FOXNews' John Gibson: Bush Saved The Homeless, Won Iraq And Gave You A Job
So STFU you stupid libs, and get to reporting the GOOD news about George W. Bush. If it weren't for you dirty f*cking hippies reporting the truth, President Bush's approval ratings would be skyrocketing by now -- at least that's what FOXNews' John Gibson wants his fringe fans to believe. Note the source-free "published report" on homelessness and the "be good little Germans" tone to his writing.
So are doubts about all this good news the reason that Bush's disapproval numbers are so high? I don't think so. I think it is instead the tide of bad news turning to better or — dare I say it — good news isn't discussed in the media. Instead it's a constant drumbeat of things are bad, we're losing the war, you're going to lose your job and your house.
On yet another front, a published report today said that homelessness is virtually over. People may have crushing mortgages, but they have homes.So all in all, the war is going in our favor. Proof of that is that Democrats have shut up about it. Bush has made sure you have a job, and this economy has insured you have a home.
I don't normally link to FOXNews' website, but this article is so absurd, and I did come down on Gibby for his lack of sources so I figured I would go ahead and link it just to be on the safe side. I would hate for anyone to think I could ever make up garbage like this. You can read the rest of the article and fact check said garbage................ here.
And for Christmas, we're all getting health care and a pony!
While all eyes ares on the dual housing and credit crises, a new study revealed the continuing and steady decline of employer-based health coverage in the United States. Once the lynchpin of the U.S. health care system, workplace health insurance now covers only 59.7% of Americans, down from 64.2% in 2000. And making matters worse, surging health care costs, insurance premiums and employees' own contributions continue to exceed inflation and the growth in wages.
For the details, see:
"Employer-Provided Health Coverage Continues to Decline."
"You can read the rest of the article and fact check said garbage……………. here."
No thanks. I just ate.
All that War on Halloween Candy he's been eating must be affecting his blood sugar.
Now this is a novel metric:
I guess that's all they wanted: a little quiet so they could commit their war crimes in peace.
Heckuva job, Dems.
sad things is i know a lot of retards who watch this moron and believe every word he says...
Umm..., I guess he hasn't been to OUR city lately.. I drove past two homeless just this afternoon. It is not a very big city either.
But, if they say something, or if they say it enough times, I guess it must then be true...
I'm so pleased to learn that homelessness is over. I often see homeless disabled veterans begging along interstate off ramps as I drive home from work. I'd even read that the percentage of veterans among the homeless is more than twice their percentage of the general population. How lovely that Bush has fixed all this. Shame on the liberal media for hiding this wonderful truth from us.
oil is 70 dollars a barrel more than before the war but Gibby doesn't care. His top 1 percent friends only care about their cigars and cognac
"News Flash From INGSOC"
Due to our recent victories over the Eurasian hordes, chocolate rations will be increased from 30 grams per week to 50 grams, an increase of 60 percent!
jtmonty46 @ 10:
lmfao! Perfect.
I guess the homeless folks in my city didn't get that memo either. It will be news to them.
Ah yes, comrade and more good news! The 2000 5 year plan is, as usual, ahead of schedule.
Gibson's never not been a moron.
Interesting. My local new paper just informed me today that there are 50,000 HOMELESS VETERANS just in the state of California. Veterans make up one in four homeless people in the US.
Data from 2005 estimated that 194,254 homeless people out of 744,313 on any given night where veterans.
So ummm, not only is homelessness not over and not only is the war less than peachy, but our war and previous wars are causing these people to lose their minds and become unable to function in society or put a roof over their heads.
If only we lived in la-la land like this guy though, then we could convince ourselves its always sunshine and roses.
"My loyal subjects," said Bush, speaking from his great White House atop a shining hill, "once upon a time, the Kingdom was beset with great dangers, and the Bear ran amok on Wall Street, and the Islamofascists menaced us with their great rockets, and everyone was much afraid. But, henceforth, I decree that all Americans will be happy and live in comfy houses filled with plenty of good things to eat, and all mommies and daddies will be kind and all children good, and the Wizard Neo-cons shall set loose the great Bull, and we shall all live happily forever and ever."
The Good People of America were then overjoyed and, taking President Bush on their shoulders, paraded him thrice about the Great White House and gave him three cheers, for they were a very good American People indeed, and President Bush was a very good President indeed, and they were very, very happy.
Plagiarized gleefully from the Onion.
Sometimes one hears or reads something that makes them wish that some new form profanity had been invented because we just don't have a word vulgar enough to express our shock, outrage and disbelief at what we have just experienced.
Why has FOX shut up about the Iraq war if it's going so well? They have less coverage of the war than CNN and MSNBC combined.
Only dumb-assed fools watch FOX. They want FOX proselytizing them "you are special, you are better" (even though you are really a fat, useless, self-centered, waste-of-space pig) "because you are an American". These are the sludge of American citizenry. Brainless, mindless, selfish slobs.
nwmuse @ 7:
Those weren't the Homeless, those were the Domicile Challenged!!
People may have crushing mortgages, but they have homes.
Yeah, so, uhm, Gibby...when did they buy those homes?
And does a crushing mortgage rank somewhere between an affordable mortgage and a comfortable mortgage? 'Cause if that's so, I'd like a crushin' mortgage to go along with my miserable wage, my barely affordable gasoline prices and my hyper-inflated food and clothin' costs.
Enough already. The way to jumpstart this economy is with another WAR !!!! War is good for the economy. It has been proven again and again.
The plan is ready Mr. President, let's be the Hero of the Day, and start the war with Iran
WTF??? Hello Gibson, those people in FEMA trailers ARE homeless. They have no where to go becuase their jobs are here along the Coast, and there are no apartments or houses for rent that they can afford with the money they make. Add the dispersed homeless sent to various states and quarantined in camplike conditions, add the people who are in public housing, and you have Goddamn nightmare. But no you wouldn't add the public housing people, because then you wouldn't have them to bitch about.
another fox news reader on goof balls!
the bush admin. has cured the homeless problem by declaring that the homeless are simply free spirits on an extended camp-out. renaming has wiped out the homeless they can be The Drifters---that even has a cowboyesque ring too don't you think? at any rate if john gibson is running out of
thehomelessdrifters in his area; there seem to be plenty here in san diego. i'm not even downtown, imagine thefreshsupply there:)but you don't have to go all the way west! there are
homelesswanderers in chicago, portland or., and even lexington kentucky.Sorry...I have no desire to click on a FAUX "News" link. I trust you.
What planet does Gibson hail from? Drove through the downtown center of my metro area and found people on the street begging. Talked to a woman six months ago from the Gulf Coast who said plenty of folks still don't have homes and how long has it been since Katrina? And if Iraq has been won, what are US troops still doing there?
Veterans make up 11 percent of the population but 25 percent of the homeless. The Bush administration is just not doing right by the people who have served their country.
And after making this bold statement, Gibson turned his head towards Tony Snow, standing off-screen, and asked:
"So, did I pass the audition?"
I love this guy. Always good for a laugh.
They should rename his show the 1/2 Hour News Hour 2.0
Mmmm... Yummy Kool-Aid. Me! Give more! Give!
I think he's using the term "virtually" in the "fake, not real" meaning. ;-)
Bush has made sure WHO has jobs? Kool-aid drinkers like Gibson?
I guess we should also be extremely grateful for how great the dollar is doing against almost every other currency.
We need the CDC investigating this lying disease that seems to have infested the MSM.
What the hell he's smoking? What a idiot!
If there has ever been a post here even remotely positive about Bush, about any strength in the economy whatsoever, or a positive development in Iraq, it will have been a first.
One house, one car, a family. THATS THE DEAL
John Gibson looks like he is practicing his minneappolis airport oral stance,
don't you think? with all the shit coming out of his piehole, someone needs to
pack it all back in for him.
SEIG HEIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dennis @ 33:
Enlighten me, please. Strength in the economy? The US debt just topped $9 TRILLION for the first time. Is there a positive here that's being missed?
Guy looks like he should be preaching from a pulpit. With that stupid lacquer head hairdo and scorn on his mouth.
Oh wait, he is. The Church of Fox
"And to prove that there are no homeless people, we'll be rounding them up in special camps where they will be punished for having the audacity to beg for change in front of you, instead of moving to a more lucrative place to find a job."
Anyway, I'll just submit this related flash movie.
hope @ 37:
He graduated from PT Barnum University. With Pat Robertson and all the rest of the Fox talking heads.
Ironically, reporting that no good news is reported is, um, reporting bad news.
How about reporting some good news for a change, Mr. Gibson?
oh how ridiculous - one in four of all homeless people are veterans - this from presumably the same report Gibson is citing - homelessness is never over until every single one of these people has a job
talk about a need for welfare - why does this country not house its veterans in golden castles like we do our elected officials?
Homelessness is over? I work for a non-profit that serves poor and homeless people in San Francisco and we didn't get a memo! I better go check my box to see if my pink slip is in there...
Only a true delusional ass would say something so vulgar
>>Enlighten me, please. Strength in the economy? The US debt just topped $9 TRILLION for the first time. Is >>there a positive here that's being missed?
I don't have a positive on hand, but I have a negative to add about the economy....the dollar has lost about a third of it's value during this administration. What would this moron say about that inconvenience truth?
People can only take so much cognitive dissonance. Elderly people, the folks who apparently watch this show, can see the world for themselves.
Ol Gibby probably just got a review of his ratings, and it is making him a tad cranky. Either that, or he is just running out of crank.
His job is to keep repeating the propaganda over and over. Until he looks like a complete idiot.
My dad watches this ass-clown, too. Sigh.
This is a classic.
"On yet another front, a published report today said that homelessness is virtually over."
What kind of mind altering substance is this character on?
The competition is fierce at FOX for "Most Evil," and I don't think Gibby wins that trophy. But he might very well be their stupidest "talent." His "My Word" columns are uniformly idiotic. Like his fans. Both of them.
Hey!!! John Gibson owes me a new keyboard...I spit cola all over it when I heard his bullshit! oh, excuse me...his unbelievable bullshit about Bush's great job!
Hey, John, if poverty no longer exists under Bush, how about going to any local inner-city and seeing it for yourself?
seriously...what the fuck is wrong with these people?
Ah, Gibson.
Ole' Five-In-The-Noggin's intellect is matched only by his haircut.
speachless... really
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez @ 52:
Their insane. Obviously.
As the economy collapses from the typical repugnacan mismanagement you should be grateful for the job you about to be laid off from. Be grateful that the true rate of inflation has been closer to 15 percent than 3 even though 3% is the biggest raise you are likely to get. The people that weren't around for the Reagan disaster with the savings and loans don't know what they are in for. It's gonna get bad. Real bad, and it all belongs to monkey boy.
John Gibson sucks on Aqua-dots.
Bush gave us jobs, sure. Tell that to the 5,000 employees that are being let go at GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals in the US.
Rubink @ 44:
Exactly. And if it was any other administration, the media would be all over it and never let it die. I don't watch much of the MSM but I don't get the impression they're covering this important story much at all. But, hey...it only effects most of us.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,307117,00.html
This is a guy that think if you see something in the sky and don't know what it is, are judge to be a crazy person link with big foot and Martians. Studies have shown that many people have seen something in the sky that they could not identify and not consider crazy and the govt takes this stuff seriously to even employ a expert on UFO sighting. This is intimidation on the part of John Gibson to smear Dennis with implausible connection between Unidentifiable flying object to imaginable delusion of creatures. Hell! I mistaken John Gibson many time for the evil priest, Malachai of the "children of the corn" movies. Am I crazy?
1 In 4 Homeless Americans Are Veterans
So John, tell me......are these phony homeless vets?
What a jerk!
L.A. #46
I say mission accomplished!
Coffins draped in flags @ 58:
And that's just the first wave of layoffs... there are many more to come.
blogenfreude @ 1:
Fuck the healthcare-gimme TWO ponies!
joshdavis @ 42:
Sorry, that same report says there are 744,313 homeless in the US, 194,254 of whom, "on any given night," are vets.
Obviously not the same report, as there is no recent, statistically-accurate report saying homelessness in the US is virtually over -- unless one imagines 3/4 of a million people are nobodies.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071108/ap_on_re_us/homeless_veterans
Also, the unemployment rate is currently 4.7% (http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm). It would need to come down quite a bit to get "these people" jobs.
I've been that drunk.
I refuse to call this half witted bigot "Gibby".
That by far has to be the funniest thing I have read since Clarence Thomas' ruling that Bush won the 2000 elections. In the words of John McEnroe, YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS!!!!.
Apparently that report was put out by the Marie Antoinette Foundation, a Republican 'think tank,' for which Barbara Bush is a big patron. It takes the viewpoint that if you can't SEE the poor, they don't exist.
That is interesting since "published reports" also describe the foreclosure rates as skyrocketing with no end in sight. I somehow doubt that this would end homelessness. I went into the city last weekend and noticed a remarkable number of homeless people who apparently didn't get the memo. Should I return soon, I will be sure to update them.
My favorite is when a news anchor whines that the "media" doesn't report good news and then sights "published reports" as the sole basis for the good news that they then report.
From the article: "When history gets hold of the story and begins to carve things in stone, I think the picture will be much different than the one you are seeing today."
Yeah, when "history" gets hold of things around here, it tends to embellish quite a bit. White people are so great.
Dateline: Oct 12,2008
Not exactly a year, but I may have gone into exile before the month is up.
So how much has changed? The war in Iraq is over. We won. No banks have failed, no-one has lost their homes. The world is calm, there is no crisis. Nobody has lost a dime from their savings accounts, everyone now has health insurance. AIDS has been cured, the genocide in Africa is a distant memory.
The nation has no debt crisis, and world hunger?? What ?? Never heard of it. Ask your Grandpa. Maybe he can remember it. All thanks to a certian born again President. My Thanks.
I'm not sarcastic, and that's the truth.
Leave a message on my answering machine... I'll answer... as soon as I get back. trust me.
Mr BuyGold
MplsTOC @ 8:
So The "Smart Economy" Is Not Really Smart
The joke is over, and people now see we have been living in a paper feel good economy. However, the reality have become so obvious that the lie cannot continue. It's not working anymore.
It took this long for the American people to see Bush created a phony economy. Do you recall the 2004 elections? The lie about the economy was born, as Bush took the the attitude you can make anything look good on paper, and that is what he did.
I think it was the latest round of high ass gas prices that woke the masses up. "This man have been lying to us." People can see that the economy is just a tick away from total collapse. If we are lucky, we may be able to get out of this with inflation. And that is the lucky outcome.
Will it take the same kind of "slap in the face" to come to grips with the rest of the damage this president has perpetrated on the American people? Do you think, so smart American will say "Bush lied about this war and many people died from this lie?" When do we let people walk for contributing to the death of humans beings? When did we say the president has the right to cause mass killings in another country just as long as he says it is for the safety of the American people?
For haven sakes people, connect the dam dots. I did not say lie do yourself. You need only be honest with what this president has actually done. He must be impeached, charged with murder on a genocidal scale, and put in a prison cell with a guy name Bubba for the rest of his unnatural life.
Joseph
Shouldn't Gibson be trying to make more white babies?
Exchange Rates over a 2 year period:
U.S. Dollar to Euro Exchange Rate
U.S. Dollar to Canadian Dollar Exchange Rate
U.S. Dollar to Chinese Yuan Exchange Rate
Looks like the economy is going swimmingly!
RancidVenison @ 71:
Any more years of the repugs in the white house and we will all be carving in stone.
~300 million Americans / ~740,000 homeless = ~400
One in 400 Americans is homeless. Sounds like a lot of people to me...
RancidVenison @ 71:
This is my favorite gem of logic that is being repeated today. By all means, name three things that history has re-told as being better than when it actually happened. This reasoning can be best described as the "shit eventually loses its stench" logic. That pile will smell better in a few years.
"..........said Gibson to the dying ducks in Faux's limited pond where he saw his own image holding it's nose.
On yet another front, a published report today said that homelessness is virtually over
Source: "Homelessness Is Virtually Over"
Author: Ron Dibson, Institute of Recto-Extractive Analysis
Published: Renard Press, November 2007
Yep, I have a job. I lost my god job and had to take a crappy one. And yep, I have a home. A crappy home that is going to be forclosed upon soon.
Thanks, President Bush.
I've got Gibby, Gibby, Gibby
on my cable, cable, cable.
he is crazy, crazy, crazy
I'm unable, able able
to get Gibby, Gibby, Gibby
off my cable, cable, cable.
Apparently Gibson doesn't understand Finance 101. Yes it is true that a record number of Americans under the Bush regime are home owners. But this is because banks were willing to lend to at risk borrowers money to by homes at below prime rates only to be raised in the future knowing they could not afford to pay the new rates. Yet not realizing the effects it would have on the economy. They suckered people into borrowing knowing they couldn't afford it. Simply put, give them a house and we'll take it from them and sell at a profit. Gibson seems to think with this mortgage crunch that these people, because of the faith and good will of the lenders will be able to keep their houses without being able to pay for it. Newsflash for Gibby, the houses are going to be taken away from these people and because of their crushed credit rating, no one will ever lend them a thing for the next seven years. Homeless and poverty? At record levels. Who the fuck does he think he's fooling? FOX viewers, the morons of America. Winning the war in Iraq? 2007 not even over but the deadliest year since the war started. It's terribly sad that the 32 percenters still believe this crap and the evangelicals will still vote conservative. I'm to a point where I'd vote for Hillary if I knew it would kill the Republican party and take 20 years to recover. Give me a third party though.
we'd better get used to this.
we're gonna get a WHOLE YEAR of this crap.
Team "R" can say ANY GODDAM THING.
who's gonna stop 'em?
John has been sucking on the Roofie toys from China, I see.
Is he an albino?
George Bush also terraformed Jupiter, producing millions of acres of arable farmland.
I am sick of FOX and all of their bullshit, just like most of you are. they would find a way to spin or blame a democrat if Bush got a DUI or if he or failed a piss test ( WHICH I FEEL IS IN ORDER). This administration, according do FOX, has had nothing but success since they started. yet the TRUE facts are everywhere you look. I see the homeless, I see people losing their jobs, i see the millions of people that can't afford health care, i know people that have to decide between food on the table or gas in their car. these pricks haven't driven themselves anywhere in years, they don't have a clue how much it cost to fill their gas tanks. I'm sick of it. they talk about what they DON'T know because they don't want to know. HEY FOX BASTARDS, look out the window of your ivory tower sometime you might actually learn or see something.
I have to work with some of these asshole repricks that think the world evolves around them. if you talk health care they want to say that their happy with their coverage... Hey dickhead this isn't about you, its about the guy you have cutting your yard or the guy you have cleaning your pool. these are the hard working people that don't have/can't have insurance.
these are the people that i hope when they get to the pearly gates, St. Pete says "your kidding right".
I especially love the "people have crushing mortgages, but they have homes" line. (He needs to add "crushing property taxes" to that. Every year I'm close to being forced to sell my home due to exhorbitant property taxes.) I'm grateful for my home but the crushing mortgage may mean I'll have to wander off into the wilderness once I retire because my "crushing mortgage" doesn't allow for savings.
He's also illiterate.
insured or in·sureds One who has or is covered by an insurance policy.
Perhaps he meant ensured?
Can't say I'm surprised …
I've just returned from spending a few weeks in the 'Mur-kan South (spelt with an uppercase to denote attitude as well as location). I'm not necessarily bashing the region but Gibson must be drinking the same water as the good folk in those southern red states, because this sounds like the gibbersh that passes for bar conversations in that part of the world, once the college football situation has been discussed. It all brought to mind the immortal words of Dean Wormer, that "Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life". I'm fairly confident that Gibson meets two of those three criteria, a breathalyzer would settle the third.
Joseph @ 72:
Sorry, but GW didn't win 2004, note sure if you got that memo ; )
On another note, the people get the leaders, (and maybe they media) they deserve, until they act like they give a dern it will be the same ole kool aid (or maybe diet kool aid). I personaly want grape menthol flavored kool aid. yum
They left out the part where John Gibson said, "A large herd of bison were seen stampeding on the moon".
John Gibson: Talking Turd.
Why don't you PhotoShop some flies buzzing around this guy's mouth the next time...to go with the crap coming out of it.
It's wasn't just a report. It was a PUBLISHED report. Who could doubt that?
How can we reconcile this with the recent news items that of the homeless, upto 1 in 4 are veterans (vs 11% of the general population) and there are hundreds of thousands of them?
Well, obviously we can't (and this is yet another thing that is an absolute disgrace).
Lollimom @ 92:
:lol:
Yea, and Larry Craig toe taps in men's room stalls because he has Restless Leg Syndrome.
That's good lying Johnny...
Fox News employees need to be tetsted for neurosyphilis.
Bitter Scribe @ 93:
:lol:
Loonie @ 85:
now I gotta go get the thesasaurusis! :lol:
Tequila @ 51:
or any suburban mini-mall where people will meet you outside of the supermarket. they dress just a bit better that the inner city homeless. a bit more presentable.
Has Gibson ever been right about anything? He's such a lightweight and a clown.
Yeah. Right.
Now back to planet Earth.
thankfully, no video to post.
OK this is the "published report"
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-11-06-homeless_N.htm
If in fact Gibson meant homelessness was "virtually over" in the coloquial implied sense, not as in his own virtual reality, then he is a flat out liar and should be called out as such.
From the article:
"The number fell 12% to 155,623 in January 2006 from 175,914 in January 2005, according to a report by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The report is based on data — taken on a single day — from 3,900 cities and counties."
Since when is a 12% drop an elimination of a problem as "virtually over" seems to suggest.
So the number 155,623 doesn't seem like that much in a country of 300 mil, homelessness is "virtually over" then, in a sense (generously)
But that conclusion is false if in fact Gibson read the entire article.
"...the chronically homeless represent only 10% of people who experience homelessness at some time during the year"
So that means 1.5mil people experience homelessness each year. more than 1 in 300 Americans.
Not so over John.
BTW why is this guy even on TV? He is so ugly an untalented. Say what you will about O'Reily, at least he has personality (bad)
It is not GOOD fiction, but it is fiction.
Angry One @ 2:
Thank you thank you thank you for that link! Whats even more frightening is that Americans that do have health insurance actually think they have health insurance. Until the sh*t hits the fan!
There is absolutely no incentive for a city or a county or a state to tell anyone how many homeless people are in their midst. Even if they could count them they would want to downplay the numbers. I can just see the Chamber of Commerce:
"Hello! Visit Anytown, USA where we have one of the nation's fastest growing homeless populations!"
Give me a break!
1 in 4 homeless people are Vietnam Vets.
The Bush Drones once again demonstrate their indifference to both
the homeless
and
the soldiers he sends to die for his vanity!
BoilThemInTheirOil @ 18:
EXCELLENT!!
The only positive I can imagine from the stock market tanking and taking the whole economy with it is that reality will finally wipe that smug expression off this stupid asshole's face.
slippytoad @ 112:
way too much to ask of an asshole like gibby.
What? No homeless people? Who are the dozens of people I see begging for cash on my way to work? This moron needs to come to San Francisco for at least 10 minutes and hang at a soup kitchen. What a f-king moron!
Daniela @ 114:
Oh those people! They are CEO's attempting to suppliment their $164,000 an hour saleries while doing a little market research.
Ever read 'Bloom County' during the Raygun years?
Gibson looks like one of rightwing nutjob characters to a tee ... too funny. Nice vid grab too! lol ...
The more I hear him talk, the more I think John Gibson is the craziest of the Fox News talking heads.
I'm still flabbergasted whenever I hear his "Bottom line, we need more babies!" shtick
STFU Gibbie, you feckless, reckless bundle of inferior DNA.
Bubble Boy and you and your vile ilk almost make me believe in eugenics.
Gibson:
Yeah, the ones who don't have homes? Well, they are not defined as people - they are defined as non-entities now. And the ones who do have homes with crushing mortgages? Well, hell, let them eat cake...before they are thrown out of their homes and become non-entities.
I guess that the only homeless people left are....Iraq veterans. What an accomplishment.
Something about Gibsons head....... looks like a cross between a bowling ball and Mr Potato head.
"If it weren’t for you dirty f*cking hippies reporting the truth..."
Misgnomer!!
I want a pound of whatever is being smoked at the Fox Studio!
ciu @ 110:
Not necessarily just Vietnam Vets but also people who were in the Gulf Wars as well.
j swift @ 13:
..the one that was instituted, 7 years ago?
Isn't it the FCC's job to prevent this kind of lying, manipulative propaganda from ever happening? God help Ruppert Murdoch if the corrupt FCC is ever restored to integrity.
It is estimated that there are 80,000 to 95,000 homeless children in California.
In absolute terms, there are more homeless children today in California than ever before. The percentage of children who are homeless is greater today than at any time since the Great Depression
43% of homeless children are molested; 66% are violently abused.
Homeless children are 12 times more likely to wind up in foster care than housed children.
Over 20% of homeless children do not attend school at all.
When in school, homeless kids are twice as likely to repeat a grade or be suspended.
Homeless children go hungry twice as often as other children.
Homeless children have 5 times more stomach and diarrhea problems, and 4 times as much asthma.
Homeless children are reported in fair or poor health twice as often as housed children.
http://www.housingadvocates.org/default.asp?ID=170
What about Redding and Shasta County ?
http://redding.com/news/2007/mar/27/more-suffer-street-county/
There is Hope .....
Sacramento –Senator Denise Moreno Ducheny’s (D-San Diego) Senate Bill (SB) 303 was approved by the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee
Along with a diverse list of California organizations supporting the Housing Affordability Act The California State Firefighters Association, PORAC (Peace Officers Research Association of California) and Father Joe’s Ministries of San Diego were among the SB 303 supporters which attended the hearing to urge its passage.
SB 303 aims to reverse the trend of California’s housing supply falling far behind the ever-growing demand. It is this imbalance that economists say is one of the primary reasons for the runaway prices in California’s housing market that make homes unaffordable for much of the state’s workforce. SB 303 is designed to ensure responsible planning, require full compliance with environmental laws and boost affordable housing for all income levels, Ducheny told the committee. Local and regional governments will maintain control of the current process for determining how much housing is needed (Regional Housing Needs Assessment, RHNA) and where it will go. Now, however, the land will be zoned when the site for housing is chosen by the local community.
“More certainty means lower prices,” Ducheny said. “People who build our homes, people who keep our communities safe and teach our kids are still being priced out of the market. Our local governments have the right and responsibility to plan for places for people to live. We just want them to go the extra step of making sure that their process provides places that are truly appropriate for the housing they’re planning,”
Mathew Packard, vice president of Father Joe’s Villages, testified that his group’s charitable organizations work with the homeless, under-employed and people with AIDS among others.
“The Housing Affordability Act recognizes that all communities have a role to play in providing housing that all Californians can afford,” said Packard. “It is an important contribution of this bill that it recognizes that those on the lowest economic rungs must be included in our vision of the future: not with handouts, but with a chance to live a life they can afford and continue to be an essential part of our communities.”
Other organizations supporting SB 303 include the California Business Roundtable, AFSCME, California Council of Churches Impact, California Black Chamber Foundation, Major Builders Council, California Affordable Housing, Inc. and the California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance.
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Nazi......nuff said.
As repulsive as these propaganda stories are from shysters like Fox, they actually show how desperate the elites are mindfucking the slave class. Expect the MSM insanity to increase as the country sinks deeper into the shitter.
I'm so happy to hear that, Gibby What a relief! Why, I was just downtown here in Detroit and lots of homeless guys DO have homes! These fancy digs are mostly cardboard boxes, freeway bridge embankments and abandoned crack houses. And food? The soup kitchens are bustling with business! Why, the food is so good people line up 4 Hours before mealtimes. So many cute kids waiting for the only meal of the day...After all, we must take care to discourage childhood obesity. ---- Hey, Gibby, why not come visit me here!! You can see for yourself the wonderful success of the Bush Administration! And if you ask nice, I might arrange a sleepover for you at the steam grate on Lafayette and Randolph. I'm sure that Stan and Clement would make room for one more.
Aneuploidic Nazi.
An open letter.
Dear Mr. Gibson,
Please feel free to visit my local homeless shelter(s), or any other ones in any other town, and tell those people that "homelessness is virtually over". Let's see if you can make it back to your SUV in one piece. Jackass.
I thank you for your time.
On yet another front, a published report today said that homelessness is virtually over. People may have crushing mortgages, but they have homes.
I guess they can abolish the law banning feeding the homeless in Orlando, Florida now. It won't be needed any longer.
Up until the Russian tanks were about to march into Berlin, Nazi news reels were lauding how the glorious German army was crushing the inferior slavic hordes, and how the half breeds that made up the Allied armies were being sent back packing across the Atlantic.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The only sad part is that even at the height of totalitarian propaganda organizations like Pravda, most Russians for example took Pravda for what it was: Propaganda. The scary part is the relative high percentage of Americans which watch a FOX news cast and take it seriously...
I feel so bad for deriding this president. He has done so much for this country. And there I go saying shameful things about him. How dare I.
Dr. Who @ 134:
Oh good grief, Dr. Who. Could you possibly amp up the hyperbole any more? This is so much like the Fall of Berlin, isn't it? Anyone who disagrees with that must surely be under the spell of Bill O'Reilly.
cristalyn @ 124:
Shameful! Will this be the fate of the Iraq War Vets as well. What is the saying? The best clue into the future is the past?
Come on, that's not real... it's a passage from 1984.
Right?
Isn't it?
It's not?!
FUUUUUUUUUUUCK.
What a right wing shit weasel hack moron.
I don't have to fact-check the homeless stats; I work in Washington DC near K and 19th, and see homeless people every day.
Gibson is expressing his inner tool.
StealthBadger @ 139:
Clarifying: K & 19th NW - I walk by Grover Norquist's office every day. Fmeh. -_-
StealthBadger @ 140:
And for accuracy's sake - "near" means "within a block of."
Note to self: don't post without coffee in the morning.
Doesn't he look like Beaker from the Muppets?
Incompetent Bastard!
I have something positive to say: Bush signed a bill to provide suicide prevention capabilities at veterans hospitals. They were needed and it is something veterans groups have worked for. Good for Bush!!!
Of course, the fact that suicide prevention capabilities were desperately needed at verterans hospitals is tragic.
Anybody notice that Republican hacks are truly UGLY people? Not just figuratively either - I mean they are fugly. They remind me of the bug guy in Men in Black - just barely able to keep the droopy mask over the roiling violent mess inside.
i saw about 3 homeless guys this morning, they must be the last three...
"Lie from the Fox news studio on planet Zeenon, it's the GWB feel-good show, brought to you by John (I'm rich, so everything must be great) Gibbons."
What we're seeing here is the effect the writers strike is having on the entertainment industry. Faux News is now relying on monkeys to churn out reports.
I find it admirable that Gibson subjected himself to waterboarding with Kool-Aid. It appears to be even more effective to drown in it rather than just drinking it.
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