Money For Low-Income Housing Spent On New Hummer

KIRO-TV, Channel 7, Seattle, WA ^ | November 20, 2006; 4:54 pm PST | Chris Halsne

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Same here. I went to pay my electric bill once and I saw at least a dozen people with IPods, jewerly, new LeBron James shoes, the works.....all bitching that they can't afford their "light" bill and requesting heating assistance from the government. It's pathetic.

[word_warrior_bob]

They work the system to death, that's what they know how to do, free money, just fill out the forms.

Add in illegal immigrants doing the same thing, not paying into the system but taking from it and you have mega billions. If you eliminated government waste and graft you would balance the budget plus billions in one year.

Then you would see the homeless segments on the news every night, just like under Reagan.

Mario Cuomo had New York at the point where almost half the population was collecting some kind of government assistance, when you have more non-taxpayers being able to vote for money from the taxpayers, what do you have?

[Old_Mil]

To tell you the truth, I'd rather live in a Hummer than in a housing project.

[RJL]

The Vancouver Housing Authority says it's executive director also drives the new H-3 for personal use, but per law, keeps track of that and pays taxes on it as a benefit.

Hey send over a new Cadillac Escalade, I'll gladly pay taxes on the miles I drive.

[Lancey Howard]

"I think if I had a choice, I'd rather put that down as a down payment on a house for all that money you're going to pay for a hummer."

Sounds to me like a government parasite arguing with welfare parasites over who gets the confiscated loot.
When it's all said and done, I want my money back.

[Kirkwood]

I rented an H3 for a week-long ski trip. It gets very poor gas mileage and is noisy as hell at highway speeds (you don't talk - you yell to have a conversation). Also hard to see out of it. It is good in snow, but I would rather spend that amount of money on a 4wd Lexus or Beemer.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

No joke, it's amazing how stupid people can be about this kind of stuff. The executive director must be on a hard power trip. If he had bought a nice mid-size car for around $22,000, got it in a color that isn't too flashy, leave off the shiny rims, and only had nice options inside the car, nobody would've cared. You don't fly under the radar by buying a Hummer. Frickin' idiot.

I hope he gets fired and does jail time. Knowing liberal Washington, it'll probably be chalked up to a lack of training that will be corrected by ethics training that the executive director signs himself off without attending.

[rottndog]

What?....Oh, my bad, wrong Hummer.

[Old Professer]

Do they make Hummers in Dark Chocolate?