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Obama making bid to diversify wealthy neighborhoods
The Hill ^ | June 11, 2015 | Tim Devaney

Posted on 06/11/2015 5:12:49 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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To: MrB

This is part of his scorched earth policy for the next 18 months.

I sit on an advisory committee for capital improvement fund allocation in my little township. We met just two days ago, and one discussion was how it is not necessarily worth applying for and receiving grant money from the government to help fund projects. too many strings attached forever. so they can dangle that carrot, or threaten withholding funds, but it might not work. I’m sure we are not the first to figure this out.

The twp also has a very large apartment complex, which had a waiting list when it was built in the mid 90’s; it was THE place to live. A few years ago the complex decided to accept Section 8 tenants and has regretted it ever since. They draw more police visits than the whole rest of the township combined.


61 posted on 06/11/2015 6:43:01 AM PDT by kevslisababy
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

And so another agenda item being clicked off on his legacy.

He talked about doing this some years ago during a campaign stop.


62 posted on 06/11/2015 6:48:39 AM PDT by EBH (And the angel poured out his cup...)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I had gone over there and mentioned what about the gangs that are doing more killings in the urban areas.


63 posted on 06/11/2015 6:54:33 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: kevslisababy

Oregon is being threatenedby the Feds with a $140 million loss of educational funding over common core testing right now.We shall see what happens


64 posted on 06/11/2015 6:55:33 AM PDT by goodnesswins (hey..Wussie Americans....ISIS is coming. Are you ready?)
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To: kjam22

Prediction:

This Mr. Obama stuff is going to backfire.


65 posted on 06/11/2015 6:58:29 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: goodnesswins

of course, the states really have the upper hand if they want it, since the money the feds threaten to withhold came from them anyway.

I sure wish a couple states would turn the tables on the fed and $$’s


66 posted on 06/11/2015 7:02:15 AM PDT by kevslisababy
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To: barefoot_hiker

We got one recently in our working class neighborhoods. Fortunately, we raised enough of a fuss about it that they decided to go ahead and build it with the restriction that it be limited to residents age 55 or older.


67 posted on 06/11/2015 7:02:46 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Biggirl

I think so too...


68 posted on 06/11/2015 7:02:59 AM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Jealousy and envy?

Help them clean up their own areas.

Putting them in 'nicer' neighborhoods will not create utopias. It has been tried and it failed. That is part of the reason why suburbs were created -- people willing to move away, rather than be subjected to increases crime and violence.

This is another Liberal pipedream that looks good on paper, but fails when implemented. It has been failing since the 1960s.
69 posted on 06/11/2015 7:04:06 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

This will be, OF COURSE, targeted at “Swing” districts, to make sure they become permanently Democrat.


70 posted on 06/11/2015 7:10:35 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

This has been done before.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/american-murder-mystery/306872/
Doesn’t end well.


71 posted on 06/11/2015 7:19:42 AM PDT by SWO
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; CatherineofAragon
HUD and the Zero administration are conveniently using the long-standing problems of blacks and whites to create a way to house millions of muslim "refugees" in every city and town in the nation.

A Saudi firm just bought a large consortium of apartment complexes, and there is one three miles from where I live slated for Hope'n'Change.

72 posted on 06/11/2015 7:24:33 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("We've seen this before. There's a master race. Now there's a master faith." Benjamin Netanyahu)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Meet Karen Fitzgibbons, a 4th grade teacher out of Lubbock, Texas whose comment on an ABC News article on the incident has twerps furious and calling for her to be fired:.....”

I personally think her comments are completely inappropriate, especially for a teacher. She could have scolded the intruders for not following the law and their parents for not teaching them to follow the law, but instead she hit below the belt.

73 posted on 06/11/2015 7:31:09 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("We've seen this before. There's a master race. Now there's a master faith." Benjamin Netanyahu)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

So will we see any of this in those buildings rich leftists in NYC live in too?


74 posted on 06/11/2015 7:44:13 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: SMARTY
We have to make sure that crime, disease, violence and general squalor is ‘democratically’ distributed in ALL AMERICAN communities!

Is that ever true! We live in an HOA where we pay dues and have by-laws. When the economy tanked soon after Obama took office, people needing to move couldn't sell their houses promptly, so the Board eventually allowed renting. The helpful Democrat government soon placed a bunch of Section 8's into several of those houses.

Immediately, we had teen boys jumping over decks and looking in people's houses (one almost got himself shot doing that), broken glass on the streets, trash put out in unsecured bags blowing all over neighbor's gardens and attracting vermin, alcohol bottles and trash thrown into the forest preserve, thumper cars at all hours, speeding heedless of children or pedestrians, loud parties and illegal businesses in the homes, bringing unwanted traffic. Our dues have been quadrupled to pay for a "security service" and a dog-mess cleaner, since even suburban renters won't scoop, even though we have a dog park and several poo-baggie stations. And don't get me started on the state of the upkeep of those houses, which should be on the absentee owners. Those dues that were intended for improvements to the infrastructure are now a form of welfare taxation.

Nobody responsible even wants to serve on the Board any more, since any attempt at restricting behavior to the by-laws brings a raft of accusations of racism. You can't even complain if the meetings take place without notice, since the property manager is now a person of color.

75 posted on 06/11/2015 7:53:56 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("We've seen this before. There's a master race. Now there's a master faith." Benjamin Netanyahu)
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To: Albion Wilde
I know all about it. My parents lived in a modest working class neighborhood while I was growing up (1950’s-60’s).

Once old folks died off and their children sold their homes, we had the same situation.

It was never exclusive there, but those old Hungarian ladies kept their lawns and gardens like a picture. Nothing was new or fancy, but it was all tidy, well kept and immaculate.

Once we got the first minority family (and I MEAN the next day) three cars on our street had batteries stolen and lawn furniture shoved RITHT UP to the windows overnight.

It went down hill from there. That property was worthless by the time my parents moved out.

I am aware of what it is.

76 posted on 06/11/2015 8:04:25 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: tanknetter
Yes, I’ve lived under two HOAs and agree with your assessment. Rampant cronyism, and an emphasis on nitpicking stupid things to death (how DARE you replace a dead shrub without going through the Review Board!) while strenuously avoiding elephants in the room.

We had that issue too. In our case we ran for office and just took control of the HOA. Problem solved! (And community greatly improved!)

77 posted on 06/11/2015 8:05:19 AM PDT by The Duke (Azealia Banks)
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To: kevslisababy
I sit on an advisory committee for capital improvement fund allocation in my little township. We met just two days ago, and one discussion was how it is not necessarily worth applying for and receiving grant money from the government to help fund projects. too many strings attached forever. so they can dangle that carrot, or threaten withholding funds, but it might not work. I’m sure we are not the first to figure this out.

Bears repeating.

78 posted on 06/11/2015 8:09:35 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("We've seen this before. There's a master race. Now there's a master faith." Benjamin Netanyahu)
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To: Awgie
You can take the entitled, stupid, lazy, corrupt people out of the ghetto, but you still cant take the ghetto out of entitled, stupid, lazy, corrupt people

I was thinking something similar this morning as I read this article. A certain minority population seems to believe that "White" people are born with some sort of magic bean that gives them all kinds of privleges. The reality is that the way you live your life is the difference.

Get married, stay married, have children with your marriage partner, raise them together. This is the main divide. Yes, education and/or training is a great thing to do as well; but, a stable personal evironment makes one's life better.

They want what we have; but, refuse to do the things that will make that life possible. Just living next to my family is not going to do it.

79 posted on 06/11/2015 8:28:02 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I read, in one of the articles posted on this McKinney pool party mayhem, that the *event* hostess (in the park NEXT to the pool) and her mom are recent Chicago transplants.


80 posted on 06/11/2015 8:30:54 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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