--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "justifiedright"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
I couldn't have said it any better, you are 100% correct. He should
go to S Belmar his hometown and try doing this shit there. Maybe
that's why he's not there. They probabaly ran him out of town.
This is the heart of the matter Dan.
>
> If you look at the whole picture, Asbury Park over the years has
> done enough.
>
> We were the dumping grounds for Marlboro hospital.
>
> We were the ones who allowed our housing stock to go mutifamily to
> help the poor.
>
> We are the ones who built federally subsidized housing to house the
> poor.
>
> We are the ones that take in more section 8 than any other town in
> the county.
>
> We are the ones suffering the segregated High School so we alone
> have to educate the poor to the exclusion of the rest of the County.
>
> We are ones to house the County's methodone clinic.
>
> We are the base for the Salvation Army.
>
> We are the home of interfaith neighbors.
>
> In fact, I understand there are over 80 non-profits helping the
> poor, and heard someone say once that non-profits helping the poor
> is Asbury Park's largest industry.
>
> We are the ones with 39 churches all helping the poor.
>
> We are the ones who allowed homeless people to sleep at City Hall,
> even attracting homeless from other towns.
>
> We are the ones perpetually trying more initiatives to help the
poor.
>
> All of that goodwill, YET EVERYTIME THERE IS A MORAL OBLIGATION TO
> HELP SOMEONE ELSE, EVERYONE LOOKS TO ASBURY PARK TO SHOULDER THE
> LOAD!
>
> The town with the most limited resources is tapped to handle the
> county and state's pressing social problems.
>
> When Father Bob wanted to build the Center, he was pastor of a
> church with srawling, open acres in Wayside. Not in his backyard -
> he built it here.
>
> Now comes the Market Street Mission to bring us more of the poor to
> help.
>
> Not one other town in Monmouth County does a fraction of what we do
> for the poor. Yet when a new challenge comes, they look at us and
> start holding "moral obligation" over our heads.
>
> Where is the moral obligatins of the other 51 towns in the county?
> How dare anyone, EVER look at the people if Asbury Park and inquire
> whether they will step up to help the poor. Go ask the other 51
> towns if they will, for once, help the poor instead of Asbury Park.
>
> Now comes Jim Keady. He marches into the place that is weary from
> helping the poor, and starts preaching to us that we have to do
> more.
>
> That is why he comes off as so arrogant. We've done all that and
he
> rides past the other 51 Monmouth towns to take us to task for not
> doing enough? It's insulting.
>
> If someone like you Dan comes into the middle of an argument
between
> me and Jim Keady, and see's Jim saying do more for the poor and me
> disagreeing with him, it is easy to paint him as the good guy and
me
> as the bad.
>
> That of course is intellectually lazy, because knowing all the
facts
> above leads to the conclusion that Jim Keady is going to give us
the
> straw that breaks the camel's back, while I want to (long overdue)
> strengthen the camel.
>
> If poverty is our problem, we shouldn't expand poverty here. We
need
> a bigger base of middle class and (finally, hopefully) some upper
> class.
>
> Let Jim Keady fight for the poor in some other town that isn't
doing
> anything for the poor.
>
> I'd support him.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dfsavgny" <dfsavgny@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Allan Peterson <nnjallans1@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > please define the agenda?
> >
> > They believe keady will fill the city with soup kitchens and
> shelters,
> > in other words, to give it to the poor. That has been said here
> > verbatim.
> >
>
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