At least one good thing has come of the tragedy that is Detroit. No reasonable person will ever again claim that you can cure poverty by subsidizing it. The result of trying is economic and societal disintegration, not to mention outrageous waste:
Part of an $11 million grant intended to provide business attire to 400 low-income job-seekers instead helped only two people, an audit of the city’s Department of Human Services has found. …
The audit is the latest finding against the city’s Department of Human Services, which has been under scrutiny for chronic mismanagement of federal funds. … In 2009, the department received more than $11 million in stimulus funding and created a service center.
The center, at 1970 Larned, included the Customer Choice Pantry, the New Beginnings Clothing Boutique and a call center that had the capacity to service 60,000 families in need. The boutique was to provide business attire for low-income residents for job interviews.
To receive clothing, residents were required to have a job interview scheduled. According to the audit, the DHS was supposed to help 400 people between October 2010 and September 2011 but instead served only two.
At the rate Obama is destroying the value of our currency, before long $5,500,000.00 of taxpayer money per suit of government clothes will sound like a good deal.
$11M for 400 people. You gotta be shitting me. That's $27,500/person. Are these crack heads shopping on Rodeo Dr.?
ReplyDeleteOur out of control government. Just keep kicking the ball down the field so it's someone else's problem.
ReplyDeleteDon't get me started on Detroit. I live 5 miles away from the city border. If you go outside the main downtown area where the stadiums and casinos are you may not make it out. Do not get lost, do not go without knowing exactly how to get back to freeways, do not wander. It is not a city for out of towners as you need to know where you are and where you are going to stay out of trouble. The worst part is the city residents themselves are some of the most provincial people you will meet. No one can tell them how to do anything, because they are not from Detroit. Meanwhile they are broke, have a 20% high school graduation rate and exponentially increasing crime.
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Brock I am looking into it. I have a friend with some land in middle Alabama that he is offering if we can do it together and I am looking at Wyoming and Montana after the information you provided me with earlier this week. I am somewhat tied to the area through a home purchase and current employment but the more I think about it the more I am realizing staying here is an eventual death sentence. Do I keep on trying to sell the house and wait for that to happen" I don't want to wait and wait and never have it come about and then be stuck here when something does happen. Long winded I know, but thanks for asking.
ReplyDeleteI have a friend with some land in middle Alabama that he is offering if we can do it together
ReplyDeleteI think that would be OK as long as you are in a small town and these days you have to lose if you want to sell. You have to accept what they offer without getting insulted, unfortunately.
Really now,
ReplyDeleteWhat is the difference from Obama and Bush.
Bush?Cheney handed out $40 MILLION In cash to a couple from CA who had a Home repair business and were supposed to use it as walking around money in Iraq, nothing was EVER seen again.
Plus, look at all of the TARP taxpayer debt they put on all of us. I could go on and on and on........
THEY ARE ALL CORRUPT EVERY SINGLE ONE.
We only have one party: The government party, though we have our true crusader, Ron Paul nipping at their heels.
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