Shuffle Off To Buffalo

[abbey1227]

Nov 26, 2022 12:20:04 GMT merh said:

Conclusion
In conclusion, there are many fast food options that take EBT/food stamps. These options include McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, Taco Bell, Subway, and KFC. While not all locations of each restaurant accept EBT/food stamps, most do. Therefore, it is possible to find a fast food restaurant that takes EBT/food stamps near you.

Resources
If you are struggling to make ends meet, you may be wondering what fast food options are available to you that accept EBT/food stamps. While the selection is admittedly limited, there are still some choices out there. Here is a list of some of the most popular fast food chains that accept EBT/food stamps:

-McDonald’s: While not all locations participate, many McDonald’s across the country do accept EBT/food stamps.
-Burger King: Burger King also has locations that accept EBT/food stamps.
-Taco Bell: Taco Bell is another fast food chain with some locations that accept EBT/food stamps.
-KFC: KFC is yet another fast food chain with locations that participate in the program.

While this list is by no means exhaustive, it should give you an idea of some of your options if you need to use your EBT/food stamp benefits at a fast food restaurant.

This information does not make me happier 

[merh]

Nov 26, 2022 13:23:55 GMT abbey1227 said:

Nov 26, 2022 12:20:04 GMT merh said:

This information does not make me happier 

It appears to be s program largely aimed at seniors & homeless.

[abbey1227]

Nov 26, 2022 18:38:12 GMT merh said:

Nov 26, 2022 13:23:55 GMT abbey1227 said:

This information does not make me happier 

It appears to be s program largely aimed at seniors & homeless.

So that makes it all A-OK?       

I remember some discussions with the Homeless Guy I've known for years about his EBT. It started out  really high........but then they cut it down dramatically for some reason undisclosed. He went from over $200/mo to about $60?

Meanwhile I've had decades worth of watching people use EBT and never improve

[merh]

Nov 27, 2022 2:16:44 GMT abbey1227 said:

Nov 26, 2022 18:38:12 GMT merh said:

It appears to be s program largely aimed at seniors & homeless.

So that makes it all A-OK?       

I remember some discussions with the Homeless Guy I've known for years about his EBT. It started out  really high........but then they cut it down dramatically for some reason undisclosed. He went from over $200/mo to about $60?

Meanwhile I've had decades worth of watching people use EBT and never improve

Your politicians have likely been cutting it to discouraged people applying for it.

[merh]

Roads.

A 16-mile backup greets Southern California motorists returning from Las Vegas
Paul Pringle
Sun, November 27, 2022 at 12:59 PM
Hesperia, CA, Sunday, November 27 2022 - Heavy traffic along I-15 South as people return from a holiday weekend in Las Vegas. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
Heavy traffic along I-15 South as people return from a holiday weekend in Las Vegas. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
Motorists returning to Southern California after a Thanksgiving weekend in Las Vegas had nothing but bad luck Sunday as traffic on the main route across the Nevada border backed up for 16 miles.

"Heavy traffic to California," the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada tweeted at 11:30 a.m. "Prepare for long delays."

The bottleneck on Interstate 15 started just south of Primm on the Nevada side of the border and added about an hour to the drive from Las Vegas to Ontario, Calif., said Carmen Perkins, a traffic engineering technician for the commission.

"That's actually typical of Thanksgiving weekend traffic," Perkins said, adding that a similar crawl gripped the southbound stretch of the interstate Saturday.

The commission website had urged motorists to avoid the route on both days.

[merh]

Meanwhile in L.A.

www.yahoo.com/news/general-hospital-planning-life-mothballed-130031497.html

A new General Hospital: Turning an iconic L.A. landmark into homeless housing
Doug Smith, Andrew J. Campa
Sun, November 27, 2022 at 5:00 AM
A visitor looks around an operating room in the Los Angeles County General Hospital.
A visitor looks around an operating room at Los Angeles County General Hospital. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
The room is a marvel of architectural oddities. On one wall a cathedral-sized window frames the Eastside skyline. Facing it, several rows of wood-backed theater seats fan out, arching up at a dizzying angle to the ceiling three stories up.

The lone piece of furniture, a bedlike platform, stands on a pedestal in the center of the room.

Unchanged since the last patient left Los Angeles County General Hospital 14 years ago, the operating room encapsulates the rich opportunities and huge challenges for an institution that became too old and decrepit to go on as it was but is too much of a civic treasure to discard

The hospital’s operating rooms — like so much of its 1.2 million square feet of wards, laboratories and double-wide corridors — are full of intriguing possibilities and head-scratching questions. What would an operating room be good for, after all, besides surgery?

After years of stagnation and hand-wringing over what should become of the 100-year-old Art Deco monolith that towers over Boyle Heights, answers are beginning to take shape.

Los Angeles County, which owns the former hospital, has launched a multi-year program to reconfigure the H-shaped building into homeless and affordable housing. This will be the centerpiece of a "Healthy Village," with as many as 1,400 units with beds for housing, and medical and mental health care. Spaces for social services, community activities, arts and retail will be spread over its spacious grounds.

Using state and local funds, the county has committed $250 million to take the first step, preparing the 19-story building for its remake. That alone will be a huge project: removing asbestos and other hazardous materials, upgrading electrical and water systems, installing air conditioning and fire sprinklers, restoring inoperative elevators and building seismic shear walls. The prep work is expected to start early next year and be finished by next summer.

And all that is to just get the building in shape as a blank slate for its reincarnation as hundreds of affordable apartments.

The county will also be seeking a developer early next year who has creative ideas — like what a three-story operating theater could become — to partner in the project, which is expected to require $1 billion or more in public and private financing.

It isn't going to happen overnight. Through the end of this year, the county also will be consulting with community leaders to set broad goals for a development proposal that will encompass the hospital building and 12 acres of underutilized land to its west.

The final timeline is subject to negotiation with the developer. But construction would start in 2024 at the earliest, with completion in 2026.

On separate parcels on the northwest quadrant of the grounds, the county will continue developing the 8-acre Restorative Care Village, a complex of short-term and permanent housing for homeless patients with medical and mental health needs.

When all is done, the two "villages" will cover about 35 acres, stretching from Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center — General Hospital's replacement — on the southeast to Mission Road on the west, with the reimagined hospital building towering over all, like a cathedral with two transepts.

For more than a decade, the mothballed monument has been an object of curiosity and irritation for Eastside residents as they witnessed the spread of homeless camps around it and wondered why a resource of such great potential remained idle.

“There had been talks and studies about what it would take to rebuild the hospital, and it just wasn’t feasible,” said Frank Villalobos, founder of the prominent Eastside design firm Barrio Planners. “So, we’ve known for a while that something else had to be done.”

Architectural, cultural and environmental imperatives dictated against tearing the outmoded building down.

It represents one of the city's best examples of Art Deco architecture on a monumental scale.

Its significance as the centerpiece of the county's healthcare system is embodied in Salvatore Cartaino Scarpitta's concrete statues overlooking the entrance — the Angel of Mercy comforting an infirm couple flanked by Hippocrates, Louis Pasteur, Galen and other figures in medical history

Inside the foyer, ceiling murals by artist Hugo Ballin depict Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine, and his sons in a "saint-like rendering" that, according to a review on the Los Angeles Conservancy's website, suggests "an exalted place for the gods of medicine and their earthly instruments."

"Here you've got the biggest and best, a glorious building that has the possibility of connecting past, present and future," said Michael Lehrer, former president of the American Institute of Architects Los Angeles. "I think it could be very powerful."

Like City Hall and the Griffith Observatory, General Hospital is embedded in the identity of Los Angeles, standing broad-shouldered and tall in vistas from the 10 and 5 freeways or via a window seat on LAX’s flight path. It's also a fixture in popular culture as the iconic hospital in the long-running TV soap opera of the same name.

More so than any other L.A. landmark, though, it was an intimate and generational presence in countless lives.

“When I’m driving back into the city from outside, I feel like I’m home when I see General Hospital,” said Monica Alcaraz, a Highland Park resident who, like her four siblings, was born in one of its labyrinthine corridors and lived its complicated history.

It's where her mother was saved after having a heart attack in the mid-1990s.

Alcaraz gave birth to her own son in Women's and Children's Hospital, an adjacent building that was demolished last year. And there, in a much darker and more tragic chapter of the hospital's history, her godmother was sterilized under California's since-repealed eugenics law.

[abbey1227]

Nov 27, 2022 15:16:53 GMT merh said:

Nov 27, 2022 2:16:44 GMT abbey1227 said:

So that makes it all A-OK?       

I remember some discussions with the Homeless Guy I've known for years about his EBT. It started out  really high........but then they cut it down dramatically for some reason undisclosed. He went from over $200/mo to about $60?

Meanwhile I've had decades worth of watching people use EBT and never improve

Your politicians have likely been cutting it to discouraged people applying for it.

Not for the worst users involved, they haven't. Especially when offspring are involved in the equation

[abbey1227]

Nov 28, 2022 7:18:28 GMT merh said:

Meanwhile in L.A.

www.yahoo.com/news/general-hospital-planning-life-mothballed-130031497.html

A new General Hospital: Turning an iconic L.A. landmark into homeless housing


Los Angeles County, which owns the former hospital, has launched a multi-year program to reconfigure the H-shaped building into homeless and affordable housing. This will be the centerpiece of a "Healthy Village," with as many as 1,400 units with beds for housing, and medical and mental health care. Spaces for social services, community activities, arts and retail will be spread over its spacious grounds.

I look forward to seeing just how 'healthy' things get

[merh]

Nov 28, 2022 10:43:24 GMT abbey1227 said:

Nov 27, 2022 15:16:53 GMT merh said:

Your politicians have likely been cutting it to discouraged people applying for it.

Not for the worst users involved, they haven't. Especially when offspring are involved in the equation

I told you I always found it so insane when people from the Midwest would call "is it true you get $$$ a month on welfare?" I would transfer them to welfare, but it made no sense. It is so much more expensive here than there.

They didn't care.

[merh]

Nov 28, 2022 10:45:17 GMT abbey1227 said:

Nov 28, 2022 7:18:28 GMT merh said:

Meanwhile in L.A.

www.yahoo.com/news/general-hospital-planning-life-mothballed-130031497.html

I look forward to seeing just how 'healthy' things get

A lot of homeless have health issues 
Not just mental health.

The healthy village says that it is housing, medical & mental health so that is likely the point of the title. 

[abbey1227]

Nov 28, 2022 23:44:56 GMT merh said:

Nov 28, 2022 10:43:24 GMT abbey1227 said:

Not for the worst users involved, they haven't. Especially when offspring are involved in the equation

I told you I always found it so insane when people from the Midwest would call "is it true you get $$$ a month on welfare?" I would transfer them to welfare, but it made no sense. It is so much more expensive here than there.

They didn't care.

That's because the typical person isn't very good with numbers. They don't think to connect the dots of money/income/welfare vs the actual cost of living.

[abbey1227]

Nov 29, 2022 0:01:09 GMT merh said:

Nov 28, 2022 10:45:17 GMT abbey1227 said:

I look forward to seeing just how 'healthy' things get

A lot of homeless have health issues 
Not just mental health.

The healthy village says that it is housing, medical & mental health so that is likely the point of the title. 

I understand that.

I just don't believe getting them in better health is going to 'fix' them for the long term. It will keep them needing assistance for longer though........and THAT's probably the true goal here.

[merh]

Nov 29, 2022 3:28:38 GMT abbey1227 said:

Nov 28, 2022 23:44:56 GMT merh said:

I told you I always found it so insane when people from the Midwest would call "is it true you get $$$ a month on welfare?" I would transfer them to welfare, but it made no sense. It is so much more expensive here than there.

They didn't care.

That's because the typical person isn't very good with numbers. They don't think to connect the dots of money/income/welfare vs the actual cost of living.

Plus they just figured they would get section 8 out here without realizing the wait was like 2 yrs to move up the list here.

You wonder who is leaving California?
People who have come here in the last couple decades

[merh]

Nov 29, 2022 3:30:00 GMT abbey1227 said:

Nov 29, 2022 0:01:09 GMT merh said:

A lot of homeless have health issues 
Not just mental health.

The healthy village says that it is housing, medical & mental health so that is likely the point of the title. 

I understand that.

I just don't believe getting them in better health is going to 'fix' them for the long term. It will keep them needing assistance for longer though........and THAT's probably the true goal here.

But in the long run its cheaper to hook them up to services. 
It is cheaper to pay for their housing than the drain they pit on the system using emergency services.

[abbey1227]

Nov 29, 2022 11:50:54 GMT merh said:

Nov 29, 2022 3:28:38 GMT abbey1227 said:

That's because the typical person isn't very good with numbers. They don't think to connect the dots of money/income/welfare vs the actual cost of living.

Plus they just figured they would get section 8 out here without realizing the wait was like 2 yrs to move up the list here.

You wonder who is leaving California?
People who have come here in the last couple decades

I would think it's people who got tired of being taken for too much

[abbey1227]

Nov 29, 2022 11:52:39 GMT merh said:

Nov 29, 2022 3:30:00 GMT abbey1227 said:

I understand that.

I just don't believe getting them in better health is going to 'fix' them for the long term. It will keep them needing assistance for longer though........and THAT's probably the true goal here.

But in the long run its cheaper to hook them up to services. 
It is cheaper to pay for their housing than the drain they pit on the system using emergency services.

Simple answer..........skip the repeat customers

[merh]

Nov 29, 2022 12:23:01 GMT abbey1227 said:

Nov 29, 2022 11:52:39 GMT merh said:

But in the long run its cheaper to hook them up to services. 
It is cheaper to pay for their housing than the drain they pit on the system using emergency services.

Simple answer..........skip the repeat customers

So let them die in the street?
Or euthanasia them?

911 only for approved clients??

Death panels at last?

[abbey1227]

Nov 29, 2022 18:44:24 GMT merh said:

Nov 29, 2022 12:23:01 GMT abbey1227 said:

Simple answer..........skip the repeat customers

So let them die in the street?
Or euthanasia them?

911 only for approved clients??

Death panels at last?

YES!

The local paper loves to print things about public info..........but it won't list the names and costs off people who are repeat customers to 911? That abuse the shit out of the system? That cost others people $Thousands in tax dollars every single year?

[merh]

She left California for Arizona, but found high rent and lower wages
Maria Hollenhorst 2 days ago
Heard on:

Taylor Jenkins in a scrubby desert landscape, with a rock formation and cloud-streaked sky behind her.
Taylor Jenkins moved to Arizona from the San Francisco Bay Area in search of more affordable housing, but she struggled to find it there. Above, Jenkins in Arizona. Courtesy Taylor Jenkins

Growing up in Cupertino, California, Taylor Jenkins witnessed the impact of Silicon Valley’s growth on the Bay Area housing market.

“I remember slowly seeing everyone leave,” she said. “Especially the Latina/Latino and other African American kids just dwindled every year I was in school.”

Jenkins’ own family moved out of Cupertino to the East Bay when she was in high school. As she got older, she grappled with what her home state’s high housing costs would mean for her.

“As a 20-something-year-old who wasn’t a college graduate, I didn’t think it was possible for me to end up moving out on my own,” she said. “Either I stay with my parents forever or I would have to leave.”

In 2021, a friend who was living in Prescott Valley, Arizona, told Jenkins she was looking for a new roommate. “Two weeks later, I was en route,” Jenkins said. “It wasn’t a super-informed decision.”

During the pandemic, a surge of migration to Arizona fueled record price increases in and around Phoenix. The city remains a top destination for homebuyers leaving expensive coastal cities, according to data from Redfin.

“I was working close to 40 hours a week, commuting back and forth from Phoenix to Prescott Valley, and all I could make was my rent and my bills,” Jenkins said. “I would actually DoorDash after work. So I was getting home at like 3, 4 in the morning trying to make ends meet.”

According to a National Low Income Housing Coalition report, an Arizona worker would need to earn more than $23 an hour to afford a two-bedroom apartment. Meanwhile, the 2022 state minimum wage is under $13 an hour.


For Jenkins — who now works as a preschool teacher — Arizona’s rising housing insecurity fueled by new residents moving in felt all too familiar.

“I remember hearing the conversation my parents were having about rent and about where to go … and now, as a Californian, I see it happening here,” she said. “But I need somewhere to live.”

As the Federal Reserve continues to raise interest rates, Arizona’s housing market is cooling down. The median rent in Phoenix has now decreased slightly year over year, according to the rental platform Apartment List.

That said, Phoenix’s median rent remains well above its pre-pandemic levels. Jenkins remembers seeing a bumper sticker shortly after moving to Arizona that said, “Keep your California out of my Arizona.”

“I remember reading that and, like, almost laughing to myself,” she said. “Because it’s already here.”

[abbey1227]

Dec 8, 2022 1:06:47 GMT merh said:

She left California for Arizona, but found high rent and lower wages


According to a National Low Income Housing Coalition report, an Arizona worker would need to earn more than $23 an hour to afford a two-bedroom apartment. Meanwhile, the 2022 state minimum wage is under $13 an hour.


For Jenkins — who now works as a preschool teacher — Arizona’s rising housing insecurity fueled by new residents moving in felt all too familiar.

“I remember hearing the conversation my parents were having about rent and about where to go … and now, as a Californian, I see it happening here,” she said. “But I need somewhere to live.”

As the Federal Reserve continues to raise interest rates, Arizona’s housing market is cooling down. The median rent in Phoenix has now decreased slightly year over year, according to the rental platform Apartment List.

That said, Phoenix’s median rent remains well above its pre-pandemic levels. Jenkins remembers seeing a bumper sticker shortly after moving to Arizona that said, “Keep your California out of my Arizona.”

“I remember reading that and, like, almost laughing to myself,” she said. “Because it’s already here.”

How much for a California worker to afford a two-bedroom apartment? They skipped that for some reason?

That's right.......they brought higher prices and more Govt with them.    But you think she's learned that lesson yet? I doubt it.