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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Yeah. I hope her plight makes front page above the fold across the nation.
“If that’s the TV stolen from my house after Katrina, it doesn’t work.”
That lady isn’t poor her freaking TV is better than mine and I work my a$$ off. Damn socalist parasites. F#$% the poor.
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What's wrong with this sentence?
I’m a black female, 50-ish. Everything you said was spot on. When I was young it was still shameful to be pregnant out of wedlock. The civil rights era had changed opportunities for blacks and young men were eager to go to college, to get the better-paying jobs that were now open to them. When redlining stopped, folks wanted to take their families to pleasant neighborhoods to live out the American dream just like anyone else.
Now you’ve got ‘who’s my baby’s daddy’ on Maury, cop-killer rap lyrics and the glorification of thug life, people who’d rather get a lifetime government handout and live in a freakin’ slum than get up and get a job and live somewhere nice.
I’ve had it. I’m tired of people living on the government dole forever and I’m tired of hearing about these Katrina bums who, 2 years later, not only still can’t go to work, but complain about the private and government charity that they do get. The gall of this woman to sit up with a huge tv and compalin about what was given to her.
I’ve been working hard for 20+ years, and I don’t own a big screen TV.
Everyone lives off of me, better than I live. Jeez.
They're paying the poor people to watch it FOR them.
Give a man a log, and he's warm for an hour. Set a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.
You are a great mind! I’d vote for someone that could do this.
Oh, I don't know about that. You might be warmer though. Stop, drop and roll does not work well in hell.
Hardwood floors, Oak cabinets, decent paint on the walls, overhead lighting. Looks like a real hell hole to me.
Wait a minute — one or two of those units don’t have sat-TV — time for a riot!
That’s no plasma or LCD. It’s just a giant rear-projection big screen TV
Michelle Malkin has a great compilation on this parasite http://michellemalkin.com/
http://pursuingholiness.com/2007/12/20/a-war-in-new-orleans/
Sharon Jasper admits to 57 years of living off govt dole. She is 58.
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