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To: KeyLargo
President Obama is not a fan of America’s suburbs. Indeed, he intends to abolish them.

And he publicly said his plans are working. Unemployment is skyrocketing, yet he claims things are going well and in the right direction.

Everything IS going well, and things ARE going in the right direction..... if your goal is socioeconomic destruction.

23 posted on 08/05/2012 8:37:16 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: concerned about politics

Obama Wants To Move The ‘Hood Into Your Neighborhood

October 27, 2011

By Policy Issues Institute 8 Comments
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section 8 housing Obama Wants to Move the ‘Hood into Your Neighborhood

As part of its endless quest to fundamentally transform the United States, the Obama administration is laying the intellectual groundwork for a massive new government program: moving crime-prone tenants of public housing into middle- and upper middle-class neighborhoods in the name of improving their health.

Last Thursday, the New England Journal of Medicine published a multi-year study conducted on behalf of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) researching the impact of “housing mobility” on the health of those in public housing. The project, which tracked 4,500 “very low-income” families, found that allowing the poor to move from the projects to “low-poverty neighborhoods” decreased the incidence of both disorders and improved the families’ overall health.

Upon hearing the results, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan lamented, “Far too often we can predict a family’s overall health, even their life expectancy, by knowing their zip code.” Secretary Kathleen Sebelius of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) chimed in, “where you live can be critical to your health.”

For an administration obsessed with Nanny State health initiatives, increased welfare spending, and waging war on the affluent, the next step is not hard to anticipate. President Obama has already requested $28.6 billion for Section 8 housing vouchers in Fiscal Year 2012, fully 60 percent of HUD’s budget...

http://www.westernjournalism.com/obama-wants-to-move-the-hood-into-your-neighborhood/


56 posted on 08/05/2012 2:18:55 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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