Posted on 11/12/2015 4:03:56 PM PST by sparklite2
"We have a responsibility to protect public housing residents from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke, especially the elderly and children who suffer from asthma and other respiratory diseases," said HUD Secretary Julian Castro.
The housing chief said that the rule would protect over 760,000 children and save an estimated $153m (£100.5) in healthcare costs, repairs and preventable fires.
His sentiments were echoed by the US surgeon general, who shared his concerns about second-hand smoke.
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Do they mean dope too? How racist.
Next:
CANNOT OWN GUNS.
Just wait.
And I’m sure that at these places there is a FAR ABOVE AVERAGE need for self-protection.
Oh, right, take away smokes from crazed, angry thugs who prey upon others - particularly the elderly and women and children. What could go wrong, Bloomberg wannabees?
No Obama’s Choom Gang and Administration is there to help you get your Medicinal Marijuana whether you have a medical condition or not.
Like....those people are going to tell anyone they have guns...let alone cigarette’s...
Hitler would’ve loved the U.S. of today.
Hitler was the first to ban smoking in public.
The White House by definition is “public housing.”
Get that cig out of the Lyin kings mouth.
This will go over about as well as a cement cloud.
I am not a smoker but I detest the anti-smoking NAZI’s
Best anti-smoking song ever.
https://youtu.be/0uC465mktCk
I love the chorus “Light up a fag and take a drag”
Someone’s going to have to find a way to get them to the polls if they can’t give out a carton of cigarettes as an enticement.
I like it. Since I don't think the government should be in the "public housing" business, I think this will be an impetus for people to get out of public housing.
It will also acquaint people with what "Nanny State" government feels like on a very personal level.
I don't see a down side for this. Yes it's statist, but it's being statist to the very people who need to be upset with government control over their lives.
Maybe they will learn?
I am not a smoker, never have been. I tried to become one when I was 15, but my body was having none of it. I considered it a message from God. But, my mother and father, and all of my siblings were smokers. I took the Army position: smoke ‘em if you’ve got ‘em. I want nothing of some Nazi making those decisions for me nor for anyone else I know.
Smoking is a stupid decision, but in the land of freedom, you ought to have the right to exercise your liberty within a reasonable restriction of ruining the enjoyment of my meal.
I did not know that. Thanks for informing me.
Well Bath House Barry, no smoking anything in the Rainbow Hut....LMAO....
Years ago I read a letter responding to British Complaints about the U.S. putting conditions on US Aid to Britain after World War II. The British didn't like some of the conditions.
I still recall the letter writer's response to that:
"If you don't like our apples, stop shaking our tree!"
If you are living in government housing, you need someone else running your life for you. You obviously can't do it yourself, and you are, in effect, a "Ward of the State."
I'm fine with the idea of putting onerous rules on people who suck on the public tit. Maybe it will induce them to grow up, get up, and get a job.
Benjamin Franklin said it this way:
"I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."
"Freedom" is for Free people. If you want freedom, you shouldn't be a ward of the state.
You should not venture anywhere near the campus of the University of Missouri at Columbia. If they find out what you are thinking they will rip you up from body and limb and your pieces will be cast into the bonfire.
You must submit to the intellectual superior beings. Perhaps they will allow you to continue in life, albeit in a totally subservient state.
But propose that these same welfare leeches be drug tested as a condition of getting welfare, food stamp and public housing and listen to the howling on the left.
Now that is very funny!
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