Posted on May 26, 2007 at 4:53 p.m.

Putting up barriers to the Freedom of Information Act is freedom denied.

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Posted on May 23, 2007 at 8:45 p.m.

Now let's see. Dallas is the number 1 city in all of America for crime. Solution...Outlaw shopping carts, outlaw panhandling, put signs up saying, "Lock, Take & Hide. I feel safer, don't you?

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Posted on January 31, 2007 at 1:44 p.m.

It's time to be real about homelessness and poverty in our Nation. As Senator and Presidential candidate John Edwards said at a conferance here in Dallas last year, "Poverty is a National shame." I will go one step further, "Homelessness is a National sin." Facing a affordable housing shortage in America, now standing at 4.4 million units, and Texas ranking almost dead last in expenditures addressing every social issue, 2005 Texas Rankings Office of the Texas Comptroller

State Government Taxes & Spending
49th Tax Revenue Raised 2nd Birth Rate 49th Total Expenditures
2nd Teen Birth Rate Per Capita Spending on
37th Prenatal Care 45th Public Health 49th Mental Health 1st Toxic & Cancerous Emissions 49th Water Quality 1st Clean Water Permit Violations 50th High School Graduations rates 9th Unemployment 48th SAT Scores
46th Average Hourly rate 43rd Income Distribution 1st Child Population Growth 50th Government Employee Wage 1st % of Uninsured Children 48th Spending on Child Protection 1st. Number of Executions 1st Number of Gun Shows 50th - % of Population with Health Ins.
2nd Rate of Incarceration 50th - % of Insured low-income children
5th Total Crime 48th - % of Poor covered by Medicaid
11th Violent Crime 45th - Rate of Substance Abuse Treatment 1st Machine Guns Registered Health & Welfare 7th Poverty Rate 2nd - % of Population goes hungry 3rd - % of Population malnourished

,are we not really just putting the blame on the less fortunate to aviod looking at ourselves and the State of our Nation. May 20, 2004 U.S. House of Representatives – House Financial Services Committee Washington D.C. Newly appointed Secretary of HUD, Alfonso Jackson testifies “I don’t talk about housing for the poor because, being poor is just a state of mind, not a condition.” Shock and disbelief swept through the chamber as Mr. Jackson finished his comment. Representative Barbara Lee from California tried to get Mr. Jackson to clarify and possibly change what he had just said, but Mr. Jackson only reiterated his comment. “I defy the Secretary to tell all those people looking for jobs in this horrible economy: all those who spend night after night in the cold: and all those working poor and their families who must live in transitional shelters because the cost of housing is so high that ‘poor is just a state of mind.’ Representative Frank joined his colleague in denouncing Mr. Jackson obvious belief that the poor economic class in America was solely responsible for their plight. “Given the assault HUD has been waging on programs that help people in need, your cavalier assertion that being poor is simply a state of mind could serve as a dictionary illustration of adding insult to injury to poor people in America.”
“Secretary Jackson, your comments are offensive to millions of unemployed Americans who have been looking for work. There are real economic disparities in this country, and these kinds of comments will do nothing to help us bridge the growing gap between the rich and the poor.” Representative Capuano added. Headlines: Dallas morning News 9/9/04 900 Low-income Dallas residents to lose rent aid Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.1967, “Where do we go from here? Chaos or Community? “The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is as socially cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.” During 1967, 10 million Americans lived in poverty and homelessness virtually did not exist. Today the population of Americans, who live in poverty, outnumbers the entire population of Canada and homelessness affects 3.5 million Americans every year, victims of devastating natural and unnatural disasters, of this population upwards to 1,200,000 will be children, 650,000 will be disabled, 500,000 will be families and 300,000 will be veterans. 744,000 individuals, according to the National Alliance to End Homelessness are homeless in America on any given night. 150,000 Americans this year; women, children, men, elderly, disabled, veterans, Our homeless and poor are being offered up as the sacrificial lambs to appease class-ism. Yes, our nation is in the middle of a class war. To remind everyone about history, only 3 classes survive in such a climate, the poor, the miniority wealthy and the Elite rulers. No middle class. "If we can't save the many who are poor, how can we save the few who are rich. John F. Kennedy

James K Waghorne - President Dallas Homeless Neighborhood Association

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