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ckramer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 12:43 PM Original message |
More than 1 million New Yorkers ask: food or rent? |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
1. Um...time to leave New York? |
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acmavm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 01:12 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Where should they go? Life long New Yorkers should just |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 01:21 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. My Grandparents did it |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 01:24 PM Response to Reply #4 |
10. Worked for the indigenous people way back |
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acmavm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 03:55 PM Response to Reply #10 |
20. Well it's time to quit folding at the first sign of trouble and to |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 08:49 PM Response to Reply #20 |
81. "Time to start fighting back" AMEN to THAT!! |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 12:39 AM Response to Reply #4 |
43. My parents left NY many years ago because it was getting too |
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TomClash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 01:34 PM Response to Reply #1 |
12. And go where? |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 01:41 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Once again: There exists life beyond New Jersey |
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cdnwannabe (178 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 05:39 PM Response to Reply #14 |
23. Seems to me you have to be able to save money to move.... |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 11:24 PM Response to Reply #23 |
39. Just the New Yorker mentality that there is only one bastion of civilization |
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Tsiyu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 01:07 AM Response to Reply #39 |
44. All you need is $130 to MOVE- WHO KNEW?????? |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 08:45 AM Response to Reply #44 |
46. Deluded and Cold Hearted? |
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Tsiyu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 09:15 AM Response to Reply #46 |
55. If you never paid a deposit for utilities, you are fortunate |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 09:26 AM Response to Reply #55 |
56. Shitty credit actually. Running around on no money trying to save the world will do that to you. |
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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 10:29 PM Response to Reply #56 |
84. With the exception of Ohio |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-29-06 01:44 PM Response to Reply #84 |
91. Didn't pay in AZ...nor in VA |
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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-29-06 06:32 PM Response to Reply #91 |
95. credit has some to do with it I am sure |
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DocSavage (594 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 08:56 AM Response to Reply #44 |
48. Living in NY City working part time |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 09:07 AM Response to Reply #48 |
52. Hush! |
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Tsiyu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 09:09 AM Response to Reply #48 |
53. That easy, huh? |
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DocSavage (594 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 01:16 PM Response to Reply #53 |
62. If you |
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Tsiyu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 04:52 PM Response to Reply #62 |
69. Bad choices are made by people but they are also |
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Stephanie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 07:08 PM Response to Reply #69 |
78. well said |
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DocSavage (594 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 08:44 PM Response to Reply #69 |
80. Not sure where you live |
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Stephanie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 01:21 AM Response to Reply #14 |
45. Les Miz is for TOURISTS, like you. New Yorkers have other interests. |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 09:06 AM Response to Reply #45 |
51. No. Never seen and never will. Never been a tourist. I have been a visitor for other purposes. |
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Stephanie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 11:30 AM Response to Reply #51 |
57. I don't think you're exclusive and provincial. I think you're intellectually challenged. |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 12:22 PM Response to Reply #57 |
59. For the wealthy alone? Did I ever say that? |
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Stephanie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 01:11 PM Response to Reply #59 |
61. Your position so far: Get out of NYC if you can't afford it, and anyway the place stinks. |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 01:38 PM Response to Reply #61 |
64. Amazing... |
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Stephanie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 06:51 PM Response to Reply #64 |
74. You likely DO work for Fox News - that would explain your attitude toward NYC, and poor people. |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-29-06 01:46 PM Response to Reply #74 |
92. Fine don't |
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Missy Vixen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 05:32 PM Response to Reply #51 |
70. Just throwing this one out there |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 05:54 PM Response to Reply #70 |
71. The only thing I've seen of her is accusations of me being a pub |
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Stephanie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 07:06 PM Response to Reply #71 |
77. You insult all of New York City, you continue to do it in every post ... |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-29-06 01:42 PM Response to Reply #77 |
90. Bigot No. Someone who doesn't care for a high faluting attitude yes |
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Missy Vixen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 10:46 PM Response to Reply #71 |
85. DH was in New York City a total of ten weeks this year |
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Stephanie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 06:54 PM Response to Reply #70 |
75. I would love to meet you for coffee, Julie. |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 08:13 PM Response to Reply #12 |
37. Yeah, those are your only choices.... |
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Xenotime (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 02:02 PM Response to Reply #12 |
66. Texas. |
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LSK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 06:14 PM Response to Reply #12 |
73. lets see |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 12:21 AM Response to Reply #1 |
41. How? |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 12:32 AM Response to Reply #1 |
42. People's lives are much more complicated than that. Some people |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 09:12 AM Response to Reply #42 |
54. and they are the ones who need help! |
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AZBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 10:25 PM Response to Reply #1 |
83. Read the OP again. Hunger and poverty aren't found only in NY. |
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devilgrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 11:15 PM Response to Reply #1 |
88. I keep forgetting that picking up and moving costs NOTHING! |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 12:59 PM Response to Original message |
2. While America's corptocracy stockpiles their Everestian wealth unnecessarily . . . |
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saigon68 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 01:09 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Guys like Pierce Bush feel their pain |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 01:13 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. That's not exactly "pain" he's feeling . . . |
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ikojo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 08:42 PM Response to Reply #5 |
38. PIerce Bush could be pres one day....It never entered |
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Hawkeye-X (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 01:20 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. I didn't need to see that. |
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Joe Bacon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 08:48 AM Response to Reply #3 |
47. Hey Pierce, when are YOU signing up to go to Iraq? |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 01:15 PM Response to Original message |
6. Doesn't NYC have rent control laws? |
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DumpDavisHogg (255 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 01:23 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. I thought that p.o.s. Giuliani got rid of rent control |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 01:31 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. The scum have found ways around it |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 06:27 PM Response to Reply #11 |
26. Just ask Kofi Annan |
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bicentennial_baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 06:36 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Bullshit RW piece, imho |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 06:39 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. In other words, you can't dispute the facts. nt |
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bicentennial_baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 07:14 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. Um, no... |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 08:08 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. Have you googled the topic? |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 06:41 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. In a bullshit RW paper funded by none other than Richard Mellon Scaife |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 07:04 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Are you saying that Annan did not live in a rent control apartment |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 07:47 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. Mitchell-Lama housing is not the same as rent control |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 08:11 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. So he is middle class? OK. |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 12:28 PM Response to Reply #36 |
60. Ah, so that's what annoyed you. Republican-bashing. Nonexistent Republican-bashing, at that. |
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IDemo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 01:35 PM Response to Original message |
13. Look for the number and location to expand exponentially |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
15. "Hunger"? What's that? Oh, wait, you mean "food insecurity". |
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BenDavid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
16. Maybe that arrogant Trump |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
17. As I was just saying... |
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katty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 03:30 PM Response to Original message |
18. terrible choices - asked by so many suffering in the global gulag |
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lovuian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 03:34 PM Response to Original message |
19. if we had decent wages people wouldn't be hungry |
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sweetheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 03:57 PM Response to Original message |
21. usury |
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HockeyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 04:18 PM Response to Original message |
22. $450 for a 2 bedroom in Chelsea in 1993 |
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Scriptor Ignotus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 11:49 AM Response to Reply #22 |
58. a two bedroom in Chelsea |
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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 05:53 PM Response to Original message |
24. How terribly sad. |
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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 06:03 PM Response to Original message |
25. The real problem is that working people aren't making it. |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 08:11 PM Response to Reply #25 |
35. And the middle class isn't far behind |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 07:15 PM Response to Original message |
32. Kick for the real tragedy. |
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Jcrowley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 11:25 PM Response to Original message |
40. endemic |
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LynnTheDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 09:00 AM Response to Original message |
49. 35 million Americans struggled with hunger in 2005 |
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SpiralHawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 09:01 AM Response to Original message |
50. Why don't they just eat what the George AWOL Bush clan is eating? |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 01:17 PM Response to Original message |
63. And forget health care! |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 01:49 PM Response to Original message |
65. Those people need to move somewhere cheaper to live! |
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IdaBriggs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 06:03 PM Response to Reply #65 |
72. Quit making so much sense! It *ruins* the "poor victim" attitude |
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Xenotime (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
67. Here's what I think... |
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DaveJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 07:11 PM Response to Reply #67 |
79. I agree mostly... there are some holes |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 08:52 PM Response to Reply #67 |
82. Oh, shit!!! How much nutrition do you think is in those 3 for $1? |
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Sapphire Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 11:06 PM Response to Reply #67 |
86. If you ever have to ask "food or rent?", I hope you remember what you just posted; Meanwhile.... |
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Dastard Stepchild (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 04:39 PM Response to Original message |
68. I had to do this... Didn't want to though.... |
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DaveJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 06:57 PM Response to Original message |
76. How cares about affordable housing???? |
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Sapphire Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 11:11 PM Response to Original message |
87. People all over the country ask this same question. I ask why their human rights are being violated. |
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haele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 11:25 PM Response to Original message |
89. Cities lure in the less wealthy with jobs and then trap them in a cycle of poverty. |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-29-06 01:50 PM Response to Reply #89 |
93. i agree |
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Zodiak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-29-06 02:21 PM Response to Original message |
94. I just want to say... |
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