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Old 09-03-2010, 07:50 AM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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As groups run out of money for funding they turn to DC for bailouts.
Who decides what's important, what's not and who gets how much money ?

Can the US government really afford to continually bail out various groups as funding dries up due to lowered revenues ?

The author of the bill has 235 co-sponsors in the House and 14 in the Senate.

I, for one, am tired of the bailouts. America is changing; it's contracting and we need to acknowledge it and adjust our lives to it and that includes giving up the fantasy that we will return to the good times of 2005 when the money was rolling in.

Broke youth anti-crime groups want federal cash - MontereyHerald.com : (http://www.montereyherald.com/national/ci_15982332 - broken link)

"A $1.6 billion congressional bailout of sorts could help financially flailing groups that fight to keep young people out of trouble, yet lawmakers are reluctant to take up the expensive proposal amid a sour economy and other, more pressing issues."
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Old 09-03-2010, 07:52 AM
 
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good grief
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Old 09-03-2010, 07:57 AM
 
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b-b-but crime will skyrocket if you don't bail us out-anonymous social worker
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Old 09-03-2010, 08:02 AM
 
Location: bold new city of the south
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Default Gang rehabilitation non-profits seek $1.6 billion bailout

Boy, when they say 'non-profit', they are serious.
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Old 09-03-2010, 08:06 AM
 
Location: Here
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The Youth Promise Act would dole out money to organizations like Homeboy Industries, a gang rehabilitation center founded in 2001 under the motto "Nothing stops a bullet like a job." The group's founder Father Greg Boyle recently had to lay off more than 300 of his 427 workers, most of them former gang members, when expected revenues plummeted.
I don't even know where to begin with this story.
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Old 09-03-2010, 08:15 AM
 
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I, for one, am tired of the bailouts. America is changing; it's contracting and we need to acknowledge it and adjust our lives to it and that includes giving up the fantasy that we will return to the good times of 2005 when the money was rolling in.
Me too on the bailouts, but we could bailout the whole of the US of A. The money can be rolling in again but it will take a diametric change in national policies. Also we need to get back to making stuff here as well as some other changes. But we can change things if we want too.
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