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2022-09-18 -Great Cultural Revolution
Denver allocates $2MILLION in taxpayer funds to provide 140 homeless people with $12,000 in no-strings-attached cash - as a last-ditch effort to lift them out of destitution, combat soaring crime rates and clean up squalid encampments
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] At least they’re taking a scientific approach to wasting taxpayer money.
  • Denver has allocated $2million from the American Rescue Plan Act to fund the program, which will be run by the Denver Basic Income Project

  • The program, which in total will cost around $9million, is seeking to help around 820 people, but the $2million provided by the city will fund around 140 people

  • The program will be divided into three groups with 260 receiving $6,500 upfront then $500 a month for 12 months

  • Another 260 will get $1,000 a month for 12 months and 300 will get $50 stipends to complete surveys to help see how the program is working

  • The participants will be chosen at random but will largely derive from women, transgender, and non-binary individuals
Posted by Skidmark 2022-09-18 00:15|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 Ok. So does Barb still have the popcorn concession?

We're going to need a truckload!
Posted by CrazyFool 2022-09-18 02:19||   2022-09-18 02:19|| Front Page Top

#2 MD 20/20 stocks sold out
Posted by Frank G 2022-09-18 06:10||   2022-09-18 06:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Will be interesting to see how many of these lucky recipients and their friends overdose.
Posted by Airandee 2022-09-18 06:16||   2022-09-18 06:16|| Front Page Top

#4  THE GRATEFUL POODLE
One day a benevolent physician (who had read the books) having found a stray poodle suffering from a broken leg, conveyed the poor creature to his home, and after setting and bandaging the injured limb gave the little outcast its liberty again, and thought no more about the matter. But how great was his surprise, upon opening his door one morning, some days later, to find the grateful poodle patiently waiting there, and in its company another stray dog, one of whose legs, by some accident, had been broken. The kind physician at once relieved the distressed animal, nor did he forget to admire the inscrutable goodness and mercy of God, who had been willing to use so humble an instrument as the poor outcast poodle for the inculcating of, etc., etc., etc.
SEQUEL
The next morning the benevolent physician found the two dogs, beaming with gratitude, waiting at his door, and with them two other dogs-cripples. The cripples were speedily healed, and the four went their way, leaving the benevolent physician more overcome by pious wonder than ever. The day passed, the morning came. There at the door sat now the four reconstructed dogs, and with them four others requiring reconstruction. This day also passed, and another morning came; and now sixteen dogs, eight of them newly crippled, occupied the sidewalk, and the people were going around. By noon the broken legs were all set, but the pious wonder in the good physician's breast was beginning to get mixed with involuntary profanity. The sun rose once more, and exhibited thirty-two dogs, sixteen of them with broken legs, occupying the sidewalk and half of the street; the human spectators took up the rest of the room. The cries of the wounded, the songs of the healed brutes, and the comments of the onlooking citizens made great and inspiring cheer, but traffic was interrupted in that street. The good physician hired a couple of assistant surgeons and got through his benevolent work before dark, first taking the precaution to cancel his church membership, so that he might express himself with the latitude which the case required.
But some things have their limits. When once more the morning dawned, and the good physician looked out upon a massed and far-reaching multitude of clamorous and beseeching dogs, he said, “I might as well acknowledge it, I have been fooled by the books; they only tell the pretty part of the story, and then stop. Fetch me the shotgun; this thing has gone along far enough.”
He issued forth with his weapon, and chanced to step upon the tail of the original poodle, who promptly bit him in the leg. Now the great and good work which this poodle had been engaged in had engendered in him such a mighty and augmenting enthusiasm as to turn his weak head at last and drive him mad. A month later, when the benevolent physician lay in the death-throes of hydrophobia, he called his weeping friends about him, and said:—
“Beware of the books. They tell but half of the story. Whenever a poor wretch asks you for help, and you feel a doubt as to what result may flow from your benevolence, give yourself the benefit of the doubt and kill the applicant.”
And so saying he turned his face to the wall and gave up the ghost.

MarkTwain
Posted by Vinegar Spolusing6485 2022-09-18 06:40||   2022-09-18 06:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Good morning. Now that was a good read. When I stumble upon such things I call them a keeper.
Posted by Dale 2022-09-18 06:57||   2022-09-18 06:57|| Front Page Top

#6 You can't help those who are unwilling to help themselves.

This is what happens when our judiciary willingly listen to the siren song of the ACLU that got them to buy vagrancy as a First Amendment right. Another 'gift' from your judiciary. [of course if you live in Martha's Vineyard...]
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-09-18 07:05||   2022-09-18 07:05|| Front Page Top

#7 I will believe the "last-ditch" part... never.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-09-18 07:09||   2022-09-18 07:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Ref #6: Yes, we've been 'Martha's Vinyarded.' I can think of no more fitting metaphor for our current political and social reality.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-09-18 07:15||   2022-09-18 07:15|| Front Page Top

#9 Martha's Vineyard proves deporting all illegals works...
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-09-18 07:45||   2022-09-18 07:45|| Front Page Top

#10 So is this a behind the scenes handout to the area drug dealers?
Posted by Mullah Richard 2022-09-18 08:17||   2022-09-18 08:17|| Front Page Top

#11 Denver officials should be charged with premeditated murder when the recipients drop like flies from overdoses or are brutally robbed.
Posted by Snash Shairt9621 2022-09-18 10:03||   2022-09-18 10:03|| Front Page Top

#12 ^ They are going to solve their problems one way or another. Cleaning up a nasty mess will by default be a nasty process.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-09-18 10:06||   2022-09-18 10:06|| Front Page Top

#13 Denver looks to be sexist and racist: how many straight, white losers will be getting the cash?
Posted by USN, Ret. 2022-09-18 11:09||   2022-09-18 11:09|| Front Page Top

#14 how many straight, white losers will be getting the cash?

They all go to Vail and Telluride.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-09-18 11:10||   2022-09-18 11:10|| Front Page Top

#15 They're not homeless because they don't have $12,000. They're homeless because they're mentally ill and the ACLU had all the state hospitals shut down. Or, they're just druggies who prefer drugs to the good feelings that living a good life brings.
Posted by Sonny de Medici5342 2022-09-18 11:37||   2022-09-18 11:37|| Front Page Top

#16 

A 1 way Denver to DC or Chicago ticket $75.
$50 for travel day meals.

On arrival, a one time $250 pre-paid and a trackable debt card with a Food and medical use only.

Total high estimate cost $400 x 140 = $56,000.00
plus a 25% Gov. Admin fee $14,000.00 = $70,000.00

Saving the taxpayers $1,930,000.00
If applied to all 820 people mentioned
820 x $400 = $328,000.00

Or taxpayer savings of $8,672,000.00
while allow politicians to still skim or steer 25% toward their donors.
Posted by NN2N1 2022-09-18 11:39||   2022-09-18 11:39|| Front Page Top

#17 This is what "managed decline" looks like.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-09-18 12:04||   2022-09-18 12:04|| Front Page Top

#18 The various safety nets being used here only encourages homelessness. China sounded the alarm a few weeks ago. Young people don't want to work. Minimalism is the word used.Years sitting in a classroom. Then college. Then internet and gaming. Cell phones. All sitting. Out of shape as we see in our military enlistees. In China with no safety net much harder to work minimalism. You just work enough to get the money you need then stop. Here with our safety nets the lifestyle is achievable. No to marriage, working regularly, purchasing a home or renting, having children, owning a car.They have tuned out and this is happening around the world. Stimulus checks went to drugs.
Posted by Dale 2022-09-18 13:09||   2022-09-18 13:09|| Front Page Top

#19 Will this be taxed?
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-09-18 14:30||   2022-09-18 14:30|| Front Page Top

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