Another heartwarming slum-lord story!
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Myself and a business partner once bought a house in the ghetto of Detroit. The home was structurally sound but cosmetically awful. We bought it for $2000 case in 1986 or so.
We thought that by being good landlords, our tenants would be good tenants. Yea, of course we were wrong. They skipped rent, destroyed stuff, stole stuff, lit the place on fire etc. After the fire, we replaced the kitchen floor tile only to have it destroyed THE NEXT DAY. We sold out to a real slumlord.
From my experience in the slums like that, I have a very jaded attitude toward long term welfare recipients.
In a year of so with that job, I came across exactly one person who deserved long term aid. He worked in a factory and the owner absconded with the pensions funds. He was a producer all his life and through no fault of his own, was left with nothing. He deserved help. Those who live all their lives on a government check should be cut off and forced to make it on their own.
Michigan’s Governor Engler did that. Able bodied men on welfare were cut off. None died of starvation.