Biden, said.
RUSH: That's right. About Obama. About Obama.
SNERDLEY: About Obama.
RUSH: Exactly right.
SNERDLEY: Yeah, right. You know. That was before Joe Biden stopped over at that Indian deli 7-Eleven thing, but that was another story. So in Cambridge they don't profile black people because the black people there are like white people. Except they're black...kinda.
RUSH: Sort of like --
SNERDLEY: They're different.
RUSH: Except for the way they think.
SNERDLEY: They're "clean."
RUSH: (laughs) Um...
SNERDLEY: They're "articulate."
RUSH: I think that pretty much sums it up. All right.
SNERDLEY: They smile -- except for Louie Gates.
RUSH: Oh. Oh, yes, the professor. The distinguished Professor Gates: Louie. Well, I appreciate that. That's the Official Obama Criticizer, Bo Snerdley, answering the most pressing question of the day: Why is there no racial profiling in Cambridge? And how can this Eric Dyson clown claim that Louie is "the Rosa Parks of racial profiling" now? I'll tell you, it's the Duke lacrosse case all over. Barack Nifong is leading the charge.
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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to offer a slight correction to something stated by the Official Obama Criticizer. The Official Obama Criticizer stated essentially there was no racial profiling in Cambridge, Massachusetts. There is. It's in the admissions policy at Harvard University, but not on the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The racial profiling that occurs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, does not involve the police. It involves the liberals that run Harvard University. We haven't seen any police testing. There hasn't been any case, say, brought before a judge like Sonia Sotomayor to see if cops face an unfair test in Cambridge, Mass., but that's probably coming. Also, it's not just the police in Cambridge who are asking Obama to apologize.
A press release yesterday: "Dr. Richard S. Kerr, M.D., a West Virginia Libertarian Party member and a retired doctor with 36 years experience, asked President Barack Obama Thursday to apologize for comments made in his Wednesday night press conference accusing doctors of conspiring to make children sicker for profits." So there's a lot of people that want Barack Nifong to apologize but he's not going to apologize because ACORN does not apologize. Law enforcement does not apologize. And you can say the cops are over here, but the number-one law enforcement officer in the country is Barack Nifong -- judge, jury, hanging judge, prosecutor, you name it. And he's in action in full gear.
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