Here’s all we need to know about this problem: “Wanzina”
I here tell, the road to hell, is paved...
Check out the Norman Rockwell-type family portrait of the needy family at the link. (It’s a little difficult for me to post the picture from this computer).
“the city’s director of the Economic and Community Development Department”
I remember how wildly I laughed at an editorial by Paul Krugman where he complained (and I can only paraphrase his idea not his exacts words) how in the past (some bygone era) taxpayers were not so stingy at funding the “basic services” of state and local government.
As the title above shows: If ONLY they were simply providing the “basic services” they were intended to provide (and, I might add, not paying lavish benefits to provide them).
My point was about “basic services” of government, as such “basic services” were once understood and practiced - public safety (police and fire), local courts, local roads (and in some cases trash pick-up services), sewer and water systems, local public schools, building permits - FIN.
Problem is, even with all the "packages," not enough people can qualify for the financing and the city is too stupid to know how to rent them.
City Housing Authorities generally know how to do "Stupid" very well and are usually manned (and womanned)top to very large bottom by amazingly stout Affirmative Action Ani who are licensed to steal.
So why are factory workers in Minnesota required to pay federal taxes to build homes for someone in this community?
Did I miss something; is this in the Constitution?