US becoming a food stamp nation.

LH, what the hell does a metal detector have to do with using a library? Most all public libraries are now in schools. So you're implying I can no longer sign in at the desk of Conifer High School and use the library?

HEARTLESS wrote: LH, what the hell does a metal detector have to do with using a library? Most all public libraries are now in schools. So you're implying I can no longer sign in at the desk of Conifer High School and use the library?

I thought Jeffco was closing that as a public library.

It gets so little use, why not? But my question still stands.

Until I came to Colorado I never saw a public library in a school, they were always in separate library buildings, but yeah, most have been closed, and I never saw any in the poorer neighborhoods. It's not like they were on every street corner. Do libraries now allow anyone off the street to come in and use their computers?

I've used them for years until recently. They are PUBLIC libraries and payed for by us.

www.jeffcolibrary.org/locations/cf.html Latest info from their website.

Here are Colorado public libraries and some are in poor neighborhoods, who knew? www.publiclibraries.com/colorado.htm

it was a rumor I heard on another message board......Public Libraries, be they in schools or separate are great...do they have one of those in the slums of Detroit? if not, maybe the government should build them one. How about in Harlem.......how about in the coal mining towns? I think government should provide all communities with local access computers.....then the poor can learn how to grow their own food.....perhaps the government could give everyone currently in food stamps their own plot of ground to grow their food on....... We can't expect that law enforcement will look the other way if poor people all over the cities start growing food on other people's land.

Yep.....this idea of having the nations poor supply their own food is terrific......perhaps we could also send them to Med School so they can provide their own health care. This gets better and better.

So even Monteghetto has public libraries and seeds can be purchased very inexpensively. And there are neighborhood gardens all over town. Whats the excuse for these people not bettering their own lives? Oh yeah, why work when the government gives you stuff.

Here is the list (22 for the left that can't count)of the Detroit libraries. www.detroit.lib.mi.us/branches/Branch_Library.htm