NYCHA (New York City Housing Authority) is often in the news because many of the buildings are in horrible shape and crime-ridden. I watched an interview a couple of years ago where an older black women was standing outside a new gubmint housing project complaining that they were filling it with Asians while she was in the same dump in which she had lived for decades; the sense of entitlement that she should be able to live in one of the most expensive areas in the country at all was lost on her.
NYC is a dozen miles east of me; closer to home, Newark NJ has already demolished projects built decades ago and replaced them with “low-rises”, which is easier to police and thins out the population (much less capacity). Former residents of the big tenements whined into cameras that they had no place to go; they accepted no responsibility at all for their living arrangements. The dependence is complete, and disturbing; the Founding Fathers prevented people like this from voting with good reason. If they contribute nothing to the common pot, they should have no say in how it is spent.
These projects prevent any meaningful investment in or rehabilitation of cities, plain and simple; none has really recovered from the riots and looting of 50 years ago.
I recall years ago appearing to appeal 9 tickets for rental inspection failures although the work was completed, but three days late. I was ordered to pay $450. At the same meeting an old high school friend who got a $40,000. grant to fix up two 1 bedroom apartments. I told them that I would pay the $450. if they would assure me that the other person personally got the money. All laughed in the room, and then one commissioner said, “I guess that isn’t funny.” I made arrangements to go to jail for 45 days even though I was a court officer. Ultimately, the tickets were dismissed. The ticket writer still won’t address me when we meet. That was 35 years ago. Pricks.
Spot on analysis.
It’s amazing to see folks like you mention totally oblivious to self sufficiency and are proud actually, of being dependent upon taxpayer largesse. My very first “real” girlfriend’s dad was a “shell shocked” WWII infantry veteran who became an alcoholic and the mom was addicted to NyQuil.
They were on public assistance plus his meager veterans disability payments. They oldest son was the only gainfully employed one in the 6 person family, he was a professional burglar.
Needless to say me and my first “real” girlfriend drifted apart rather quickly. Fast forward 40 years to 2006, I’m sitting at my desktop when that gals memory flashed through my head, so I looked for her on Fakebook and sure enough, there she was.
Here’s the sick part, mom & dad long gone, brother still in/out of prison. She’s twice divorced has two adult children and 3 grandchildren who were of legal age AND the ONE thing they all have in common….
Welfare dependency. That’s 4 generations!
To me welfare is a form of a caste system, how else can you explain multigenerational government dependency? This should not be possible in America.