RUSH: Dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut. Clarence ‘Frogman’ Henry and an unbelievable homeless update.
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Now here’s the headline. Keep the song going there, Ed. The headline: ‘NYC Sending Homeless to Georgia, South Carolina.’ The story is in the Augusta Georgia Chronicle.
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RUSH: They used to just move ’em down to the Bowery. Now they’re getting them outta town.
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RUSH: Nineteen-fifty-six vocal portrayal here, Clarence ‘Frogman’ Henry. Up next, Clarence ‘Frogman’ Henry as a frog.
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RUSH: All right, finale time.
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RUSH: From the Augusta Georgia Chronicle: ‘New York City is buying one-way plane tickets for homeless families to leave the city, and dozens of the families have landed in Georgia and South Carolina. It’s part of a Bloomberg administration program to keep the homeless out of the expensive shelter system, which costs $36,000 a year per family. More than 550 families have left the city since 2007. All it takes is for a relative to agree to take them in. Families have been sent to 24 states and five continents. While Puerto Rico is the most popular destination, Georgia is now home to 38 of the families and South Carolina was the final destination for 31 families relocated by the program. Florida has taken in 100 families and 47 more are calling North Carolina home.’
Yeah I know the families agreed to take ’em and so forth. I kind of hid that little tidbit from you throughout the — but think of this. They have a shelter program. New York City has a shelter program. They’ve got a program to deal with this and they’re giving these people one-way tickets out of town. I wonder if they give ’em any cupcakes for the plane flight.