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Joanne98 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 09:11 AM Original message |
Eight Homeless Youth Die in New Orleans Fire -" What Does It Say About US? |
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japple (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 09:19 AM Response to Original message |
1. I have no words to describe how heartbreaking this is. We are |
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niyad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 10:32 AM Response to Reply #1 |
11. actually, this pretty much seems to be a christian nation, at least as christianity is defined by |
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molly77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-10 08:48 AM Response to Reply #1 |
16. japple |
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democrank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 09:31 AM Response to Original message |
2. We should be ashamed. |
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fasttense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 09:31 AM Response to Original message |
3. Hoovervilles and Hobos |
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Myrina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 09:36 AM Response to Original message |
4. They weren't "youth" - they were between 20 and 30 and ... |
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fasttense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 09:50 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. People between the ages of 12 and 24, according to a June 2010 report |
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mudplanet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 02:25 PM Response to Reply #4 |
14. Do you really think that New Orleans has |
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dorkulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 09:40 AM Response to Original message |
5. I knew a lot of "gutterpunks" in N.O., most of them were homeless by choice. |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 09:48 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. I ask you this. Why would a kid choose to be homeless rather than live in a nice |
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dorkulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-10 08:40 AM Response to Reply #7 |
15. It may be hard for you to believe but there are some young people |
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Behind the Aegis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-10 08:52 AM Response to Reply #5 |
17. Well stated. |
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Butch350 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-10 12:56 PM Response to Reply #5 |
20. Take em all out... |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 09:41 AM Response to Original message |
6. We are accepting this as the norm. |
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Aleric (278 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 09:53 AM Response to Original message |
9. But it's all OK because Michael Vick got a second chance |
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niyad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 10:31 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. and the same kind of mentality that excuses vick seems to operate about the homeless and poverty- |
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Aleric (278 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 10:40 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Oh, how far we've come |
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molly77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-10 08:53 AM Response to Reply #9 |
18. How could Obama turn from the most brilliant campaigner in my |
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Aleric (278 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-10 10:23 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. You are absolutely right. n/t |
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Citizen Worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 12:51 PM Response to Original message |
13. Where is the moral outrage of the political class? Our collective response is silence to the ever |
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