2) More significantly, the report counts as “homeless” families who’ve “doubled up”–e.g., moved in with relatives–apparently on the grounds that while these children in these families do have a home, they don’t have “a home of their own.” That’s not what most people mean by homeless, and not the image Chappell conjures (tent cities, sleeping under bridges).

this is mind boggling…. i had a friend move last year. he and his wife do this while their home here was for sale. they could have made 2 house payments but were smart enough not to do it ‘just in case.’ what about the lazy dude living in his mom’s basement? is he homeless?

Lousiana had corrupt state and local leadership for decades. These scum bags did nothing for their people during Katrina.
The whole area needed a good double flush.

Gee Mick, that would be really bad…if it was true.

But, as usual, your numbers come from a place the sun don’t shine.

According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the resident population of the United States, projected to 03/26/09 at 22:40 GMT (EST+5) is: 306,089,152

According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the 2007 total pop. under 19 is 82,361,752.

Should I finish the math for you, or can you handle it from here.

Good luck, chum.

1 in 50 homeless children!?! At 400,000,000 Americans that comes out to 8,000,000 homeless children…I doubt it.

We would be tripping over the little urchins.

400,000,000 was just a rough stab in the dark, but as long as you want to be anal about it I’ll use your number.

That comes out to 1,647,235.04 homeless children. That’s 32,944 homeless kids per state.

Even with 2007 numbers not including the additional population in 2009 or the millions of illegals the 1 in 50 estimate is BULL SHIT.

RBB, math lessons from loons are worthless. As usual you don’t make a valid point defending the 50 to 1 claim.

Doubling up with family members, staying with friends, living in hotels or sharing rent may qualify these families as homeless. That’s a pretty loose interpretation.

Under these circumstances many could possibly be living better than if they were on their own. Most of these stats reflect single mothers and their children. Many of these mothers may be children themselves.

I myself moved out when I was 17 and lived with three buddies. Technically speaking all four of us were homeless under these guidelines.

children and youths who are sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason; are living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative

This is pure bullshit. Most young people share lodging to save money. Except for the time I lived in a motel (during the off-season in Virgina Beach) I share lodging with others (a period of about 12 years) until I was married. If the above criteria was used no wonder the numbers were drastically inflated.

I don’t consider someone to be homeless unless they are living on the street or in a homeless shelter.

With this rational there wont be anyone homeless in ND because of the floods. Sweet, another problem solved.

lets just wait to see how it all turns out…. i bet you wont find most of us living in fema trailers for two years. you also wont see many waiting in our homes for someone to save us because we just sat there and waited for the world to save us.

You know Dave, with the username “luv2bbq” you should spam about barbecue type items. Just a hint for future spamboting.

If we subtract illegals… what would the numbers look like then???

With this rational there wont be anyone homeless in ND because of the floods. Sweet, another problem solved.

FARGO — Investigators say a woman caused her husband’s death by giving him a sherry enema, leading to alcohol poisoning.

The enema caused his blood alcohol level to soar to 0.47 percent — almost six times the legal intoxication limit, a toxicology report showed.

Tammy Jean Barner, 42, was indicted on a charge of negligent homicide. She is also charged with burning the will of her husband, Michael Barner, a month before his death on January 21.

Michael Barner, a 56-year-old machine shop owner, had a long history of alcoholism but couldn’t ingest alcohol by mouth because of painful medical problems with his throat, said Fargo, ND, police detective Adolf Turner. The enema was a way he could become intoxicated without drinking alcohol, Turner said.

Turner said police think Barner gave her husband at least two large bottles of sherry, which is stronger than wine, in the enema.

“We’re not talking about little bottles here,” Turner said, “These were at least 1.5-liter bottles.”

They’ve had a lot longer than 12 hours OR 4 days to prepare Buzz. But as I’ve pointed out, unless there’s a political angle libs don’t give a shit. NO knew the levees were bad and made it known repeatedly. I don’t recall the Dems ever doing jack about it. You can say the Republicans didn’t either, but the Dems were the ones making themselves out to be more caring than thou two minutes later. If they cared so damn much about NO and the rest of the Katrina damages, why didn’t they funnel more of their social spending over the decades to preventative public works projects instead of subsistence welfare, payoffs to the well connected in the form of pointless civil service management jobs, etc., etc.? For crying out loud, even right now with the so-called stimulus package next to none of it was public works jobs of the sort that we rely on to keep the land under our feet livable. More pork and crap and when the shit hits the fan again, those same bungholes will be out there telling us how much they care.

Where were they before the disaster? Where were they then? Teaching us to fiddle instead of storing food for the winter and then blaming us when we did what they led us to and shaking their finger at us. Total hypocrites. Like usual. They encourage foolishness to empower and ingratiate themselves, then chide us for it and offer solutions that empower them further.

If they were the slightest bit noble, even one shred of them having redeeming value, they’d work to make a world where they were obsolete. Instead, well, we get more of them. And NO is just waiting for the next kidney punch from Mother Nature.

Heck of a job