Riot erupts in Taylor, Michigan over shortage of vouchers

[Vypernight]

http://times247.com/articles/67riot-ensues-at-section-8-voucher-giveaway5

Apparently more people showed up than they expected and a riot broke out.  Sounds like Black Friday and Walmart all over again, only this time no one was hurt, fortunately.

Of course, all fingers immediately point to Obama's 'handouts,' and the fact that they are turning people into monsters who shove children out of the way to get 'free stuff.'

My question is, who really is at fault here?  Should the finger really be pointed at our president and/or the rest of the Democrats or is there more involved.  It's hard to determine because a quick google search brought up page-after-page of, "People stomp each other for Obama's Handouts!" 

That leads me to another question.  What news sites out there, if any, don't lean right or left but call things the way they are?  I'm so sick of looking up an article on an incident or topic and getting, "Evil liberals," or "Conservatives . . . "  I don't mind a site that blasts the left or praises something on the right as long as they're blasting the topic itself and not because it's 'liberal' or 'conservative.' 

[Distind]

If I was going to put a label on it, probably desperation. Fuck the politics, if you qualify for something like this you're probably going to be a bit wound up to find out you've got a 1/5 chance in getting it due to a quota.

[nickiknack]

Yeah, the waiting list are really LONG, I know someone who was on the waiting list for close to 10 years. That being said, I'm sick of the whole "obama money, phones, etc" bs. It acts as if gov't welfare never existed before Obama took office.

[mellenORL]

Detroit and other Michigan factory cities at large are truly in death knell stage. It is so bloody awful there these past 10 years or so. I see more and more Detroit transplants down here in Orlando. We keep sitting on our asses watching our industrial cities die due to off-shoring fucking everything. Cuz the highest possible profit margins must be our only value!
Right.

[Her3tiK]

Detroit and other Michigan factory cities at large are truly in death knell stage. It is so bloody awful there these past 10 years or so. I see more and more Detroit transplants down here in Orlando. We keep sitting on our asses watching our industrial cities die due to off-shoring fucking everything. Cuz the highest possible profit margins must be our only value!
Right.

It's a combination of that and wanting cheaper goods. Unfortunately, it doesn't make economic sense to make things in America and pay workers living wages, when you can pay some Malaysian children (completely pulling a country out of my ass for the sake of the argument) less than a dollar a day, without worrying about little things like "insurance", "pensions", "restroom breaks", or "fire escapes"? It's the logical result of the capitalist business model looking to increase the profit margin.

[ThunderWulf]

Detroit and other Michigan factory cities at large are truly in death knell stage. It is so bloody awful there these past 10 years or so. I see more and more Detroit transplants down here in Orlando. We keep sitting on our asses watching our industrial cities die due to off-shoring fucking everything. Cuz the highest possible profit margins must be our only value!
Right.

It's a combination of that and wanting cheaper goods. Unfortunately, it doesn't make economic sense to make things in America and pay workers living wages, when you can pay some Malaysian children (completely pulling a country out of my ass for the sake of the argument) less than a dollar a day, without worrying about little things like "insurance", "pensions", "restroom breaks", or "fire escapes"? It's the logical result of the capitalist business model looking to increase the profit margin.

The sad part is a lot of people realize this, but refuse to pay more for American made or "first-world" made goods.  You can't have it both ways people!

[Her3tiK]

Detroit and other Michigan factory cities at large are truly in death knell stage. It is so bloody awful there these past 10 years or so. I see more and more Detroit transplants down here in Orlando. We keep sitting on our asses watching our industrial cities die due to off-shoring fucking everything. Cuz the highest possible profit margins must be our only value!
Right.

It's a combination of that and wanting cheaper goods. Unfortunately, it doesn't make economic sense to make things in America and pay workers living wages, when you can pay some Malaysian children (completely pulling a country out of my ass for the sake of the argument) less than a dollar a day, without worrying about little things like "insurance", "pensions", "restroom breaks", or "fire escapes"? It's the logical result of the capitalist business model looking to increase the profit margin.

The sad part is a lot of people realize this, but refuse to pay more for American made or "first-world" made goods.  You can't have it both ways people!

The technical term is "libertarian".

[nickiknack]

We could always put in place some sort of border adjustable tax, but that means we might have to start all over with the tax code.

[Lt. Fred]

Funny how it's not a riot for free stuff if people jostle in the line for aid in, say, Mali. Huh.

[Canadian Mojo]

Detroit and other Michigan factory cities at large are truly in death knell stage. It is so bloody awful there these past 10 years or so. I see more and more Detroit transplants down here in Orlando. We keep sitting on our asses watching our industrial cities die due to off-shoring fucking everything. Cuz the highest possible profit margins must be our only value!
Right.

It's a combination of that and wanting cheaper goods. Unfortunately, it doesn't make economic sense to make things in America and pay workers living wages, when you can pay some Malaysian children (completely pulling a country out of my ass for the sake of the argument) less than a dollar a day, without worrying about little things like "insurance", "pensions", "restroom breaks", or "fire escapes"? It's the logical result of the capitalist business model looking to increase the profit margin.

But we need cheaper gods because real world income has been declining for the past thirty years so off-shoring is helping maintain the American standard of living.