Posted on 12/21/2007 6:11:09 AM PST by TornadoAlley3
Ted Jackson / Times-PicayuneSharon Jasper sits in the living room of her voucher-backed private residence. "I might be poor but I don't like to live poor. I thank God for a place to live but it's pitiful what people give you."
Sharon Jasper, a former St. Bernard complex resident presented by activists Tuesday as a victim of changing public housing policies, took a moment before the start of the City Hall protest to complain about her subsidized private apartment, which she called a "slum." A HANO voucher covers her rent on a unit in an old Faubourg St. John home, but she said she faced several hundred dollars in deposit charges and now faces a steep utility bill.
"I'm tired of the slum landlords, and I'm tired of the slum houses," she said.
Pointing across the street to an encampment of homeless people at Duncan Plaza, Jasper said, "I might do better out here with one of these tents."
Jasper, who later allowed a photographer to tour the subsidized apartment, also complained about missing window screens, a slow leak in a sink, a warped back door and a few other details of a residence that otherwise appeared to have been recently renovated.
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Then get off your fat, lazy ass and get a stinking job and quit relying on handouts. You are an example of the scum who sits on their asses and does nothing for themselves and whines. You have a 40-50 inch big screen TV, hard wood floors, looks like oak cabinets behind you, IN YOUR SLUM. Go to hell.
When were you in my house? LOL
I find this most offensive:
“I might be poor but I don’t like to live poor. I thank God for a place to live but it’s pitiful what people give you.”
newsflash lady...you DO NOT LIVE POOR. As a matter of fact you look as though you live above a standard that many in this country don’t. Nice TV by the way. I will trade you mine.
What!!She has to pay her own utility bills????
She be outraged!!!
No it's not a plasma, it looks more like a 70" LCD. Oh the horrors.
grrrr.... hard labor- 10 years
AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGHHHH! You pathetic parasitic loser.
“... I thank God for a place to live but it’s pitiful what people give you.”
Yes it is. The politicians in NO gave us ungrateful parasites such as this sorry example.
Maybe there’s no roaches, so it just doesn’t feel like home.
If you teach a man to fish, he will eat for life. If you give a man a fish, he will complain that it is too small, or the wrong kind...or that you have a nicer one.
Her place is nicer than mine!
“I might do better out here with one of these tents.”
In AMERICA, the “Poor” have 60 inch TV’s...
Aw c’mon King, it’s been done already!!! You just provided an excellent synopsis of my Economics I term paper from 1986!!
Too bad no one read it!
If you teach a man to fish he needs graphite reels, boats, coolers, six-packs, depth finders, global navigation systems, nets, hats, lures, bait, buckets . . .
: )
Regarding this story, someone in another thread yesterday put it this way:
If private charity provides a need for a person the giver is ennobled and the reciever learns humility and gratitude.
If public entitlements are given a sense of entitlement is created.
The fact that she let the photographer in tells me she actually believes what she is saying. That’s the acary part.
We've been thinking about a new TV, but our 12 year old Toshiba still works well enough.
We've been thinking about replacing our cabinets, but we have this silly $1200 a month mortgage payment that comes first.
And when something squeaks, leaks, falls off, or breaks we don't have a landlord to whine to until it gets fixed. We've got a Mod 1 Mark 1 Lurker who gets whined at until it gets fixed.
I'll tell you something. This b**** is lucky I don't live in her neighborhood because I'd be considering waiting until she was at one of her little 'protests' to engage in my lifes first ever act of arson....
Do these people realize just how ignorant, ungrateful, and selfish they look when they spout this crap? I mean if I were looking for a way to turn almost the entire population against these people I doubt I could come up with a more unsympathetic individual if I hired an actor.
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Just out of curiosity, does anyone know what all that crap is on the left side of the photo—the pink stuff?
If you people will elect me president, my first act will be to cut the Federal money spent in New Orleans by 95%.
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