Posted on 06/27/2008 1:26:08 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
The candidate endorsed subsidies for private entrepreneurs to build low-income units. But, while he garnered support from developers, many projects in his former district have fallen into disrepair.
The squat brick buildings of Grove Parc Plaza, in a dense neighborhood that Barack Obama represented for eight years as a state senator, hold 504 apartments subsidized by the federal government for people who can't afford to live anywhere else.
But it's not safe to live here.
... Grove Parc has bvecome a private symbol for some in Chicago of the broader failures of giving public subsidies to private companies to build and manage affordable housing - an approach strongly backed by Obama as the best replacement for public housing.
... But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across Chicago had been built with local, state, and federal subsidies - including several hundred in Obama's former district - deteriorated so completely that they were no longer habitable.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Yep, heard that before.
People don’t value free. You get what you (we) pay for. This country is in deep doo doo if we’re seriously considering this assclown a “leader”.
LOL, yeah. Standard operating procedure. They can’t help it if we aren’t ready for their ‘vision’.
IOW, we can see that Obama doesn't give a damn about the poor. He only cares about his political supporters and buddies.
And will the libs cry out corruption a la Cheney/Haliburton?
Is that a crack about him being black? Black like Teflon is black? Are you a racist? See, the evil right wing hates Obama 'cause he's black!
(extreme sarcasm!!!) (but funny!)
How many people getting those funds are corrupt Democrats?
But, in this case, he didn't care about them at all.
He cares about his political supporters and his buddies.
All McCain needs is a photo of the run down neighborhood before Obama’s community action and then a picture now. Probably same squalid conditions, just a higher population density.
Wow... wonder if media actually looking into Obama is going to become a habit.
Is that a crack about him being black? Black like Teflon is black? Are you a racist? See, the evil right wing hates Obama 'cause he's black!
(extreme sarcasm!!!) (but funny!)
Barry is Silverstone.
Isn't he the one we have been waiting for?
Use of the passive voice. “They [the buildings] deteriorated.”
Not quite. The tenants treat them like crap because they have nothing invested in them. Screw ‘em up and let the government build more of them, maybe this time with bigscreen TVs included.
LMAO! He sure is slippery! Nothing sticks for long!
I forget the details but isn’t this similar to a Sopranos plotline during one season?
Obama: “Yes, that was the district I represented, but it's not the district I knew.”
Huh? What do those statements even mean? Take responsibility? I won't hold my breath. I'd love to hear an explanation, but I won't wait for that either. It's like the Dems all go to the 'Depends on the meaning of is' School of Public Speaking.
He was speaking about the fact Obama always wimps out and claims that the way things are now is not the way he knew them when he endorsed them I.E.: Reverend Wright for instance and his idiotic church, both of which Obama said that they were not the reverend he knew and not the church he knew and there are several other instances where things were not the way he knew them. Just weasel words on his part to deny responsibility for his actions.
Did you know that Obama was a "community organizer"?
Emulate tone of "Did you know that John Kerry was in Viet Nam"...
Does this investigative reporting piece amrk the beginning of a stealth counter-attack by She Who Shall Not Be Named?
My betting would be "Yep!"
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