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Shocking! East Village tent man taps utility
pole for heat as homelessness surges

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Posted By: Ribicon, 2/27/2022 3:26:57 PM

He might be penniless, but he’s got the power. The city has apparently turned a blind eye to a homeless man siphoning electricity from an East Village light pole for months to his new abode: a tent in Tompkins Square Park. Abdur-Rashiyd “JK” Rivera, 54, has lived the past three chilly winter months in shocking conditions, staking his home down in the trash-strewn south side of the popular park.(Snip)The tent man said he’s been approached some days by as many as four different city agencies, including the Department of Homeless Services, which boasts an annual budget of $2.1 billion. “The only thing the homeless services do,

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People live on city sidewalks, in parks, and on subway platforms and in tunnels. Anywhere they please, really, but the only thing that matters is there's a Department of Homeless Services that takes and spends $2.1 billion or more each year, with no results expected or delivered other than the spending, which in the process lines their own pockets.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Paintman 2/27/2022 4:20:43 PM (No. 1084768)
Last summer I saw a tent city in Chicago that frankly scared the snot out of me. I always thought Chicago dropped the ball years ago when they started tearing down the single room occupancy hotels. At least people had heat, a lockable door and access to indoor plumbing. Funny story. I was painting a truck stop in Gary Indiana. Bad neighborhood. Frigid Feburary night. I was looking out a big plate-glass window in the convenience store. And that's when a homeless man dropped his trousers and went to the bathroom in a large garbage can. The police immediately arrested him and he had a warm place to stay that night. And he didn't hurt anybody. The man could have done much worse. It seems I'm becoming a softie in my older age.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Timber Queen 2/27/2022 4:22:46 PM (No. 1084771)
I did seven years hard time working at my county's Socialist Services. The "Homeless Services" departments, organizations and "service providers" were instituted to give jobs to the army of college graduates in subjects ending in "studies". The *Studies programs were designed to train and brainwash the drones needed to be the directors, assistant directors, senior analysts, analysts and supervisors for the myriad of "social" programs passed by Progressive legislators at the local, state and federal levels. Your tax dollars are repaying their student loans! I started out with the gal who ran the homeless program for our county. She began with a good heart and great intentions. She was creative and proposed programs that centered on helping the homeless become self-sufficient members of society. The directors always praised her ideas and creativity; promising they will review ASAP and begin the "process" for adoption. They strung her along with this BS for several years until the futility of it began to wear her down. She made her escape about a month before I went to lunch and never went back. All of the welfare benefits and medicaid trillions of dollars have only benefited the vultures that vote for it, and all the subsequent levels of the bureaucracy down to the local level. But, hey, its all for the "common good" and its part of that "good" that the righteous be compensated for their expertise and wisdom. Hell is too "good" for them.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: GirlwithaCurl 2/27/2022 7:08:14 PM (No. 1084903)
Give the homeless problem back to the Church and you they will set up hospitals for the truly insane. Since when does the Government do any good for anyone???? The Church or private industry is key.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: JimBob 2/27/2022 9:31:04 PM (No. 1085039)
Article correction: First line. 'siphoning' should read 'stealing'.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: dickiedeeb 2/28/2022 1:51:32 AM (No. 1085201)
Credit for resourcefulness
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Trigger2 2/28/2022 3:54:16 AM (No. 1085261)
No doubt the city will jack up the rates for homeowners just to make up for what the demonrat valued homeless steal.
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