not slum???
Posted on 01/14/2008 7:18:24 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
LAREDO, Texas — The Texas Attorney General's Office sued landowners in Webb County, accusing a couple of violating the state's colonia-prevention law.
The suit, filed in district court in Austin on Jan. 7, accuses John R. Daves and his wife, Leonor, of selling three residential lots east of Laredo without installing or bonding for water and sewer services as required by state law.
The law is designed to prevent the sale of residential lots in border areas without basic utilities. Such sales have led to so-called colonias, low-income residential communities where unsanitary conditions can result from lack of electricity and running water.
The Daves are accused of selling three parcels in 2005 and 2007 for $26,675 to $34,000.
The Attorney General's Office is seeking a permanent injunction preventing the sale of other lots and fines up to $45,000 for the three sales.
A message left at a number listed for the Daves in Laredo was not immediately returned Monday.
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Obviously the fine isn’t high enough. Yet another little neighborhood full of illegals that the state and federal government will have to go in and retrofit with water, sewer and roads, helpfully subsidizing the “developers.”
Coming to a town near you - a Third World shantytown
not slum???
Such neighborhoods would provide some shelter to those Americans whose services clearly aren’t worth the minimum wage. The Lost Angeles Times recently reported that 60 million Americans each subsist on less than $7/day, a level of poverty commonplace in Third-World countries. Think of it this way: life in a small shack without water, sewer, or electricity still provides a place to stash stuff and some shelter from the global-warming-induced brutal cold wind and rain. It’s a significant step upward for the tens of millions of homeless Americans, mostly anonymously toiling in the most meager of industries, doing whatever they can to get money in this deeply depressed economy.
Okay. I call BS on those numbers. I’d say that article was garbage. 60 million Americans equals 1 out of every 5 Americans. $7 per day equals $2,555 per year. Even if it’s one person supporting four others in his family, that only raises the annual take to $12,775 (minimum wage would bring in $12,168). Not counting govt. aid, the Earned Income Credit for such a family with such income would be over $4,700 a year.
Please, there’s no way one out of five Americans (legal or illegal) is living off that level of income.
The LA Times says 60 Million! The numbers do not add up at all there. Prove it. Let us see the data not just some leftist blather with numbers pulled out of his arse.
Global warming induced cold...! OMG! My first degree was in Meteorology and I got to work with some of the finest while working DoD stuff. We all still shake our heads at this drivel. If it is global warming then the “brutal cold” statement is a laugh. You are obviously not in complete tune with your liberal counterparts as they have started to switch to “climate change” as the new catchphrase. By the way, the climate changes all the time and we will never be able to stop it from doing so.
With “tens of millions of homeless Americans” and a “deeply depressed economy” I ask again show me the numbers. They do not add up as your number would put us at 10 percent or so, and that would include EVERY citizen including children! Subtracting them, your bogus number would get us to the 20 percent mark and the numbers out now actually are around four percent unemployment. The lame excuse about all those that have just dropped off the unemployment rolls add up to a near statistical zero, so do not go there either.
I do not post much and this is my first post refuting someone but I cannot stand to see bogus numbers thrown around by people either because they do not know the truth and have facts or they are deliberately trying to mislead people to further a dangerous agenda.
It’s true that I don’t see that proportion of the populous in that level of impoverishment in my everyday life. But then again, I live in a very prosperous Oklahoma, where thanks to low taxes, most adults even among the poorest of the poor can get at least one half-time minimum-wage job (or equivalent) and transfer the earnings therefrom to disposable income rather than taxes. I assume that California and most other states must be suffering mightily.
Even so, I didn’t call them the Lost Angeles Times (note Lost with a “t,” not Los) for nothing. The media over the past several weeks have served up a surprisingly huge proportion of incredulously bogus stories, and the classification of this statistic to the “bogus” pile would not surprise me.
Not to worry. As soon as Mrs. Clinton is elected, all those poor souls will move into the middle class and the homeless will disappear once more, as they did when her husband was president. The only time you hear about poverty in America is when there is a Republican in the White House.
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