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'Ghetto Bus Tour' Showcases Chicago Projects
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Posted on 07/22/2007 3:10:58 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver
...public housing high-rises...Sounds like a Marxist utopia.
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posted on
07/22/2007 3:12:21 PM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
(Sic Semper Tyrannis * U.Va. Engineering '09 * Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Democrat * Fred in 2008)
To: Sub-Driver
Yep, most of the high-rise housing projects are gone, but not the gangs, whose main business is selling drugs. Last estimated count for gang members in Chicago was over 50,000; or 4 for every 1 Chicago cop. Makes you feel real nice and safe, doesn’t it?
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posted on
07/22/2007 3:15:16 PM PDT
by
john drake
(Roman military maxim; "oderint dum metuant," i.e., "let them hate, as long as they fear.")
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To: Sub-Driver
From National Lampoon’s Vacation:
Clark: We can’t close our eyes to the plight of the city. Kids,.... you noticing all this plight?
*gunshot followed by a scream*
Clark: Roll ‘em up!
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posted on
07/22/2007 3:18:40 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
To: Sub-Driver
The story doesn’t say when they were built, maybe as part of President Johnsons Great Society, or maybe before.
The Great Society was one of the most successful government social programs in our time. I can’t think of any with a greater success rate, which is nearly 100%.
It’s goal was the destruction of the Black family. The results speak for themselves.
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posted on
07/22/2007 3:21:15 PM PDT
by
Balding_Eagle
(If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
To: Sub-Driver
BET is now part of VIACOM!
Robert L. Johnson sold out is now socializing with rich, white Democrats in Martha's Vineyard.
To: rabscuttle385
You’re quite right. And if you look at them, they are identical in appearance in every way to the massive apartment blocks that went up in cities like Moscow, East Berlin and Warsaw during the Stalin years (and later).
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posted on
07/22/2007 3:30:14 PM PDT
by
Virulas
(I am the lion of the courtroom!)
To: Sub-Driver
And on the left you'll see my friend Shaqueeliama's dad.
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posted on
07/22/2007 3:30:24 PM PDT
by
SoldierMedic
(Rowan Walter, 23 Feb 2007 Ramadi)
To: Balding_Eagle
They were completed in 1962.
It was more like a lab experiment than a neighborhood. Build miles of big, anonymous concrete buildings, pack them with the poor and uneducated and watch what happens.
To: Balding_Eagle
So you think that Johnson is responsible for the poverty,low levels of literacy, and high crime rate of blacks?
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posted on
07/22/2007 3:49:17 PM PDT
by
ladyjane
To: ladyjane
LBJ may have believed he was helping to support families but the Great Society created incentives to damage families, home life and the middle class. You might argue that the Donks didn’t want to create a massive dependency but that’s what they did. Today, they’re proud of it.
To: Sub-Driver
The failures of the Great Society.
To: Sub-Driver
[cue the “Good Times” theme]
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posted on
07/22/2007 4:18:49 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
("Dynomiiiiite!")
To: john drake
Yep, but “da Mare” has done a pretty good job of keeping them South of Cermak and west of Halstead.
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posted on
07/22/2007 4:20:01 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
To: stm
“Hey Beckie,pack our extra clips-we’re goin’for a bus ride!”
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posted on
07/22/2007 4:44:20 PM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(That was a hell of a thing!)
To: ladyjane
So you think that Johnson is responsible for the poverty,low levels of literacy, and high crime rate of blacks?It's a toss up between LBJ and William Douglas.
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posted on
07/22/2007 5:01:36 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: Sub-Driver
Tell me was there shown a before and after picture of this area? I’m sure it wasent built this way! Someone had to make it this way mmmmm. I wonder. You make the bed you sleep in!
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posted on
07/22/2007 5:05:09 PM PDT
by
ronnie raygun
(I'd rather be hunting with dick than driving with ted)
To: MediaMole
and watch what happens.
A few years later you drive by and every floor has burned out windows.
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posted on
07/22/2007 5:07:50 PM PDT
by
Recon Dad
(Marine Spec Ops Dad)
To: Recon Dad
Most of the people on the East coast live in older housing than those projects. Stop making excuses for those people.
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posted on
07/22/2007 6:06:45 PM PDT
by
ClaireSolt
(Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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