Maxine Waters to homeless: "Go Home"
You probably read the title and thought that was the worst of it.
Here's the video of Maxine Waters telling a group of homeless people to "go home" to which somebody replies "we ain't got no home." pic.twitter.com/wHMHkBlvtt
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 31, 2022
Nope. It gets worse.
A misleading social media post caused hundreds to turn out for a chance at section 8 housing.
But then an unofficial social media post erroneously promised that those who showed up would get rare vouchers for permanent, subsidized housing. And Fathers and Mothers Who Care was swamped. Homeless people lined up on a corner in West Athens before daybreak on Friday and Tuesday only to have their hopes dashed.At the Friday event, heated arguments broke out among the hundreds of people who turned out for assistance, more evidence of the brutal Los Angeles housing market and the desperation felt by the tens of thousands of Angelenos who are unable to secure permanent places to lay their heads.
The crowd overwhelmed Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority workers, who were unable to meet more than a small fraction of the need and left while throngs of people were still waiting for help.
Enter Representative Waters.
At one point, Waters told the crowd: “I want everybody to go home,” triggering an angry response.“We don’t got no home, that’s why we’re here!” one member of the crowd yelled back, according to the LA Times. “What home we gonna go to?”
Waters reportedly responded by laughing and saying: “Nothing is going to happen here today.”
Soon after, Waters appeared to grow frustrated by a question from a local housing advocacy nonprofit.
“Excuse me, there’s nobody in Washington who works for their people any f— harder than I do,” she said. “I don’t want to hear this. No, no, no.”
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When contacted by the LA Times Tuesday, Waters requested the story not be published, saying “it’s a bunch of rumors.”“You’ll hurt yourself and the community trying to put this together without background,” she told Sheets, according to the report. “I don’t want you to start trying to write it, you won’t understand it.”
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Best exemplar of the futility of
Blue No Matter Who I have seen lately.
Hypocrite witch...great fighter for the poor...
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Maxine Waters OpenSecrets
thanks this made me LOL
I was trying to get "hypocrite witch" to rhyme with "rich bitch" but couldn't find another syllable. Oh well, millionaires are a dime a dozen in California, the whole place stinks of decrepit plutocrats.
OpenSecrets, Maxine '22
32 years! She is 83 years old. "Her people" must like her. Here they be:
LOL! WTF? No wonder nothing ever happens there today. Her Top 5 Industries:
Duopoly sucks, there is no choice.
Hi eyo
How about 'happy rich bitch'?
Yes, that works. HAPPY
ha ha! it works for me, she does seem happy doesn't she? Alright, okay.
Even if her smile
is plastered or concreted on ; )
Wine Cave Section 8
Thanks for writing about this crazy news gjohnsit, it went viral pretty darn quick. She is so typical!
(off topic) I wonder why they call federal housing vouchers the same as a mental military discharge. Whenever I hear Section 8 I always think of Jamie Farr, because the boob tube was worse than earworms for burying useless trivia inside my lint trap.
Anyway, here in Sonoma County I have qualified for a Section 8 Housing Voucher for 20 years but never bothered to even try to get on "the list". Thank gawd! A few years ago the county finally confessed there were 30,000 people on it, and they only get 500 vouchers per year. So they threw away the list and created a lottery! I am not kidding, if I had been inching up that list for 15 years and suddenly BOOM I was in a fucking annual gambling pool for rental assistance, my behavioral health would have gone AWOL. Gambling is not healthy behavior, in my view. We have new casinos and still not enough housing. Strong Towns? No. Addiction Industries? Yes! Profit.
The "lucky" people who get vouchers still have to find themselves a rental, with a landlord that will take Section 8. Yet another "list" to track while trying to survive on the streets, along the creeks, in the riverbeds, under the highways, in the forests. Keep moving along. "That's the system", Democrats built that. It is a terrible trap, I want to escape it but cannot. Yet. Soon, maybe. I don't know. Probably not.
A voucher is just a fucking piece of paper, after all. No dwellings are attached to it, all it does is cap rent to 40% of monthly income. Majority of landlords don't accept it.
I want to say that's insane, but no it's just me. Thanks.
Hi eyo
"A voucher is just a fucking piece of paper, after all. No dwellings are attached to it, all it does is cap rent to 40% of monthly income. Majority of landlords don't accept it"
It used to be common and possible for many to reserve 25% of their monthly income for housing, and still eat and survive well. Instead, now many are "on the streets, along the creeks, in the riverbeds, under the highways, in the forests.”
I hope things stay steady for you.
I've been on section 8 rent subsidy 13 years
I'm very thankful for it, otherwise I couldn't afford to live where am,and I know a lot of apartment buildings , this one included, that would be damn near empty if section 8 didn't exist.
I know people who have moved to other States that had no problem finding an apartment that accepted it and what kind of landlord would not like having the rent payments guaranteed ?
No stories about someone losing their job,a sudden financial problem because they are owed money by a friend, the baby has been sick costing their rent money or someone promises to pay if/when a certain windfall is expected to happen some day.
The property managers like guaranteed payments, what's there to complain about?