I Barack Obama loan Vietnam $1.26 mil. (while Americans are homeless & jobless)

[Wolfmoon]

IMO, Communist Vietnam will enjoy their new jobs and Satellite, Thanks America, NOT!

The middle class has too much money the government must give some of it away. It’s OK because we can always borrow more from communist red China.

6/25/12

I Barack Obama determine that it is in the national interest of the United States for the Export Import Bank of the United States to extend a loan in the amount of approximately $125,870,890 to the Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group, a wholly state owned company, for the purchase of a U.S. manufactured telecommunications and television satellite.
You are authorized and directed to publish this determination in the Federal Register.

BARACK OBAMA

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/06/25/presidential-memorandum-presidential-determination-us-export-import-bank
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[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat ain't right - Obama oughta let `em get around him onna podium so's he can tell how he gonna help the homeless get homes so dey won't be homeless!...

Homeless people in park along inaugural parade route forced to move
Sunday, January 20, 2013 - A dozen or so people, many homeless, regularly camp out in and around a small D.C. park between the Canadian Embassy and the federal courthouse a short walk from where President Obama takes the oath of office Monday.

On a cold Friday night with final inaugural preparations under way, they curled atop steam grates while others unable to get warm spots huddled under blankets on benches. But it was no typical Friday night around John Marshall Park. Hundreds of thousands of tourists had begun to flood into the city to celebrate Mr. Obama’s inauguration, which meant one thing for the people who usually call this place home — warnings to clear out their stuff. “Last week some time ago, U.S. Park [Police] pulled up in front of where we were at,” said one man who had his blankets folded up and bags lined on a bench along Pennsylvania Avenue. While he described spending his nights outside in the cold, he did not want to be identified, nor referred to as homeless. Instead, he said, he was a “traveler.” “Two of them were in the car, one of them got out,” the traveler said of police. “His exact words were, ‘Who’s stuff is this?’ I said, ‘That’s ours.’ He said, ‘You need to send this out. You need to take what you can carry. Anything that’s left will be taken.’ And he got back in the car and left.”

That encounter was typical of others, he said. The man shared copies of fliers that he said people in and around the park had been receiving, including one titled, “The Inauguration is Coming … What does this mean for you?” The flier notes, “You may be asked to move locations on or around Inauguration Day as they get ready and secure the premises.” Another flier made clear that restricted areas for the inauguration includes places “where people are currently sleeping and storing personal belongings.” That document from the Washington-based United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, which included a map of restricted areas, noted that the D.C. Department of Human Services and the city’s Department of Mental Health, along with other service providers, were working to reach out to people displaced by the inauguration.

The efforts included providing 24-hour shelter services and arranging for temporary storage of personal items. Officials from Presidential Inaugural Committee 2013 declined to comment Sunday. To be sure, the presence of homeless people in an area so close to the swearing-in poses public relations problems for the nation’s capital, with the city eager to impress visitors from across the country. But there could be security concerns, too, as some people store their belongings in trash bags or backpacks much larger than what is allowed in restricted areas during the inauguration.

Sgt. Paul Brooks, a spokesman for the U.S. Park Police, said he wasn’t aware of any officers advising homeless people in the park to leave, but he said it was possible. He said the parade route needed to be secure, and he referred additional questions to the Secret Service, which had no immediate comment. The inaugural ceremony begins on Capitol Hill at 11 a.m., and the parade along Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House is scheduled to begin at about 2:30 p.m. Between 600,000 and 800,000 people are expected to attend.

Read more: Homeless people in park along inaugural parade route forced to move - Washington Times

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Report: DC officials lower turnout estimate for Inauguration Day
1/20/13 - Officials in the District of Columbia are lowering their turnout projections for President Obama’s second inauguration.

Chris Geldart, the director of the District's Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, said Sunday that they now expect between 500,000 and 700,000 people to attend the Monday events, according to a report in The Associated Press. That figure is below the original 600,000-to-800,000 estimate, which itself was well below the 1.8 million estimated to have watched Obama being sworn in on Jan. 20, 2009.

The report said that city officials are basing their revised number on the number of charter buses that have arrived in Washington as well as an accounting of hotel and restaurant reservations. But Geldart said that officials are not making any alterations to their security or transportation plans.

President Obama’s second term officially began shortly before noon on Sunday, when he was sworn in by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in a short ceremony at the White House. But because the inauguration date set by the Constitution falls on a Sunday, organizers are holding the ceremonial public swearing-in and inaugural parade on Monday. Vice President Biden was also sworn in earlier Sunday, by Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

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[GoneBezerk]

Well, after he took over $480B from the DoD budget last year and will take $500B this year....he has money to give away to his friends and people overseas while people lose their jobs in the national defense industry.

Vietnam is closer to his homeland of Indonesia than Kansas.

 

[waltky]

Large families turnin' up at homeless shelters...

D.C.’s main homeless shelter is crowded with large families who have multiple children.
February 27`13 - In the moments just before sleep and after the shelter staff banged on the door to enforce curfew, Sharisse Baltimore and her children said their prayers.

The four oldest, curled up on small cots squeezed together in a row, always asked for “safety-ness, happiness and health.” In the fall, Baltimore added something else to the list. She wished for a subsidized housing voucher so her family could move into their own home. Last Friday, that happened. A shortage of affordable housing for larger families with four or more children is a big factor behind crowded conditions at the District’s main family homeless shelter in Southeast Washington. The shelter has been filled to capacity this winter, with more than 900 people, including a record 600 children some nights. Such families stay far longer than average in the converted rooms of the abandoned D.C. General Hospital, creating a bottleneck at a shelter initially intended to provide only temporary respite from the cold. One mother of 13 — five of whom lived with her in the shelter — was there for more than a year.

D.C. Department of Human Services officials say the rapidly gentrifying city has lost more than half of its affordable housing in the past decade. That makes it difficult to find an affordable house or apartment big enough for larger families, even with government help, they say. “It’s always been more difficult for larger families, but it’s more acute now because prices are more expensive than they were even a year ago,” said Fred Swan, the agency’s family services administrator. For that reason, large families were among the priority groups eligible for 250 rental assistance vouchers, for which the city allocated $4 million in June. But progress has been slow in finding accommodations. To date, just about half the vouchers have been given out.

In D.C. a family struggles to get by: Homeless families in the District struggle with a lack of both affordable housing and shelter space, but placement is especially difficult for large families like Sharisse Baltimore’s. Families with four or more children comprise a quarter of the population at the city’s main homeless shelter, which has been filled beyond capacity this winter, with more than 900 people and a record 600 children. Late last year, Baltimore received a rental assistance voucher for families of five or more. They moved into their new rowhouse Friday.

City agencies have made finding larger homes a priority. The search is hampered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s federal limits on rents for subsidized housing, which are $1,890 for three bedrooms and $2,374 for four bedrooms in this region, city officials say. Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) says he wants to allocate $100 million to create or build 10,000 affordable housing units in the coming months. The effort, details of which will be released next month, will include a combination of subsidized housing and renovated or newly built homes and apartments, some of which will benefit the city’s poorest residents. “We’re trying to step up our efforts to get families quickly rehoused and and create more housing options,” Gray said, noting that the city spent more than $100 million on homeless services in the current budget.

Family homelessness in the city, up 74 percent since the economic downturn, has continued to increase, even as it has stagnated or dropped in neighboring jurisdictions. In addition to the nearly 600 children at D.C. General, 500 more are in overflow hotel rooms and other shelters, according to the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless.

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