Trump Guts ‘Unnecessary’ Agencies Serving Homeless, Libraries, and Museums

T. A. Gardner said:
Actually, if you bother to look at the studies that say that, in virtually every case the researchers used self-reporting for that basis. That is, the homeless person was asked if they were a veteran and their answer taken at face value. Many homeless--a majority in my opinion--will lie to your face if they think it will benefit them.

Given that just 6% of Americans today are veterans, and virtually all of those graduated at least high school, would have been on entering service in good health, and then while in the service learned some degree of skills, it argues against a high percentage of homeless being veterans.
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I do agree that many of the homeless will lie and say they are whatever will get them help. But I also helped several homeless people get paperwork to get help. The government programs that help the homeless generally need a fair amount of proof, and will even check fingerprints sometimes.

But you are right, it is hard to say the exact percent of the homeless that are veterans.
 
Guno צְבִי said:
Yea, we don't need no stinkin building codes just trust the builder
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Oh, we need them. What we don't need are ones that are gross overkill.

For example, both the NEC and IRC require arc fault interrupt breakers for all bedrooms on a home now. These are totally fucking worthless and add about $250 to $500 to the price of a home. While that's small change, it adds up with each additional requirement of that sort.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Land isn't usually the issue, regulations are. The amount of nonsense in building code is almost astounding. For me to change the service panel ( the "breaker panel") on your house here in the Phoenix metro area if you are in APS's service area will take me about 2 days of work and about 90 to 120 days of bureaucratic bullshit and waiting on government and big corporation incompetence to do.

Or California...

Try getting a building permit for rebuilding after those wildfires. Hell, try just accessing your lot. But the government there has plenty of time, money, and manpower to teardown a treehouse they don't like and won't approve.

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That is another reason I avoid real estate, other than where I live.

I owned part of an apartment that had been built in the 1950's. The township was mostly macmansions, so they wanted the apartment gone. They pulled the occupancy license on the building, claiming it was a new construction. When we pointed out that it had been there for nearly half a century, they tried to destroy the records of it. Two years later, they were paying us a very nice settlement, and I made a very nice profit.

The part that still bothers me is that as part of the settlement, they bought and destroyed the building. Hard working people lived there, and had to move a greater distance from their work. A kid that was on track to be class valedictorian had to leave the good school for a worse school. If it had been up to me, I would have continued to fight for the right to own that apartment...

But I only owned part of the apartment, and was out voted.
 
Walt said:
That is another reason I avoid real estate, other than where I live. I owned part of an apartment that had been built in the 1950's. The township was mostly macmansions, so they wanted the apartment gone. They pulled the occupancy license on the building, claiming it was a new construction. When we pointed out that it had been there for nearly half a century, they tried to destroy the records of it. Two years later, they were paying us a very nice settlement, and I made a very nice profit. The part that still bothers me is that as part of the settlement, they bought and destroyed the building. Hard working people lived there, and had to move a greater distance from their work. A kid that was on track to be class valedictorian had to leave the good school for a worse school. If it had been up to me, I would have continued to fight for the right to own that apartment... But I only owned part of the apartment, and was out voted.
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Cool story, Salty Walty.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
For example, both the NEC and IRC require arc fault interrupt breakers for all bedrooms on a home now. These are totally fucking worthless and add about $250 to $500 to the price of a home.
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Why do you think arc fault interrupter are useless? They prevent loose wires from forming arcs that burn houses down... Or so I have been told. Are you saying that is not so?

T. A. Gardner said:
As per years of actual experience
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Fire investigation experience?
 
Walt said:
Why do you think arc fault interrupter are useless? They prevent loose wires from forming arcs that burn houses down... Or so I have been told. Are you saying that is not so?


Fire investigation experience?
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Because they are useless. They are designed to trip when there is a surge in current in the circuit. Unplugging something that draws a spark will trip them. If you plug in something that uses make / break contactors and draws heavy current, like a space heater, every time it cycles it'll trip the AFI.

They are supposed to be for having something like a frayed cord that is arcing, but common sense would tell you anyone but a moron wouldn't be plugging in something that has a chewed up cord.

My experience in electrical work. I've had to deal with AFI's for years now--they came out in code back in the early 90's. Hubble invented them, and as far as I can tell the company lobbied to get them in code to make sales.
 
For cheapy McCheapskate AKA @T. A. Gardner:



America needs more affordable housing, and the federal government can make it happen by making federal land available to build affordable housing stock.

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This is about more than building houses. We want to build hope. Overlooked rural and tribal communities will be a focus of this joint agreement. We are going to invest in America’s many forgotten communities. As we enter the Golden Age promised by President Trump, this partnership will change how we use public resources. A brighter future, with more affordable housing, is on its way.





 
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