[inquest]

Bill Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, and others seized on the New Orleans issue to blame the Bush administration for causing or exacerbating that city's poverty. This took an amazing amount of chutzpah, considering that New Orleans and Louisiana are longtime strongholds of their own political party.

Hey, it worked for that crowd in Florida circa 2000. They cited a Democrat-designed ballot as proof that Republicans were out to keep blacks from the polls.

[A. Pole]

The areas of high concentration of poverty are determined largely by the location of subsidized housing.

And by presence of public transportation. Many poor people cannot afford cars.

[river rat]

".....in America, poor inner-city residents are relatively close to downtown business districts, so they should have short commutes (to welfare office, drug dealer, bar and whores) and an abundance of potential employers (to shop lift, rob or loot as the opportunity arises) to choose from."

Semper Fi

[Desron13]

Great post. This is just classic. Socialists do everything in their power to hamper the basic mechanisms of Capitalism and then complain that Capitalism does not work and is unfair to the poor. In the mean time, they concentrate large groups of their easily brainwashed, poorly educated sheeple in areas where they can then get elected to positions of power. Thus the cycle continues. What a scam!

[Lorianne]

Great analysis

[Humidston]

From the article (for DU'ers who lurk here):

"...the 10 cities with the highest concentrations of poverty have Democratic mayors"
"...the 10 cities with the highest concentrations of poverty have Democratic mayors"
"...the 10 cities with the highest concentrations of poverty have Democratic mayors"
"...the 10 cities with the highest concentrations of poverty have Democratic mayors"
"...the 10 cities with the highest concentrations of poverty have Democratic mayors"
"...the 10 cities with the highest concentrations of poverty have Democratic mayors"
"...the 10 cities with the highest concentrations of poverty have Democratic mayors"

Now for you lurkers, is this quote clear enough for you??

[rfreedom4u]

.....against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

[q_an_a]

good post, too bad the RNC won't tell this story as part of an information campaign.

[Willie Green]

Inner cities are not "natural" locations for poverty.

Poppycock.
Poor people accumulate whereever they can find crappy, inexpensive shelter in proximity to resources where they can scavenge a meager existance regardless of whether the housing is subsidized or private, urban, suburban or rural. Take a look at Latin America... people live in shacks both in the cities and out in the jungles.

OK, so America located it's subsidized housing in the cities and France put theirs in the suburbs... so what?
I suspect those "decisions" have more to do with America's private tenament slums being able to survive two World Wars relatively unscathed while much of France was obliterated and had to be rebuilt.

This does not mean that I approve of subsidized housing... because I don't.
But the situation IS a bit more complex than simply stating that "inner cities are not 'natural' locations for poverty" -- because oftentimes they are. There are countless examples of crappy inner city slums throughout the world that exist without government subsidy.

[untenured]

The federal decision long ago to locate subsidized housing projects in America's inner cities prompted many lower-income people to relocate there or to stay there.

Since housing is a scarce resource, the flip side of this is that middle-income people move out. With them goes some, maybe most, of the stigma attached to such behavior as having kids out of wedlock, going for years without a legitimate job (even if you have kids to support), and general irresponsible behavior. Public housing projects, in other words, corrode the ability of shame to do its important work.