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[Freeport]

Sharon in her Section 8 home!

Sharon Jasper has spent 57 of her 58 years dedicated to one cause and one cause only, and has nothing to show for her dedicated servitude...

She has lived in Section 8 housing all but 1 of her 58 years.. It was a legacy passed down from her parents who moved into Section 8 housing in 1949 when she was six months old. She has passed the legacy down to her children, but fears they may have to get jobs to pay for the utilities and deposits.

She laments about her one year hiatus from the comfort of her Section 8 nirvana, ' I tried it for a year -- you know, working and all. It's not anything I would want to go through again, or wish on anyone in my family, but I am damn proud of that year..'

Sharon was moved out of her St. Bernard housing project after hurricane Katrina and into a new, yet albeit, substandard quarterage. As can be noted from the above photo of her new Section 8 home, it is repugnant and not suitable for someone of Sharon Jasper's seniority status in the system. 'Don't be fooled by them hardwood floors,' says Sharon . 'They told me they were putting in scraped wood floors cause it was more expensive and elegant, but I am not a fool -- that was just a way to make me take scratched up wood because I am black. The 60 inch HD TV? It may look nice but it is not plasma. It's not a plasma because I'm black. Now they want me to pay a deposit and utilities on this dump. 'Do you know why?'

She has held her tongue in silence through the years of abuse by the system, but it came to a head at the New Orleans ' city council meeting where discussions were under way about the tearing down of the St. Bernard projects. When a near riotous exchange between groups opposing the tearing down of St. Bernard and groups wanting the dilapidated buildings torn down and newer ones built, Sharon unleashed verbal hell with her once silenced tongue. The object of her oratory prowess was an acquiescent poor white boy in attendance. The context of her scathing rebuke was, 'Just because you pay for my house, my car, my big screen and my food, I will not be treated like a slave!' and 'Back up and Shut up! Shut up, white boy! Shut up, white boy!'

Recapping from the mental log of the city council minutes in her head, Sharon repines, 'Our families have been displaced all over the United States. They are being forced to commit crimes in cities they are unfamiliar with It is a very uncomfortable situation for them Bring them back, then let's talk about redevelopment.'

Sharon directs the reporter's attention across the street to Duncan Plaza where homeless people are living in tents and states that, 'I might do better out there with one of these tents.' She further lamented her sentiments about her situation, 'I might be poor, but I don't have to live poor.'

Any wonder why this country is in the shape it is? Maybe we should all just chip in and get her the plasma TV she so richly deserves!

Remember to pay your taxes - Sharon needs your help

Spread the wealth!

[EyeGuy]

“Does anyone know if this is legitimate?”

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This PARTICULAR episode appears to be satire; it is written in slightly over the top style.

However, it most definitely represents a very REAL way of life for millions of ...ahem...”Americans”.

[EyeGuy]

“Does anyone know if this is legitimate?”

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This PARTICULAR episode appears to be satire; it is written in slightly over the top style.

However, it most definitely represents a very REAL way of life for millions of ...ahem...”Americans”.

[La Lydia]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/jasper.asp

Part fake, part real. There is this website called Snopes....

[GeronL]

This sounds like England where immigrants immediately get a “council flat” or a house even a mansion if its on the list.

Welfare is a way of life for millions.

[nmh]

Thinking back ... before GOVENMENT rewarded having children out of wedlock, the “parents” would atleast marry and family would try to help them make it work. When Government got involved in this situation, Dad would “live around the corner” from Mom ... while Mom collected her welfare check. He wouldn't marry her because the GOVERNMENT was the “bread winner” and assuming his responsibility. The more kids she had the MORE MOENY she made. After awhile, the guy wouldn't “live around the corner”. There was no point to it. GOVERMENT made the complete transition to being “Dad”.

Then ABORTION was legalized. At first they'd give them money to have an abortion. Now they just take off. Our taxpayer dollars may also be paying for this in Pelosicare.

[fr_freak]

"The 60 inch HD TV? It may look nice but it is not plasma. It's not a plasma because I'm black. Now they want me to pay a deposit and utilities on this dump."

Years ago I worked for a rent-to-own place. I learned more about the welfare program through that job than anywhere else, because most of the customers were welfare recipients who cashed in their welfare checks every month to pay for that big screen TV and home theater system. Guess who paid their rent? Meanwhile, I was a working college student who lived in an apartment with 3 other people, and we shared a second-hand couch with a portable TV sitting on a box.

[girlangler]

Okay, I remember reading a bonafied article in the “New Orleans Times Picyune” a year or two after Katrina hit, and seeing this picture. The woman was complaining about the free house someone put her into while the state was rebuilding public housing.

The woman was bitching about it being too small, and the toilet ran constantly or something. The NOTP of course turned it into a sob story and blamed it all on President Bush.

So the photo is real.

[nascarnation]

You can look up the % of illegitimate births (especially black ones) and see the inflection point when the Great Society kicked in.

Of course this sad condition just gave liberals more things to be “compassionate” about with our tax money.

[grateful]

About 8 years ago, my husband worked for a rent-to-own place delivering and picking up furniture/goods. He told me once he was out on a call and the residents of the home told him the welfare worker was coming by later that day to check up on them. They asked him to help hide their tv, the biggest tv he had ever seen. He politely declined and got out of there as soon as possible. LOL.

[TChad]

From snopes:

That photo plus quotes from Sharon Jasper lifted from that article ("I might do better out here with one of these tents") and from others ("I might be poor, but I don't have to live poor") were married to her outbursts at a New Orleans City Council meeting on 20 December 2007 ("I will not be treated like a slave!" and "Back up and Shut up! Shut up, white boy! Shut up, white boy!"), then worked into the satire piece quoted above. It's for this reason that we've given this item a "Multiple" status: While some of the elements portrayed in the spoof are fabricated of whole cloth, others aren't. And while most of the photos associated with the satire were taken from elsewhere, the first one, the one that shows a big screen television, is the real deal.

[x_plus_one]

There are twenty million unemployed yutes who will make somebody either a great army or a workforce.

[x_plus_one]

If the electricity should fail for more than a month there will be mass starvations and more. Estimates are that over a hundred million will die in the first six months should there be a breakdown in infrastructure.