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Ken Peters, Peer Liaison for San Diego County through Recovery Innovations of California: I do feel the idea that homeless people with mental illness need only 'pull themselves up by their bootstraps' is ridiculous.

Christine Schanes: Homelessness Myth #15: Just Pull Yourself Up From Your Bootstraps Christine Schanes 2010

Ken Peters, Peer Liaison for San Diego County through Recovery Innovations of California: I do feel the idea that homeless people with mental illness need only 'pull themselves up by their bootstraps' is ridiculous.

Christine Schanes: Homelessness Myth #15: Just Pull Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps Christine Schanes 2010

Ken Peters, Peer Liaison for San Diego County through Recovery Innovations of California: I do feel the idea that homeless people with mental illness need only 'pull themselves up by their bootstraps' is ridiculous.

Christine Schanes: Homelessness Myth #15: Just Pull Yourself Up From Your Bootstraps Christine Schanes 2010

Ken Peters, Peer Liaison for San Diego County through Recovery Innovations of California: I do feel the idea that homeless people with mental illness need only 'pull themselves up by their bootstraps' is ridiculous.

Christine Schanes: Homelessness Myth #15: Just Pull Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps Christine Schanes 2010

Barack Obama has lifted himself by his bootstraps from the South Side of Chicago to be an intelligent and charasmatic leader.

Obama addresses rumors head-on at pro-Israel conference 2008

Hauling yourself up by your bootstraps is very difficult.

Up By Your Bootstraps 2000

Hauling yourself up by your bootstraps is very difficult.

Up By Your Bootstraps 2000

This same subtext about the need for the Iraqis to pull themselves up by the bootstraps was the chorus in almost all of the commentary last week.

Gordon Marino: Operation Self-Deception 2008

For Peru to pull herself up by her bootstraps will be a hideously long and painful process, especially when social planning must proceed under the handicap of such immediate pressures as I described.

The True Peru Ranly, Ernest W. 1976

Conservatives have so often cried "socialism!" that it's now nothing more than a bygone has-been of a warning - a cheap and lazy namedrop, a wilted way to self-identify as a bootstraps-and-heartland sort of citizen.

FITSNews 2009