Posted on 04/30/2015 8:27:05 AM PDT by Rusty0604
your attempt to try and offer a better life to someone was seen by God.
They don’t feel like it’s theirs because it isn’t.
It belongs to those of us generous and hardworking enough to provide it, and a simple “thank you” would be appropriate.
Not necessarily too stupid, but too lazy and too strong a sense of entitlement.
Yeah, I never wanted to pester my landlords about piddling stuff either—though it sometimes depends on the level of rental you’ve got as to whether they want you fixing stuff up yourself.
The more I think about his statement, the odder it seems.
When I rent a car, I tidy it up before returning it.
When I rent a hotel room, I tidy it up before leaving.
When I lease a car, I wash & clean it like my own.
I do these things because
- when I’m using it, I’m the one who has to live with it
- when I return it, I recognize it belongs to someone else.
What puzzles me is this mindset of “it’s not mine, so I can - and should - treat it like crap, ensuring it is garbage when I’m done with it.” It’s like they feel _compelled_ to wreck things.
This person just swerved in one of many problems with communism. No incentive structure
I just moved into an apartment. It is mine as long as I live here and I treat it as such. Those people are nuts. They simply do not care.
People are just figuring this out?
That be actin' white.
Though harsh in your post, you are correct here 100%, everyone in my family had to move at some point heck we even lived in Europe for a couple of years, and yes I had parents that came from the “hood” and they never went back and are property/land owners and nearly retired now, and if I was in that place I would get out even if I had to join the Marines, cut my self off from that “hood”, assimilate in my new area and never ever go back there.
Whatever you do, don't spill the secret that when white people are alone, they give each other stuff for free.
Entitled people don’t value anything because they don’t have to work to pay for it.
Oh, darn it, too late....admin can you delete that prior post. ;)
BTW, the 20,000 figure is a fraction of the actual number of people in government subsidized housing in Baltimore. They are not including all the privately owned Section 8 units which dwarf that number. Just saying, if home ownership is somehow an important key in solving the problem, the problem is way bigger than 20,000 people in Baltimore’s Public Housing Agency run facilities.
Precisely. Let’s force banks to make loans to people who are extremely unlikely to be able to make payments. Ahh, the pride of ownership. How proud they will be when the get foreclosed.
I’m not convinced that they don’t realize it. I think they know full well.
“don’t spill the secret”
I won’t tell them about the massive underground tunnels either and the free utilities. Oops.
Yes. A hand up, not a handout. I was listening to a local conservative talk show years ago. A man called in and he temporarily lived in public housing with his wife. He made a point to always turn off the lights in unoccupied rooms of the apartment. His wife asked him why he was turning off the lights. He replied to reduce the electric costs. His wife said they didn’t have to pay for it. The man looked at his wife and said SOMEONE had to pay for it, though. Too many on the government take are like this man’s wife. It’s not theirs and they are not required to pay for it, so they do not care.
Make public housing clean, efficient, durable and Spartan with the amenities. If the residents can afford a big screen TV and other high-dollar trappings, they can afford their own place to stay. Just my two cents’ worth. Rant over.
Another glaring example of the “Tragedy of the Commons”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0vmP7HoFI4
If people own property they are invested in it and will take better care than if they feel they don’t own it.
Squatter Nation: 5 years with no mortgage payment
http://money.cnn.com/2011/06/09/real_estate/foreclosure_squatter/index.htm
Then the gov’t will sue the banks for giving loans to people that couldn’t afford it even though the gov’t forced the banks to give the loans. That, after the taxpayers that are actually paying their bill are forced to bail out the banks. The gov’t keeps the money won in the suit.
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