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Why Should Anybody Work?
irish examiner ^ | 7/14/10 | Alicia Colon

Posted on 07/14/2010 4:30:54 PM PDT by Nachum

The young interracial couple moved into the garden apartments near my house, and, before long, neighbors were complaining about the noisy stereo blasting, the wild pot parties, and the gangster-type visitors to the complex.

Women expressed concern for the couple's young infant being exposed to the pot smoke and pondered calling Social Services to report them. Others warned against this, afraid of retribution by the couple's scary looking friends who were overheard planning a robbery with a handgun.

Homeowners worried about their property values further declining and blamed the landlord of the complex for accepting Section 8 renters. The landlord retorted that in this economic climate, he had no choice but to rent to government-subsidized clients. He'd been trying to sell the apartments for 2 years and couldn't find a buyer and reiterated that he had no choice.

(Excerpt) Read more at irishexaminerusa.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anybody; should; why; work
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1 posted on 07/14/2010 4:30:59 PM PDT by Nachum
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2 posted on 07/14/2010 4:35:28 PM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: Nachum

This scandalous pair was, at the least, married... weren’t they?


3 posted on 07/14/2010 4:35:33 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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In the world of the liberal, the only thing a person need contribute to society is a vote for a Democrat. In turn, the government will steal for them. The problem is the government is running out of productive people to steal from; that’s when everything comes unraveled.


4 posted on 07/14/2010 4:37:26 PM PDT by Spok (Free Range Republican)
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Spray painted on a locally owned business last Thursday night during the riots in Oakland:

SAY NO TO WORK

SAY YES TO LOOTING

After 50 years of the ‘War of Poverty’, this is the sumation of all of the ‘transfers of wealth’.


5 posted on 07/14/2010 4:41:06 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: HiTech RedNeck

The odds are against it.


6 posted on 07/14/2010 4:41:18 PM PDT by El Sordo (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
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Correct — and it is unraveling quickly.


7 posted on 07/14/2010 4:41:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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After 50 years of the ‘War of Poverty’, this is the summation of all of the ‘transfers of wealth’.

On average, it costs the American tax payers a total of $40,000.00 a year for each individual welfare recipient.
Millions of American WORKING taxpayers don't even make that much.

8 posted on 07/14/2010 4:45:01 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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“The mother at the garden apartments who had the struggling adult children kept asking me why anybody should work for a living just to pay for people who’d never paid a penny into the system.
Good question but one that I couldn’t answer.”

I can refuse to be a slave to the government and I don’t bow to any man.


9 posted on 07/14/2010 4:46:20 PM PDT by steveab (When was the last time someone tried to sell you a CO2 induced climate control system for your home?)
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To: Nachum
And after generations of this, you create a country of two legged bacteria with no self respect or any concept that there is any other life. After the infection kills the host, necrosis will set in and what remains will need radical surgery.
10 posted on 07/14/2010 4:52:02 PM PDT by Truth29
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I can refuse to be a slave to the government and I don’t bow to any man.

Yes, the government is using the tax payers as slaves. They work us, steal our wages, and give them to the do nothings who keep them in power.

Remember this next time you go shopping or work overtime - we can survive without their money, but they can't survive without ours.

11 posted on 07/14/2010 4:52:35 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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Some landlords prefer Section 8 renters. Their rent checks are guaranteed. A working person could lose their job, and the landlord gets stuck for the rent.


12 posted on 07/14/2010 4:54:39 PM PDT by P.O.E. ("Now who's being naive, Kaye?" - M. Corleone)
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Section 8 housing is poison.

Even if you don't live near it now, the governments (state and federal) want to move the vermin closer to you, because your neighborhood is "safer" and "nicer" than the hell holes that are already ruined by crime, decay, drugs, loud music, vandalism, vagrancy, illegitimacy, and sloth.

These are now "Section 8" apartments in Austin, TX.

Pretty soon, this complex will turn into a hell hole.

I loved the story of the "60 inch flat screen TV Lady" in Section 8 housing in New Orleans who wrote the Times-Picayune to complain about her free house.


13 posted on 07/14/2010 5:02:26 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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You posted the “before” pictures. Don’t forget to post the “after” ones.


14 posted on 07/14/2010 5:08:22 PM PDT by jtal
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Folks, if your city governments are thinking about allowing section eight near you, fight it like your life depends on it, because it truly does. There is NOTHING redeeming about section eight housing.

I know, I have pulled secondary in one for 11 years and its the only way to keep the weekly shootings and stabbings down.


15 posted on 07/14/2010 5:11:22 PM PDT by Molon Labbie
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Folks, if your city governments are thinking about allowing section eight near you ...

Instead, suggest that they move the section 8 housing to where the Mayor and the Housing Administrators own and live. Generally those areas lack the desired societal mix and they have so much empty space used up by lawns and ornamental plantings. /s

16 posted on 07/14/2010 5:31:51 PM PDT by SES1066 (Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
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To: Nachum

Wow. That is an excellent article. Deserves reprinting.


17 posted on 07/14/2010 5:33:37 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: Nachum
The young interracial couple moved into the garden apartments near my house, and, before long, neighbors were complaining

No offense, but I'd kill myself if I had to live in an apartment...Did that when I was young, and I hated every minute of it......Never ever again....

Middle class private sector apartments are nothing but civilian worker barracks. One mans floor, another mans ceiling...

I hate even visiting apartments....

18 posted on 07/14/2010 5:37:40 PM PDT by dragnet2
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Are you kidding. I love my apt. It’s quiet, roomy, and I only pay $340 a month. I don’t have to bother with maintenance or property taxes.


19 posted on 07/14/2010 5:52:45 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Mexico is the U.S. version of Hamas)
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Ya see, were we all have different priorities.


20 posted on 07/14/2010 5:57:44 PM PDT by dragnet2
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