Gotta say this about the Section 8 crowd

agc.com ^ | August 13, 2010 | Neal Boortz

[Flag_This]

"Ok, how about Soweto Used Tire salesmen?"

Again, mob versus unarmed individual, it's pretty easy to figure out who will win. Mob versus armed neighbors working together with interlocking fields of fire - I'll take that bet.

[Tijeras_Slim]

True, but those in the cities and other assorted “gun free zones” will be in for a world of hurt.

[outpostinmass2]

They only need to walk as far as the nearest convenience store to obtain, cigarettes, malt liquor and lottery tickets. They'll take cabs to see the P.O. and social workers.

Section 8’s don't move around all that much in the city either. Bus fare cuts into their vices too much.

[JrsyJack]

True, but those in the cities and other assorted “gun free zones” will be in for a world of hurt.

Then I suppose the phrase, "elections have consequences," will have more meaning to them. For the most part those gun free zones were put in place by their elected officials. If the rabid anti-gun libs in the Northeast are the first victims...oh well, guess we were right all along about that 2nd Amendment thingy...

[ScottinVA]

No cancer kills a neighborhood like Section 8 housing. Once it starts, the whole area goes downhill. I saw that running rampant in some neighborhoods around San Antonio in the 1980s. What once started out as vibrant, new, working-class areas in the early ‘80s, ended up as blighted ‘hoods by the time I left in 1988.

[PeterPrinciple]

will be nicer, until they realize they need a car to get everywhere.

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One of the things I notice is grocery carts all over the city now here in Ames, Iowa

[JrsyJack]

No cancer kills a neighborhood like Section 8 housing. Once it starts, the whole area goes downhill. I saw that running rampant in some neighborhoods around San Antonio in the 1980s. What once started out as vibrant, new, working-class areas in the early ‘80s, ended up as blighted ‘hoods by the time I left in 1988.

Same thing happened in parts of Philly...the responsible homeowners were driven out and the place looks like a third world country today.

[eleni121]

You forgot the calls from the police in the middle of the night...fires, obscenity, evil landlord epithets, “you’ll get your rent when I get my money from welfare” ad naureum.

[Polynikes]

I agree. The Zulu were a disciplined force that would have given the Romans a hard go of it. They pick the wrong area and it won't be Isandlwana rather more like Rorkes Drift or Ulundi

[meyer]

A friend of mine that has been in the rental business for many years once told me that you NEVER want to loan to poor people. He only rents larger homes in very nice neighborhoods, writes up strong contracts, and requires a good-sized security deposit. He keeps the riff-raff out.

Section 8 is the riff-raff.

[montyspython]

Or you tell them that they have to pass a credit check, that works as well.

[meyer]

They'll cut out the middle man when it comes to getting their stuff.

And the producers will be waiting...

[SamAdams76]

Looks like a casting call for the film version of an Ayn Rand novel.

[pingman]

Yeah, but it’s been a few years. Time has a way of smoothing over the high points of landlording life.

Like when the crackwhore’s brother tried to burn down the place after I evicted her a$$ (and wrote off 4 months rent; grrrrr...)

[eleni121]

Oh wow...No doubt you went through the ringer.

Yes...The landlord tenant relationship is frought with relationship problems.

[reformedliberal]

I bet that is the idea behind the push for light rail. There will also be government grants for increased and subsidized bus service.

Out here in the wilds of SW WI, the Section 8 grants are month-to-month. Report earnings above the cut off and no grant that month. Of course, we are 98.9% Caucasian.

[Nowhere Man]

Bad thread to read at lunch. This is disgusting and sickening and I wonder how we have fallen this far to support a permanent underclass that just continues to grow. Where does it all stop? Obviously the moochers believe the gravey train will never end but it must. What then?

Sorry to spoil your lunch there. The gravy train HAS to end, either if we as a nation wise up and make cuts or it will collapse. I shudder what the moochers will do. I joked at one time where we might have to play "M-Bingo," M-1, M-1903, M-3, M-4, M-14, M-16, M1911A1, M-1928, etc.... B-P

[Palladin]

True. And they hide their “man” under the bed.

[Palladin]

Lock and load!

[Cyber Liberty]

They merged their crime and Section 8 maps on a computer. You should not be surprised to learn that they overlapped perfectly. Section 8 housing meant crime, drugs and gangs. Just the culture you want spread into your neighborhood, right?

I am infuriated that the "social engineers" blew this easy call. I'm a friggin' lab technician and I could have told them this 40 years ago.

Simple analogy: You put two kids in a room, one clean and the other dirty. You end up with two dirty kids.

If you spread the ghettos around the city, you get one great, big ghetto.