DCist: Morning Roundup: High Anxiety Edition

downtown rez

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:33:23 -0500

A hundred and fifty? Not even close. 40, tops.

erahk0

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:48:27 -0500

forget the bail-out as planned, the gov't can save the taxpayers ~80% of the >7 billion$ their talking about wasting if they would just simply cover all of the bad mortgages (less than 300k) and walk away from Fannie-Freddie & Wall Street. If they do go for their bailout plan then i do think they should include affordable housing for the poor ...lehman, aig, chrysler, fannie and fredie executives.

HCE

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:15:18 -0500

So no kicking out people who bought mansions they can't afford? Anyone who has more than a $200,000 mortgage is rich in my book. They can lose the house they can't afford and rent like I do.

monkeyrotica

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:30:09 -0500

There's a "one-armed bandit" joke there somewhere.

Reid

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:20:06 -0500

"Majority of Marylanders support slots" For a split second I thought that said something else entirely different.

monkeyrotica

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:49:49 -0500

Good luck finding licensed and bonded Morlock repairmen in DC. Thanks to your DC Public School system, they're all functionally illiterate. Not only that, but the Morlocks that actually want to work in DC have to jump through tons of red tape to even get their permits. Doesn't help that they can only come out at night because of that whole albinoism thing, and the permitting office closes at 4pm. Your tax dollars at work.

erahk0

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:43:20 -0500

i third Cranky's motion on the condition that we assign the Morlocks to fixing the metro escalators

OldPosterKnownAsCranky

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:33:39 -0500

Homeless get a job, boilers get fixed, sewers get built, Morlocks get fed. It's an all-around win-win situation!

monkeyrotica

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:51:35 -0500

I second Cranky's motion to use the homeless as CHUD bait. Can we put their boiler inspector licenses on the fast track?

OldPosterKnownAsCranky

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:44:37 -0500

What if we get the homeless to inspect the boilers and build the sewers? Think out side the box, people!

monkeyrotica

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:41:39 -0500

Hillman - The career panhandlers don't live in shelters anyway, so moving the shelter to Ward 8 won't really have much impact on panhandling on K Street. Besides, with winter rolling in to DC, a lot of panhandlers will migrate to Florida and SoCal where they can ply their trade in relative comfort. It's like the decline in murders when summer ends. Once November rolls in, it just gets too cold and wet to panhandle or start turf wars in DC.

Politburo

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:31:34 -0500

4 weekly passes = a monthly pass

Hillman

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:30:39 -0500

Monkey - Making it harder for them to panhandle is part of the solution. The easy ability to make enough panhandling $$ to indefinitely put off actually getting substance abuse treatment, mental health care, job training (or an actual job) is one of the reasons we have the homelessness problems that we have.

ustreetgirl

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:24:14 -0500

Man, I still wish the metro had monthly passes.

monkeyrotica

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:18:57 -0500

Federally mandated sewage plan lacks federal funding Since when have the Feds ever paid for something they've mandated? It isn't their job to come up with funding. It's their job to tell you what to do. You're supposed to pay for it, dumbass. Besides, it's for your own good. Like sneeze guards and those "Employees Must Wash Hands" signs written in Spanish and braille. To be fair, the Feds do guarantee that if you're not satisfied with the Federally mandated sewage plan, you get double your sewage back. Qualified residents of the Jewish/Muslim faith are eligible for a kosher/halal "sewage credit." (Allow 8-10 weeks for delivery.)

IMGoph

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:13:01 -0500

does it seem like there's no real news today? like these are all stories we've been hearing about for so long that they've become something of a constant background noise?

Moose

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:12:28 -0500

The Council can demand all they want, but unless they stuck teeth in the bill (i.e., "none of the funds available for X may be obligated until...") then it's a meaningless gesture. What's the consequence if he doesn't comply, they get mad at him? Whoopee.

monkeyrotica

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:10:06 -0500

Maybe now I can sit on a bench without smelling BO, urine, and human feces. I got news for you, jack. That wasn't the homeless. It was the staff from the Cato Institute. Those libertarians love themselves some red meat and asparagus. Whew!

Mediocre Fred

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:08:18 -0500

I had no idea that the Franklin School Shelter has been put in charge of the bail out.

dc4life

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:03:54 -0500

I'm glad they're closing down that shelter. All it did was create havoc in the park across from it. Maybe now I can sit on a bench without smelling BO, urine, and human feces.

monkeyrotica

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:03:14 -0500

Two problems with closing the Franklin School. (1) Scooping up homeless people with mental health problems and substance abuse issues and dropping them in neighborhoods across the river, where there are NO support services, fixes NOTHING. You're just marginalizing the problem and making it harder for them to panhandle. (2) Warehousing homeless people in nigh-rent neighborhoods makes even less sense. I have to wonder how many of the residents around Franklin School actually supported the protest. It's a lesser of multiple-evils choice.

ShawnDC

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:00:09 -0500

I walk by the Franklin Shelter on my way to work in the morning. Today they were moving beds and whatnot out of it, so it appeared that they were closing it down, confirmation or not.