This kind of ham-handed social engineering is particularly harmful in urban areas where a delicate balance has been established that allows people from different groups and widely varying economic strata to live in close proximity to one another, sometimes only a block or two away. Destroy that balance, and you end up with Newark or Detroit, and then just try to integrate.
This is the kind of thinking that makes me embarrassed to be a liberal.
It's a pity more liberals don't think like that...:^)
True story-
A business associate lives in a suburb of St. Louis that is close enough to the chaos of Ferguson that he could hear some of the gunfire. He has a friend who has a government job helping poor people maximize their “benefits”. He was told that a woman with children can bring her “in-kind” benefits in the range of $45-50k/year which is close to median household income in the area. He has Section 8 housing nearby and sees “households” of multi-generational women who all share a single apartment and few permanent adult males.
His neighborhood had its first (successful) drive-by shooting recently.
This is the future that our progressive overlords are hell-bent to bring to more suburban areas, that are just too peaceful and too “normal”.
In other news, Obama recently announced that new public housing units should have solar panels to help make them more energy efficient and to help sales of solar panel equipment.
So, there you are. Every suburb will get its own solar-powered, taxpayer funded, mini-Ferguson enclave in the name of ecology and social justice.
Vote Progressive!
“This is the kind of thinking that makes me embarrassed to be a liberal.”
But how will he vote next time?