If you don't think the county is doing enough, there is an election in
November.
If Trenton isn't doing enough to help fix your problems, there is an
election in November.
So if you are so frustrated in how your elected officials are working
to fix these problems in your city - it would make sense to vote for
some different representation.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "justifiedright"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "rogerpoulard" <rogerpoulard@>
> wrote:
>
> > And if by the
> > city's own admission, we have 25 people living on the streets in as
> > small of an area as Asbury Park, the city clearly isn't doing enough
> > to fix it.
>
> How many of those people are from AP, and how many came here because
> this is where they are told to go after being released from prisons,
> hospitals, etc.?
>
> The city IS doing enough. The State and County are not. Please stop
> blaming "the City." That's just helping the folks from the County and
> State who are sending them here deflect responsibility from themselves.
>
> I don't know if you were at the Freeholders meeting a few months back,
> when the Freeholders held their meeting in AP.
>
> They spoke of a homeless count done in AP recently. They came up with
> a number (I forget the exact) of something well over 100 (such a
> rediculous number I can't even remember it).
>
> I inquired of how long the count took. Ready for this? One day. You
> couldn't talk to that many people in a day to find out if they are
> homeless if you invited them to a room and lined them up. Forget it
> if you have to go looking for them.
>
> I finally got to the bottom of it - the bigger the count, the more
> money the feds will send to the County or State (forget which) to deal
> with the "problem."
>
> So someone sent some joker out here for a day who probably saw any one
> of us walking down the street and marked us down as homeless. The
> more homeless, the more money.
>
> Two things: I don't believe any of the counts, and where the hell is
> the money, because they aren't sending it to Asbury.
>
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