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Riot Breaks Out At Housing Assistance Event In Metro Detroit
CBS Detroit ^ | Jan 12, 2013

Posted on 01/12/2013 4:03:25 PM PST by Iron Munro

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To: umgud

They ain’t worth $10,000, considering the neighborhood you’d have to live in. (or become a HUD home landlord and milk the system.)


61 posted on 01/12/2013 5:47:57 PM PST by dynachrome (Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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To: GeronL
state sponsored bare knuckle blood sport...
62 posted on 01/12/2013 5:49:21 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: hoagy62

All I can speak to is my personal experience with Section 8 housing in my city. The vast majority of the people who are in section 8 houses do NOT take care of the homes. Grass never cut. Cars parked in the yard. Toys, trash strewn about. Adults sitting outside smoking and proficient in the use of the “F” word.

As a realtor I have seen this repeated over and over and over. Once one house goes section 8, others follow suit and then the people who are home-owners start seeing their property values fall as more and more unkept homes litter the neighborhood. It is a vicious cycle.

So YES, section 8 housing can be incredibly destructive to a neighborhood and destroy the value of middle class tax payers largest asset, their home.


63 posted on 01/12/2013 5:51:36 PM PST by Josa
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To: Iron Munro

Cleveland has a drawing. Apply online or fill out an application at the library. Not sure when they got smart about it but I can see why.


64 posted on 01/12/2013 5:52:43 PM PST by neefer (Because you can't starve us out and you can't make us run.)
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To: Graybeard58

-— A simple way to do it... ——

It’s government. “It’s the way we always do it.”


65 posted on 01/12/2013 5:52:55 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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To: Chode
this is exactly what they want or else they would of make everybody send in an APPLICATION then do the lottery and have the winners come in for an INTERVIEW where only the truly needy would get a voucher and draw new names for as many as didn't make the cut, repeat as necessary

Guess who the government employees are.


66 posted on 01/12/2013 5:53:12 PM PST by Iron Munro (I Miss America, don't you?)
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To: Michael Barnes

So, when the AmRev2/CW2 happens, we should just raid the county housing offices, find the records of all Section 8 recipients and systematically shoot them, just to be rid of the ‘undesirables’? Or are these people already on people’s ‘list’ for immediate extermination when the balloon goes up?

Your kids are important, no denying that. My kids are being stolen from too.

The vibe I’m getting is that, if TSHTF, it’s open season on welfare/Section 8 recipients...no matter the color. Am I correct? If I’m over-reacting or drawing the wrong conclusion, please correct me. I’d love to be wrong.


67 posted on 01/12/2013 5:55:37 PM PST by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: Iron Munro

Ursula Burns kin!


68 posted on 01/12/2013 5:55:50 PM PST by BOOHA
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To: Iron Munro
three guesses and the first two don't count, right?
69 posted on 01/12/2013 6:07:01 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: hoagy62
The vibe I’m getting is that, if TSHTF, it’s open season on welfare/Section 8 recipients...no matter the color.

I think by definition when TSHTF there won't be any money for recipients. They'll either starve, steal, or find a moral way to make their way.

70 posted on 01/12/2013 6:17:57 PM PST by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: Iron Munro
Star Lee, of Romulus...


71 posted on 01/12/2013 6:20:34 PM PST by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: GeronL
This is normal for Detroit, isn;t it?

Actually, this is small potatoes for Detroit. They had something similiar a few years ago in downtown Detroit at Cobo Hall, with the mob being about ten times the size of this. What was being given out were applications for a lottery of about 500 housing subsidies. At the far end of the "jungle grapevine", it was "Obama is giving $5000 from his secret stash to anyone who shows up".

Some just robbed other people standing in line, or selling copies of the application for $50. Street gangs were unable to establish a truce among themselves while waiting in line. It took reinforcements from some of the suburbs, mounted cops, and judicious use of OC spray and tasers to calm things down.

By moving this event towards the edge of Detroit, they at least cut down the riot by a factor of 10, which I guess can be considered a partial success. :)

72 posted on 01/12/2013 6:29:43 PM PST by 300winmag (Overkill Never Fails)
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To: L,TOWM
To be fair, about 70% of african-americans in the US are in the middle class (or better) and receive little in the way of public support.

That's not a statistic I have ever seen. Are you sure about that?

If, in fact, that is true, why don't they do something about the problems in their inner city communities?

73 posted on 01/12/2013 6:30:37 PM PST by ladyjane (For the first time in my life I am not proud of my country.)
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To: L,TOWM
since prolly 70% live in the cities, i kinda doubt that number... your source?
74 posted on 01/12/2013 6:47:57 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Lancey Howard

“The animals won’t go rural”

If they do it will be a short, one-way trip.


75 posted on 01/12/2013 6:49:57 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: TonyInOhio

ROFMAO! Very funny, Tony. Best humor of the week, possibly the year...so far! Thanks.

/FR with a laugh...

LOL :)


76 posted on 01/12/2013 6:52:30 PM PST by PGalt
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To: ladyjane

“...why don’t they do something about the problems in their inner city communities?”

Because they always fall for the Democratic Party line, and vote in Democrats.


77 posted on 01/12/2013 7:01:54 PM PST by SatinDoll (NATURAL BORN CITZEN: BORN IN THE USA OF CITIZEN PARENTS.)
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To: Iron Munro

RIP Detroit.

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78 posted on 01/12/2013 7:15:48 PM PST by Mears
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To: Iron Munro

And every 2 weeks our paychecks enable this trash to riot. It’s sad how far we have allowed our “masters” to manipulate us pee-ons.


79 posted on 01/12/2013 7:28:57 PM PST by radioone
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To: Chode; ladyjane

The most definitive recent study was based on the US census and reported here: http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/p60-243.pdf

With average household income greater than 32,000, and assuming a standard bell curve distribution, this puts 70% of african americans over the poverty line, the thresholds for which are here: https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/data/threshld/index.html

The number I did screw up on was the total number of african americans in the deoendent underclass which is closer to 16 million. My apologies for that, but I would still assert that 2/3rds of the nation’s 43 million african - american citizens are not dependent on the government for their food and housing.

We may quibble about defining “middle class”, but in my opinion, if you are not in poverty, that puts you somewhere in the middle or better.


80 posted on 01/12/2013 9:02:22 PM PST by L,TOWM (No one in the US is free of the spirit of entitlement)
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