Posted on 06/11/2015 5:12:49 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
It’s happening in suburban areas of Houston. Affordable housing complexes being squeezed in to somewhat affluent areas. What’s next? Cars and country club dues to go with?
By all means, lets spread government spawned misery equally across the land.
That’s not how 0bie and the Libs see it. They have a RIGHT to cool down in your pool ~ as it all goes back to swimming pool segregation. That’s the meme that all of the lefty hosts are using, anyway.
Excellent post.
I'm not sure liberals have thought this through either. For example, Malibu if full of rich liberals... some very vocal and left-leaning Hollywood types like Barbara Streisand.
I wonder how it would fly if they started building low-income housing in the middle of Malibu.
I'm not sure liberals have thought this through either.
That's the main reason conservatives get blamed for everything.
1. Liberals propose a new, utopian program, without thinking through it.2. Conservatives, accustomed to planning ahead, point out the inevitable downsides and ask for scrapping of or revisions to the proposal.
3. Liberals, who still haven't thought through it, "feel [criticized, oppressed, targeted, etc] and defend the proposal, calling conservatives "bigoted."
4. Proposal is rammed through by liberal double-dealing and lies, assisted by complicit, lying media hysteria and demonization of conservatives.
5. Everything the conservatives feared comes true; liberals blame conservatives because, after all, they asked for revisions, and the failure is "clearly" the fault of the revisions. Or, failure is because conservatives tried to block it, because they are bigots, and bigotry made everything turn out badly, just because! Or...[insert your choice of lies and excuses here].
Spot on.
Not enough $$. There is NEVER enough money for ANY lib utopian plan.
At some point a Republican president will have to deal with the national debt, which is over $18 trillion now. He/she will have to make some hard choices, make cuts to programs and so on in order to save the overall economy. That president will be hated and mocked for doing so, and no one will ever blame Obama for his contributions to the problem.
My wife has been asking that very question for years. I used to laugh at her and tell her that was absurd.
I no longer do.
I was thinking that when reading SWO's excellent link in post 71, about the regrets of two academics who studied the results of the Section 8 scheme that saw cities tear down projects and disperse the poor to neighborhoods all over the cities, which resulted in new crime patterns that are harder than ever to predict, prevent or police. What struck me was the complete lack of planning, programming and funding for the social needs of people thrust out of poverty into a middle-class area with middle-class behavioral expectations that the migrating poor would prove unable to meet. It was, pardon me for saying so, like invading a Middle East country and expecting them to adopt democracy.
One of the most stupid stupidities of the progressives is their conceit that it is only money that separates the poor from the rich. They recoiled in horror from the "cultural imperialism" of Christian missionaries in the pre-welfare era going into troubled or impoverished areas and trying to teach a religious ideology of humility, responsibility, respect, hope and love. Now, progressives push their ideology of consequence-free sex, child neglect, baby-killing, entitlements and victimhood, and cannot see that they are destroying the people they think they are helping. And that's just the do-gooders. The callously uncaring elites fully understand that the do-gooders are merely serving the elites' purposes of capturing Democrat votes.
Spot on.
Notice that George considers moving the poor people into the rich neighborhood as payback for their rejection of his studio. Novel idea once used by Texas monied class that bought a Hyannis Port home near the Kennedy's compound and installed a poor black family, anyone remember how that turned out?
I foresee a lot of empty units in that complex until they go full subsidized housing.
The first thing I thought of when reading the headline and article was :
.... those pool party crashers.
BTW, that neighborhood in McKinney —is— racially diverse already.
Because they are White people.
Sssh! Don’t give them any ideas.
“Wonder how long it’ll be before Obama starts ordering single family homeowners to give up their spare bedrooms for “poor families?”
Shooting for the lowest common denominator here.
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