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A Progressive's War On The Homeless... - 3/19/2012 3:12:14 PM

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http://times247.com/articles/mayor-bloomberg-blocks-food-donations

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The Bloomberg administration is now taking the term “food police” to new depths, blocking food donations to all government-run facilities that serve the city’s homeless.

In conjunction with a mayoral task force and the Health Department, the Department of Homeless Services recently started enforcing new nutritional rules for food served at city shelters.

Since DHS can’t assess the nutritional content of donated food, shelters have to turn away good Samaritans.

It really baffles me why anyone would want to live in NYC, or San Francisco... All the local government want's to do is control every aspect of your lives.

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Bloomberg's War On The Homeless... - 3/19/2012 3:13:52 PM

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What on earth makes you think Bloomberg is a progressive?

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RE: Bloomberg's War On The Homeless... - 3/19/2012 3:14:20 PM

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What on earth makes you think Bloomberg is a progressive?

What makes you think he's not?

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RE: Bloomberg's War On The Homeless... - 3/19/2012 3:35:58 PM

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What on earth makes you think Bloomberg is a progressive?

What makes you think he's not?

He's a Republican. Kinda disqualifies himself from the "Progressive" camp, neh?

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RE: Bloomberg's War On The Homeless... - 3/19/2012 3:50:31 PM

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He's not a Republican anymore.He switched to being an "Independent".Even as a "Republican",he was still considered a Moderate.Of course,being Mayor of NYC which overwhelming votes for Demcrats,he has to bend a little to the middle.

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RE: Bloomberg's War On The Homeless... - 3/19/2012 4:38:59 PM

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What on earth makes you think Bloomberg is a progressive?

What makes you think he's not?

He's a Republican. Kinda disqualifies himself from the "Progressive" camp, neh?

His own website names him as a Independent, his actions as Mayor name him as a progressive.

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RE: Bloomberg's War On The Homeless... - 3/19/2012 4:46:26 PM

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There are Republican progressives. They don't get very far, nationally but it happens.

By the same token, you get the occasional democrat that isn't very progressive. George Wallace standing on the school steps, barring black children from entering? It happens on both sides of the fence.

In NYC, particularly, the populace is sooooo Democratic that no one that's considered a "true Republican" would ever win election there. It's one of the reasons why people cast an eye toward NYC mayors for presidential runs.

By contrast, Mayor Koch won two elections while appearing on three (or four) tickets and two of them were "Republican" and "Democrat".

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RE: A Progressive's War On The Homeless... - 3/19/2012 4:55:31 PM

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In conjunction with a mayoral task force and the Health Department, the Department of Homeless Services recently started enforcing new nutritional rules for food served at city shelters.

Any program that gets government dollars has to start enforcing these new codes.

It is going to cause us to raise meal prices 50 cents next year. We have had 10 cents in increases in 10 years.

I think that Mrs. Obama, rather than helping those in need, has shot them in the foot. Or the gut.

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RE: Bloomberg's War On The Homeless... - 3/19/2012 4:56:35 PM

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ORIGINAL: subrob1967

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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam

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ORIGINAL: subrob1967

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

What on earth makes you think Bloomberg is a progressive?

What makes you think he's not?

He's a Republican. Kinda disqualifies himself from the "Progressive" camp, neh?

His own website names him as a Independent, his actions as Mayor name him as a progressive.

You're not from New York, are you? The guy's just SLIGHTLY to the left of Adolph Hitler....

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RE: A Progressive's War On The Homeless... - 3/19/2012 5:02:24 PM

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I think that Mrs. Obama, rather than helping those in need, has shot them in the foot. Or the gut.

How does Mrs. Obama fit into this?

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RE: A Progressive's War On The Homeless... - 3/19/2012 5:03:54 PM

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I think that Mrs. Obama, rather than helping those in need, has shot them in the foot. Or the gut.

How does Mrs. Obama fit into this?

Well, the first lady has made nutrition one of her main issues. You know how Nancy Reagan had "Just Say No"?

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RE: A Progressive's War On The Homeless... - 3/19/2012 5:19:35 PM

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"It really baffles me why anyone would want to live in NYC, or San Francisco... All the local government want's to do is control every aspect of your lives."

I`ll bet it does.....

For some reason tho,people flock to those places.......

I`m sure they`ll do just fine without you........not to worry.

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RE: A Progressive's War On The Homeless... - 3/19/2012 5:25:54 PM

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Well, the first lady has made nutrition one of her main issues. You know how Nancy Reagan had "Just Say No"?

I know, but it still seems a bit of a stretch to be fingering her for decisions by the New York City bureaucracy.

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RE: A Progressive's War On The Homeless... - 3/19/2012 5:27:08 PM

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http://www.letsmove.gov/

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I think that Mrs. Obama, rather than helping those in need, has shot them in the foot. Or the gut.

How does Mrs. Obama fit into this?

She has made it her mission to get better nutrition standards. She got what she set out to get.letsmove

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RE: A Progressive's War On The Homeless... - 3/19/2012 5:29:49 PM

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I'd finger her

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RE: A Progressive's War On The Homeless... - 3/19/2012 5:30:19 PM

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Well, the first lady has made nutrition one of her main issues. You know how Nancy Reagan had "Just Say No"?

I know, but it still seems a bit of a stretch to be fingering her for decisions by the New York City bureaucracy.

The NYC folks are doing what the federal folks require them to do.

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RE: A Progressive's War On The Homeless... - 3/19/2012 5:33:27 PM

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The NYC folks are doing what the federal folks require them to do.

Do you have a link/source for that? There's no mention of the feds in the OP, and I wasn't able to open subrob's link.

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RE: A Progressive's War On The Homeless... - 3/19/2012 5:34:10 PM

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Well, the first lady has made nutrition one of her main issues. You know how Nancy Reagan had "Just Say No"?

I know, but it still seems a bit of a stretch to be fingering her for decisions by the New York City bureaucracy.

Well, I understand but out-spoken first ladies can be human starting guns. They say it and people fall all over themselves to get it done. It's amazing that someone that "holds a post" that isn't even a post in the government, wields that much power but, they do.

Of course, not all of them avail themselves of that megaphone but quite a few have. That palin Hillary Clinton comes to mind. Nancy Reagan, Betty Ford (mostly after her hubby was out of office, though), Bess Truman (to a small extent), and Eleanor Roosevelt (off the top of my head. I might have missed or mis-judged some).

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RE: A Progressive's War On The Homeless... - 3/19/2012 5:56:27 PM

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The NYC folks are doing what the federal folks require them to do.

Do you have a link/source for that? There's no mention of the feds in the OP, and I wasn't able to open subrob's link.

Try nutrition.gov. I am too porched to look, been watching and waiting on this for over a year now. I just know what I know due to my job.

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RE: Bloomberg's War On The Homeless... - 3/19/2012 6:48:05 PM

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What on earth makes you think Bloomberg is a progressive?

What makes you think he's not?

Reality.

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