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Govt. Spends $4 Million Dollars to House 12 Homeless People

Sep. 9, 2011 8:44pm Buck Sexton

Government officials in Bethesda, Maryland, have decided to spend $4 million dollars to provide housing for 12 homeless people for one year.

That’s right. The taxpayer will be providing free housing to a dozen folks in Maryland at the rate of $330,000 per person a year.

This should raise some eyebrows, as the median price of a single family home in the U.S. is $172,000.

Judicial Watch reported on this pricey, taxpayer financed arrangement, which will allow Montgomery County Housing Opportunities Commission to operate a three-story apartment building in Bethesda for 12 homeless adults. According to the Washington Examiner, the facility will have six studio and six one-bedroom apartments as well as a gym and computer center.

About $1 million of funding for the project will come from Obama’s stimulus fund. Montgomery County’s new homeless housing project will also receive $944,829 in county housing funds and $2.1 million in state low-income housing tax credits. All so twelve people can live in a very high average income suburb of Washington, D.C.

At least it’s not $535 million of the taxpayer’s hard-earned dollars thrown away on a failing solar company.

(h/t Judicial Watch)

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username112973
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:33pm
Story after story I read here and other alternative media sites is just about coruption, corruption, corruption. We’ve got to stop allowing government officials to hide behind the governmental immunity doctrine and start putting them in jail — in large numbers. I’m sick of it. We definintely need another American revolution to get rid of the corruption and criminals running our country. And let’s start with Obama and the Democratic party and work are way to the Republicans. They all seem to be corrupt. But I know the Tea Party is to blame. Yeah, right!

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- WeeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges
  Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:45pm
  Now, now. Herr Fuhrer Glenn Beck tells us to “forget about the damn birth certificate”. So forget we must. :(
  
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- audiemurphy
  Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:50pm
  that is freaking CRAZY!!!!!!!!!
  4 million to house 12 people !
  What is the world coming to?
  Insanity! waste of
  money ! that’s like using a 10 ton wrecking ball to kill a mosquito!
  I love Americans and what America stands for but I will say :as a a Canadian I see Obama and all the progressives now ruining your country I never thought I would see the day when Canada looked more sane!
  
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- oldoldtimer
  Posted on September 9, 2011 at 10:17pm
  Think this is bad. You should see some of the expensive section 8 housing inTacoma Wa for legal green card immigrants. They also get food stamps and SSA of over 2400 a month.
  
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- asybot12
  Posted on September 10, 2011 at 12:28am
  @Audi feel much the same way I only think the wrecking ball has even a smaller chance
  
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- smokey888x2
  Posted on September 10, 2011 at 1:02am
  Free enterprise is thee most greatest system in the world …. but when it moves over to political enterprise, it ruins it all.
  
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- HKS
  Posted on September 10, 2011 at 6:47am
  Government programs exist for one reason and it’s not to help people or get something done, it’s a slush fund to rape and pillage. All of them are set up for that purpose, in fact the ones they are setting up right now are for someones personal piggy bank. That is why they are constantly setting them up. We could make it a reality game and everyone vote for who is milking this or that program. Make the prize half the savings when we shut it down. Rest assured someone is milking them all.
  
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- chazman
  Posted on September 10, 2011 at 7:13am
  I pay taxes, even though I don’t want to, to keep from going to prison for not paying my taxes. The list of corrupt deeds committed by our politicians is endless. My God the crimes they get away with. Yet we, the American citizen, have to take it up the wazoo, and there is very little we can do about it … for now.
  
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- Caniac Steve
  Posted on September 10, 2011 at 11:24am
  I know many of us here wether you are a firend or foe of beck could find some very good place to spend the 12 million dollars there or elsewhere…but isn’t human nature wonderful…we all get to be a wee hypocritical from time to time knowing we seldom get caught huh ? but for those who don’t like Beck..how about you get on the backs of the likes of Williams,Sawyer & Stephanopolis,Blitzer & etc…to ask them why they don’t bother trying to report this kind of fraud & waste on a regular basis ?
  gee look at what happen to Juan Williams for doing the right thing…hmmm maybe they didn’t have enough cash reserves like he did to survive huh ? …maybe
  
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- banjarmon
  Posted on September 10, 2011 at 12:54pm
  Government officials in Bethesda, Maryland….The commie state…
  
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- waggie
  Posted on September 11, 2011 at 8:57pm
  Why not help them get JOBS instead!
  
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slvrserfr
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:31pm
2012 can’t come soon enough. Liberals helping a few homeless people by giving them a ridiculous entitlement in a liberal state. Give me $330,000 a year and I’ll turn around and make millions. This is just a complete waste of taxpayer dollars and people should be livid that this government has the audacity to spend their tax dollars in such a reckless manner. Vote out these liberal quacks in 2012 and I can almost guarantee that most of your fiscal problems will significantly improve. They’re like a fiscal cancer on this country and we cannot afford another 4 years of these asinine policies.

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- WeeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges
  Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:37pm
  WHY aren’t LOTS OF SOMEONES being FIRED and/or ARRESTED?
  
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- WeeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges
  Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:41pm
  Where is the FBI? Where are the State Police? Where are the local Police? Where are the …
  
  *ring* *ring* “Hello. FBI.”
  “FBI? Why aren’t YOU investigating?”
  *click*
  “Hello? Hello?”
  
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Bologno
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:23pm
Up to par. I wonder if Obama is going to borrow the money from the Chinese! Or, maybe they should take the money from Michelle’s trasvel fund.

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- Captain Crunch
  Posted on September 9, 2011 at 11:32pm
  Obama: “can we borrow more money?”
  China: “No, we are recalling our debt…now!”
  
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Son_of_Liberty
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:21pm
“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.” Thomas Jefferson

3%

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TxMadMac
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:20pm
This is beyond obscene ! How in God’s name can they justify this to the hard working tax payers of America ? This is pure evil misuse of tax payers monies. Obama’s people are everywhere destroying this country financially. Enough dam spending already !!!!!!!!!!!

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- The Divided States of America
  Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:30pm
  Destroying the country was his plan from the beginning !!!
  
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MODEL82A1
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:20pm
May some of you here finally realize that perpetually fueling your outrage by reading endless stories of myriad abuses and actually engage in life to affect the change we all know is needed. The one thing about all the liberal talking heads and politicians that you all know to be so wrong and so stupid is that they are all out there working to become successful, much to your resentful, self righteous, Loser chagrin.

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- MODEL82A1
  Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:24pm
  May you realize that perpetually fueling your outrage in front of a computer is not a constructive use of your time, that is.
  
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- The Divided States of America
  Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:41pm
  Excuse me *****. but your mindset is somewhat delusional, Your sincere wish to clarify the mental breakdown that you are experiencing can be summed up in one word, it’s called obamaism. The future history books will explain how America almost fell to her knees while under the administration of obama’s care. It will also explain how the tea party rose up and knocked him out in the first round, Taking all his liberal cronies and union thugs down with him and moving back to Jakarta to be with his religion of peace family . such a happy ending to such a miserable nightmare , would’nt you say ?
  
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- sissykatz
  Posted on September 9, 2011 at 10:41pm
  Model
  I don’t understand…….. I never get on here that you have not already posted at least twice…….
  Why aren’t you out doing something?????? I belong to two groups and we are writing lettters
  and contacting people, making phone calls, sending emails, and trying to make a difference.
  
  What are you doing to help the situation the country is in?????
  
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- korbin
  Posted on September 9, 2011 at 10:57pm
  Valid point, however where else can you find truthful stories and get to vent without physical harm??? but good observation.
  
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- Simple Skeptic
  Posted on September 12, 2011 at 9:56am
  Divided, I think Model is challenging the group rather than insulting it. Model’s message is to do something about it rather than talk about it. From that standpoint, I think Model is spot on.
  
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MiCurmudgeon
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:18pm
Just think of all the government jobs which will be available to process this ridiculous program.

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- chazman
  Posted on September 10, 2011 at 9:06am
  @SISSY
  
  I just took a break to e-mail NBC, ABC and CBS to let them know that I fully expect to see the Israeli Embassy attack story tonight, being as how I haven’t seen a dam thing about it this morning. And as for you, 82, you have developed a bad attitude. Are you a Patriot or a pric? I can no longer tell …
  
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Rational Man
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:18pm
The church has been helping the homeless for alot less than that for a long time.
And nobody had to get robbed in the process to make it happen!
And the church doesn’t cause people to become homeless, unlike the government…………

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Rayblue
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:16pm
They could buy a hundred thousand of those dumpster homes instead.
Connect ‘em for a double wide.
Park it in the alley behind the White House and live like a king off of Michelles leftovers.

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- Stu D. Baker-Hawk
  Posted on September 9, 2011 at 10:49pm
  Uh, Michelle eats so much that there usually aren’t any ‘leftovers’ to be had… Just sayin’…
  
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- Rayblue
  Posted on September 10, 2011 at 12:02am
  I could fry a pork chop with the grease off her back.
  If you like really greasy pork chops.
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:10pm
Abolish all forms of welfare it’s unconstitutional and immoral.

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- Sheepdog911
  Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:19pm
  It wpu;d be cheaper to put them all in prison, including the criminals who want to give them this housing …at my expense.
  
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Outlaw_Josey_Wales
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:09pm
$4 million no problem Ben Bernanke will print the money.

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progressiveslayer
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:08pm
Central planners making everything right,we’re being bankrupted by a Marxist regime and this fool has to go.Progressives only need to rig a few districts to secure another term for the Marxist so we’ll have to overcome the voter fraud that’s coming.

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Dustyluv
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:06pm
How is that even possible????????????

Someone needs to go to PRISON!

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AZGodGoldGuns
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:05pm
This is down right criminal, why isn’t DOJ arrest who ever thought of this project and approved it.
It’s fraud, that money is going into someone’s pocket and it’s not the homeless.

Political corruption should be a crime of treason, punishable by death or life in prison. Our political leaders should be held accountable, voting them out is not enough, if it means prison for life then so be it.

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dcart888
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:04pm
Liberals in state of MA now you can guess what it’s costing you to house Obama’s Auntie and Uncle
Ain’t Socialist America Great?

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W@nd@
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:03pm
I thought Montgomery County was a pretty wealthy county…
Thats what i remember hearing…
do they have homeless or is this redistribution of homeless
just curious!

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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:15pm
  I don’t know the area but the Marxist in chief believes he can make everyone equal, a utopia.When he’s done with us we’ll all be equally poor.
  
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- GAMom77
  Posted on September 9, 2011 at 11:33pm
  If you decided not to work and be on the lam from your responsibilities, wouldn’t you want to live somewhere really nice too?
  
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jefferson1743
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:02pm
Obama must love Maryland Now that’s what I call spreading the wealth..

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kindling
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 8:59pm
I have wondered about this for some time now. For all the money the government is throwing around, especially to foreign banks and countries they could have just handed it to the CITIZENS of the USA and we would have been able to buy homes, cars and spread it around creating jobs everywhere. I wonder if that company in Fremont CA took all that money from Obama and just passed it out and filed bankruptcy. Here I am now having lost my home to forclosure and still owing the bank more than it is worth and some other family is now living in it for less than half what I had paid for it.

On another subject….I have moved to a little farm and I love reading the news so much *cough * cough* that I decided to name all my sheep and one of my goats after people I read about. I have named my sheep; Michelle Obaaaaaama, Baaaaarack Obama, Hillary (she is stout and looks like she is wearing a pants suit), Ram Emanuel (he has dark circles around his eyes), and Dolly Lama (she is the peace keeper). I have a stinky male goat in with the sheep because he is a horn dog and his name is Billy Clinton. I asked a butcher how old my spring born ram should be when we butchered him and he said for the best flavor I should look at maybe 18 months. That puts it around November of 2012.…..how funny I found that because I had named him Baaaaarack. Now we sit and laugh at the people that are destroying our country rather than cry like we did before we lost our home.

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- raspberrytea
  Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:08pm
  Good for you and your family. I enjoyed reading your post.
  There’s nothing like living on a farm!! I enjoy the
  country life more than the city.
  
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- Steverino
  Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:15pm
  If I were President, I would start with a very simple concept:
  Task somebody to analyze EVERY government bureaucracy, and direct them to eliminate AT LEAST one level of “middle management”.
  Across the board – EPA, NEA, TSA, FTC, all the alphabet soups would get this treatment.
  Let them figure it out for a year or so, THEN DO IT AGAIN.
  Keep doing it again until every government office is a hive of activity, like things work in the REAL WORLD.
  Steve
  
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- Therightsofbilly
  Posted on September 10, 2011 at 1:12am
  STEVERINO
  
  If you run, I’ll help.
  
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roadhog
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 8:58pm
Obamas Uncle Omar and Odiga

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rockstone
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 8:58pm
And this guy went on the tube last night and axed for another half a trillion dollars?

The stones on these people……

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YepImaConservative
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 8:55pm
Hmmmmmm…. we really gotta’ kick Obama out of our House. I hear there are nice accomodations in Bathesda, Maryland. It will be tight, but I know they can hang in there for a year.

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GodsDotr
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 8:51pm
This article has me wondering why I’m working. I could “build” a solar plant or an apartment house for the homeless and be given so much more by the government than I would earn in my lifetime.

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- dmforman
  Posted on September 9, 2011 at 8:56pm
  That is what the government wants. Resist the urge.
  
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- 338lapua
  Posted on September 9, 2011 at 9:04pm
  ….and the price??
  Your soul!
  Don’t do it
  
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kickagrandma
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 8:51pm
Well, four of the twelve are living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

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- jharper
  Posted on September 10, 2011 at 8:15pm
  hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha ROFL!!!!
  
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- jharper
  Posted on September 10, 2011 at 8:25pm
  They will need it come November! You crack me up!!! Brilliant.
  
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eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 8:50pm
12 more obama relatives getting a free-ride at taxpayer expense?

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RightPolitically
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 8:49pm
Madness!

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