COMMENT 325817
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2012-09-29 10:36 AM |
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New Beginnings puts flyers on scruffy RV's advertising their services to come and stay in Santa Barbara, also growing the "need" for their services too and further tax dollar handouts from the city. The police should be putting entirely different notices on these RV window shields, but New Beginnings got the city to tell the cops to lay off their operation. This is what your tax dollars are buying in this town, folks - a short sale to any vagrant who wants to come here to set up camp.
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COMMENT 325766
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2012-09-29 09:10 AM |
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Casa Esperanza is not about helping the homeless. That's what Salvation Army and Rescue Mission do. Casa Esperanza is about warehousing the homeless. The more 'need' they can demonstrate, the more funding they get. So their job is to generate need. That means offloading jail release inmates to the shelter. That means advertising for 'clients' to come here. It's a scam. Homeless Inc in action. Don't have enough clients? Import!
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ROGER DODGER
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2012-09-28 09:38 PM |
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I expected it wouldn't be like it is..And I remember all who spoke aganist it even the local homeless community spoke aganist it..But it wasn't about us it wasn't our decision to have it opened. The plan in the beginning was slipped by the residents and neighborhood business owners..The building had already been leased for a hundred years..The powers that were at that time said something about putting it in this neighborhood with as few residences as possible..Industrial area..Sad thing about it if we would have had a choice in the decision making about it I would have been all for it..I was all for it until I saw what a con it was...That is what our world has become.
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COMMENT 325558
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2012-09-28 05:01 PM |
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What did you expect? Do you think the City that created this monsterous blight and cronic problem to the entire area would admit to all the things wrong with it. The City was warned before they even opened the converted building, which has become a refuge for bums and substance abusers. Numerous people spoke out against it when it was being proposed including the other two organized and structured shelters, the Rescue Mission and the Salvation Army. Both had many beds available and they pointed out the City's claim bed space was needed was inaccurate. This type of "walk-in" or "drop-in" unstructured enabling facility is the WORST kind of operation possible!
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ROGER DODGER
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2012-09-28 01:21 PM |
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They will care when they step out of their home step in a big pile of dookie slip and fall into it ending up sick as a dog, or when their kid picks it up and rubs it all over their face..No they will blame me for letting them know what it is..
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COMMENT 325374
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2012-09-28 12:38 PM |
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In other news, the fox has determined that: A) He did not eat the chickens last night.
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B) That the hen house has perfect security. Looks like another win for Homeless Inc in SB.
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COMMENT 325817
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2012-09-28 08:20 AM |
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Keep the pressure up, Milpas Association. Sorry you have to work so hard to protect your neighborhood because those progressives deeply embedded in city hall refuse to do what they are paid to do -- protect all of us and not just their special feel good projects they have kept out of their own neighborhoods.
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COMMENT 325177
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2012-09-28 08:07 AM |
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@ 175- Santa Barbara has an entire social services program for the mentally ill clients- Housing for the Mentally Ill is just one of the City subsidized programs... How many City's of only 90,000 or our relatively small County have all the social service providers that we do...? I would venture to guess that our local taxpayers fund more than any other City or County in the U.S. with regard to Social welfare.
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COMMENT 325175P
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2012-09-28 08:00 AM |
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I don't think anyone can explain away or justfiy the expectation of mentally ill people "taking responsiblity" for themselves. There's a "humane society" for animals; what about humans? There but for the grace of God goes anyone (and someone's child). Heartbreaking.
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COMMENT 325766
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2012-09-27 08:08 PM |
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Roger, that is one of the most horrible things Casa Esperanza has done. The sad thing is...there are many more. How do people feel about 50+ jail felons being released into the Milpas neighborhood, from OTHER jurisdictions, every year? The city thinks that's fine. People, write to your city council. Don't stand for this. Think they stay on Milpas only? Think again! And why is it only this shelter gets a complaint? The others don't cause problems, that's why. Check out Casa's finances - they're making a lot of money over there, but not much is getting to the homeless. The city is so blind to what's happening under its nose. Ask the police and firemen - they'll tell the deal. Ask Roger - he sees it. We're not taking care of our own homeless, people. We're taking care of everyone else's problem. And we're doing a lousy job.
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SHAKEY
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2012-09-27 06:20 PM |
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Hey Mike, I agree with you that woman should have taken better care of herself you guys didn't kill her just because you rolled her out the door in the winter time. It was the winter elemments that killed her. Roger is entitled to his opinion just because all of you agree doesn't mean he has to. Roger is not part of any organzation its ok if he disagrees with the king free country ya know.
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ROGER DODGER
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2012-09-27 05:43 PM |
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Actually they took responsblity for her life by taking her in and agreeing to take care of her..An 85 year old woman in a wheel chair who couldn't even clean her own pee bag they agreed to cleaning her up but decided it was just too gross for their clean little hands. They had no problem taking her money though none whatsoever.. Guilt? People with no concious have no guilt I'm not doing that I'm voicing my opinion which I have every right to do as a FREE AMERICAN. My father fought for that right..I know it falls on dead ears all those people care about is sucking money out of physically ill and emotionally ill people then shoving them into the street and blamming everyone else for there deaths..
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COMMENT 325177
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2012-09-27 05:22 PM |
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Hey Roger, People die. Street people with long medical history's and health issues die just as the peeps in Moneycito. NO one is responsible for that womans death- Perhaps she should have taken more personal responsibility for her own situation, but I can guarantee you that our local social services was available to her- From housing opportunities, medical care,counciling or whatever
is out there. Please don't lay any guilt trip on us, the peeps of Santa Barbara, a town of 90,000 for not taking good enough care for the "homeless..." as it falls on dead ears.
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ROGER DODGER
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2012-09-27 05:08 PM |
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People can disagree all they want I don't really care..I will always remember that old lady stroking out. No one was around to help that old lady then just because everyone is scratching each others back now makes what happened back then all right. Thats is nothing but politics anyway a bunch of manure I have nothing to do with..Have your little victory parties on the backs of the dead and forgotton. I'm not part of that scene.
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COMMENT 325011
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2012-09-27 05:06 PM |
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984 for the win
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COMMENT 324984
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2012-09-27 04:01 PM |
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40 oz King Cobra: $2.59
40 oz Colt 45: $2.59
Checking "In Compliance" on a conditional-use permit: $5,000 200 homeless vagrants choking the life out of the Milpas Corridor: PRICELESS
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COMMENT 324924
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2012-09-27 03:02 PM |
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I feel Sharon Byrne might disagree. See many of those "community patrols" around your area, Roger?
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COMMENT 324913
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2012-09-27 02:55 PM |
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The sticky palm gets the grease...
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ROGER DODGER
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2012-09-27 02:36 PM |
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It's too bad they were not a few years ago that old gal in the wheel chair might have lived alittle longer.
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