Denver city diverts 90 million bucks from the needy to sponsor human trafficking.
A moth ag I posted a couple of articles about the situation in Denver as its “woke” policies supporting human trafficking and other “woke” ideologies to deny help to the needy.
Well, guess what. The Epoch Times just published this:
Denver Cuts Taxpayer Services, Diverts $90 Million to Support Illegal Immigrants | The Epoch Times
“The illegal immigrants will be housed in apartments for up to six months. They will also receive job and skills training and food assistance.”
From here:
Homelessness in Denver: An in-depth look into an ongoing crisis (denver7.com)
2 Between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021, more than 32,000 people across the Denver metro area – 32,223, to be exact – sought and accessed services related to homelessness, according to the January State of Homelessness report, which compiled information obtained through the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS).”
That was three years ago.
Enquiring minds want to know “if 90 million bucks was available to criminals now, why was it not available to Denver’s homeless before the criminal immigrants showed up?
3,000 bucks per homeless person might last as long as the “temporary aid” give to criminal immigrants – maybe long enough to get them UNWOKE skills whilst being fed and housed.
Side note: are the skills for the criminal migrants “woke” skills, like correct pronoun usage o top of learning how to speak English in general?
Why aren’t the homeless entitled to the same free shit given to criminals?
Then, of course, there is the poor, especially the “new poor” that have slipped into poverty because of “Woke” policies creating food, health and energy poverty, labelled as “inflation” but really, created by Democratic Party politicians and apparatchiks.
From here:
“11.8% of Denver, CO residents had an income below the poverty level in 2022, which was 19.9% greater than the poverty level of 9.4% across the entire state of Colorado. 8.3% of high school graduates and 25.8% of non high school graduates live in poverty. The poverty rate was 25.2% among disabled residents. The renting rate among poor residents was 76.0%. For comparison, it was 29.8% among residents with income above the poverty level.
Poverty lines vary but are generally below 30,000 bucks.
Poverty Guidelines | ASPE (hhs.gov)
That would make around 85,000 Denver residents at or below the poverty line. An extra 50 buck a week for six months over winter especially would make a huge difference.
But there you go. The elected politicians of Denver could give two shits about their own people – just criminals.
Onwards!!!
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Breaks my heart. I loved the city like no other, only one I ever called "home." For 25 years. I watched it grow into a beautiful, vibrant one, having its less appealing quirks as all cities do. But it served me, my life for as long as it did, happily.
I became a part of it and it of me. I was an active citizen, with a profile and access to leaders. I learned much about how the real world operates inside the wheels and gears of its governance and industry.
Until everything I learned and all who I thought I knew scrapped everything they used to know and did for good governance, flushed away beginning in March, 2020. Yes, it endured mayors and leaders who promised to end homelessness, only to pay for more if it since the early 2000's. But it hummed along, anyways. It endured mayors and leaders associated with a "Denver Players Club" high-end escort scene for prominent power brokers. It went "woke" before most. The level of grift and corruption exceeded that of comparable size cities. But it was home because the offensive side largely kept to itself and was out of view.
Until 2020. When all of the worst forces in it took center stage. Preying on the goodwill it had built up in the community, the trust earned over decades, to destroy what it had created. Leaders who I thought knew better and would surely not want to see all of their hard work destroyed, their investments devalued, their stated goals just months prior forgotten, even objected to and condemned, 180-degree flips.
I visit now and the shell of my "home" city is still there. But its heart and soul are gone. It's empty. It's dark. It's performative. Nothing is real there now. Nothing is as it seems. Denver is a zombie city today. I wish I knew how to save an undead city. How long can an undead body move about as chunks of rotting flesh fall off it and lay nearby for maggots to scavenge? Breaks my heart.
Mr. Halligan, thank you so much for posting your article on this horrendous situation in Denver. Of course it's not just in Denver, but the fact that Denver is bragging about helping criminal illegals and taking money away from the already poverty-stricken American citizens makes it even more egregious. This is happening all over America, yet there are still people (liberals) who support the illegal invasion of America. America used to be called "The Land of Opportunity." My dad was born in 1920 into dire poverty. He was the son of a single mother and had 3 siblings. There were very few jobs for women in those days. so at 6 yrs old he went into the work world to support his family. He worked very hard to establish a thriving and very successful public relations business. His passion was to take on clients who had been lied about or sidelined and to get the truth out. He NEVER lied or covered up anything, unlike today's P.R. companies. He was in WW2 and stayed in military reserves afterwards to become an admiral. He also became a top advisor and speech writer to a past U.S. president - only to be threatened with ruin because he wouldn't give in to the corrupt deep state. He had a stirling reputation and was extremely honest. I remember the day he told "I never could have accomplished what I did in any other country but America." Those days are long gone and I've never come across anyone else who accomplished anything close to what my dad did - because America is not America any more, nor is it hte land of opportunity for decent, honest American citizens any more. It's the land of opportunity for criminals, thieves, murderers and child sex traffickers. Everything that was ever noble and beautiful about America has been destroyed, all in my lifetime.
Back in 1969, I traveled to England. It was the summer that America sent Buzz Aldrin and 2 other astronauts to the moon, the first time that had ever happened. After watching the moon landing on T.V., I remember our hosts, who had been through the horror of WW2 in England said to me "you Americans, you can do ANYTHING." I was so proud to be American.
At 70 y.o., I don't recognize my own country anymore. I'm a stranger in a strange land.