Posted on 06/26/2011 1:24:04 PM PDT by bigtoona
CHARLOTTE — It was clear that Liza Jackson’s luck had changed when she drove her pearl-white Dodge sedan, the one with the huge pink plastic eyelashes over the headlights, into Pinebrook, an eight-year-old subdivision where residents tend to notice cars with huge pink eyelashes.
“There goes the neighborhood,” one homeowner said when she heard that her potential new neighbor had a federal housing voucher known as a Section 8.
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<< she has some characteristics of people who are “ghetto” >>
That’s for sure.
Vouchers, whether for house renters or schools, are a bad idea. Yes, of course, give ghetto people food stamps or low-income housing if they need it. But for God’s sake, don’t give ghetto people the funds to invade surburban neighborhoods.
Why, on the taxpayer dime, should we screw up surburban neighborhoods?
Yet another terrible idea from Mr. Sunshine and Cookies, Jack Kemp. This love-the-poor Republican invented compassionate conservatism before President Bush took the idea and blew a budget gasket.
From the article: “It’s guaranteed money,” said David Benham, who owns several rental properties and is a founder of the Benham REO Group, which sells bank foreclosures to investors in 35 states. “It has a great accountability program with the renters. I love Section 8. I wish every one of my properties was Section 8.”
Any bets that Mr. David Benham probably calls himself a conservative Republican too? The hypocrisy by some who call themselves conservative goes beyond the pale when they are milking the public dole themselves. They are socialists just as bad as the recipients getting their check.
And we, the working class have to be year long super-accountant in order to survive harassment by the IRS. Makes me mad as hell to see these freefreebees being handed out to the gimme class, and they just go to instatax for their e-handout.
The house across the street is available for rent again. The last neighbor was okay. Before that a parole officer. Before that gang bangers. Baby mama gang banger let her barely-walking baby run loose at 2:00 in the morning while she’s doin’ it with her latest dog in the front seat of his Caddy. When it looked like they were moving out, I called the rental company to verify it. I said, “Just tell me they’re leaving. Lie to me.” It turns out they were jumping rent. I broke out in hives. Every time I would call the police I’d let a lecture about their rights. We don’t have rights. We’re white.
In many cases this is exactly what has happened. The government moves Section 8 residents into nice neighborhoods. Then mama and daughter's roster of baby daddies move in. Followed by their "crew" of homeboys and homegirls (and the feral kids they've spawned). Loud music accompanied by 3:00 am driveway basketball games, fighting, parties, car break-ins, garage thefts, thugs walking abreast down the street blocking traffic, malt liquor bottles in the unkept yards, squad cars appearing more frequently, and on and on.
And there went the neighborhood.
I need a house. How do I get one of these vouchers? Do you get a Water Buffalo and rice paddie as well? I know it’s not saying much, but Water Buffalo are a lot smarter than the people running this country these days.
Living in a nicer neighborhood is something people EARN. For the government to dump less than responsible people in an area where residents have worked to have a nice, safe place to live is beyond outrageous.
How much longer are taxpayers in North Dakota or Texas going to pay for stuff like this? I defy anyone to explain to me how this program makes any sense.
According to what I have read, once you get the voucher, you have 5 YEARS to find a 30 hour a week job to Qualify. This is after you get your voucher.
The kicker is that the Charlotte housing authority won’t kick you out or stop your money if you either don’t get a job or work less than 30 hours a week. Its basically a lifetime benefit!!
Well, well, well. And people wonder why we are broke as we hand out 3 bdr, 2 bth houses to welfare recipients.
Section 8 should be eliminated because there is nothing in the Constitution that gives the feds the power to rob me at gun point in order to give a house to a leach.
Yeah this social munificence was a nuisance before we went broke. Now it’s killing the country.
No. I get nothing of value from my government. And why? Because I am hard-working and productive. That’s my mistake. That’s why I get screwed.
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great post!
...my Boss IS disabled. He could be sitting home all day. but he’s a libertarian with principles.
...and i’m a single Father with full-custody and an underwater mortgage. ...but i’m paying for HER voucher?!?
but as you said, it can’t last forever. they can’t sustain this even if they take 100% in taxes.
...it’s going to be an interesting decade...
“In many cases this is exactly what has happened. The government moves Section 8 residents into nice neighborhoods. Then mama and daughter’s roster of baby daddies move in. Followed by their “crew” of homeboys and homegirls (and the feral kids they’ve spawned). Loud music accompanied by 3:00 am driveway basketball games, fighting, parties, car break-ins, garage thefts, thugs walking abreast down the street blocking traffic, malt liquor bottles in the unkept yards, squad cars appearing more frequently, and on and on.
And there went the neighborhood. “
That’s exactly what happens. I’m for helping those in need, but not when they aren’t interested in helping themselves and being respectful of others. Too many are lazy slovenly trash who will surround themselves with like kind and who will sink any good neighborhood. You’ll see this happen regularly in good middle class neighborhoods but not in neighborhoods where the ruling elite live who get to make these decisions that ruin other’s lives. It never happens in their neighborhood.
I swear some of those ghetto cruiser vehicles have the sound way too loud. You can hear the thumping of the bass beat. Sometimes the thumping is so loud, you can see the car vibrate.
I hate to stop next to one of those at a traffic light. The music and bass beat is so overpowering that I can’t hear my own car radio.
“Yes, of course, give ghetto people food stamps or low-income housing if they need it.”
I totally disagree. Give them nothing.
“You know how many shoes you can put in there?” Sheena said. “I’m trippin’.”
Don't have a walk-in closet or enough shoes to fill one, but then again, I have taxes to pay.
This is why the grassroots rebellion has to start at the municipal and county level.
How to get good candidates to run at this level? I don’t know.
JUST CURIOUS - How do people with jobs & ‘children’ of working age qualify for Section 8 housing, or any subsidies?
The people that live in our current subdivision (we’re moving in a few weeks) got hosed on this. They (developers/builders) had top allow for a certain percentage of “affordable housing” which was of course, subsidized by the taxpayers through grants and the other homeowners, through inflated prices.
Now, a house that sold for over $700,000 just a few years ago is only able to fetch maybe $400k while the welfare recipients get the benes of the burbs without all the hassles of paying for it. Meanwhile a lot of the homeowners are faced with paying down a mortgage on a house worth close to 40% less than they paid for it or just walking away. We’ve had quite a few foreclosures but the apartments/condos are close to 100% occupied.
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