First Military Industrial Complex...now Poverty Industrial Complex

[OneGrassRoot]

Of course, the Prison Industrial Complex is part of this sickening scenario as well.

Poverty is Big Business.

:puke:

Why, residents want to know, must they have to deal with such mega-shelters when studies show smaller ones work better?

Because the CEOs of Homelessness Inc. get paid by the body. The more derelicts, vagrants and addicts they can round up, the more they get paid by the Department of Homeless Services. DHS spends $98.50 a day — $3,000 a month — per single adult in shelters. For families, that figure is even higher. So in 2009, the Bowery Residents Committee, the “nonprofit” behind the Chelsea shelter, took in more than $24 million in government contracts, not counting $6 million in Medicaid checks, $6 million in “program service fees” and $1.5 million in “other grants.”

Showing how to leverage poverty to advantage, BRC boss Muzzy Rosenblatt pocketed a salary of $282,000 in 2009. He is best known as the landlord who doubled the rent on the Bowery’s most famous resident, the dearly departed CBGB. Then, when the punk club couldn’t pay $40,000 a month, Rosenblatt chucked it out on the street, thus increasing the population of homeless underground clubs by one.

Both The Bronx and Chelsea will probably lose their battle with Big Homelessness — a well-funded and politically wired machine built to bulldoze over locals while murmuring about “compassion.” The people must be forced to accept neighborhood-bruising “help” from “services” — whether they want them or not.


FULL ARTICLE HERE: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/homeless_inc_6hcPCibAyfhsBu3Scrb0nI/1

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[Union Thug]

1. It's all about class war now just as it has been for generations...n/t