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Mass. targets smoking in public housing
bostonglobe ^
| April 4
| boston globe
Posted on 04/04/2014 9:15:54 AM PDT by Drango
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The fact is, poor people sucking on the government teat are also sucking on cigarettes. Clearly they have disposable income to spend on cigarettes....the rhetorical question is why aren't they putting those dollars to use on housing?
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posted on
04/04/2014 9:15:54 AM PDT
by
Drango
To: Drango
Agreed. If they want to smoke in their own homes, then let them GET their own homes.
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posted on
04/04/2014 9:18:34 AM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
To: Drango
Rhetorical question: They are also some of the best customers for high priced weed and cocaine as well. Would you deny them those “rights” too?
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posted on
04/04/2014 9:21:51 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: Drango
But if it’s marijuana, it’s okay
..
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posted on
04/04/2014 9:24:04 AM PDT
by
txrefugee
To: Drango
FR's own resident anti-smoker nanny stater.
The proper solution is to completely remove all 'state housing' and the associated theft (taxes) from producers that supports it.
/johnny
To: Drango
When politicians think they have nothing to do...they go after tobacco or children playing Cowboys and Indians with toy or imaginary weapons...or bowing and scraping to lobbies who might donate to their campaigns...finally taking away your freedom to do what is legal in your own home. All the while promoting perverted behaivor and smoking dope...s-o-m-k-i-n-g is a dirty word in their view BUT not legalizing dope i.e., marijuana. VOTE those hypocrites out of office.
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posted on
04/04/2014 9:25:42 AM PDT
by
yoe
To: Drango
“Coupe Deval” Patrick has made it abundantly clear that he's running for President.Victimizing “the most vulnerable among us” won't help him with the Rat Party base.
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posted on
04/04/2014 9:27:44 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(Stalin Blamed The Kulaks,Obama Blames The Tea Party)
To: Gay State Conservative
Victimizing the most vulnerable among us Wait. What??
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posted on
04/04/2014 9:32:06 AM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: Drango
Question is who are the “240 Housing Authorities” being given this directive? The owners of the government subsidized apartments?
Easy to imagine the State Gov making the property owner responsible for:
Getting tenants to quit smoking
And
Cleaning up the ventilation systems mentioned in the article
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posted on
04/04/2014 9:32:20 AM PDT
by
jcon40
To: Drango
Wait. What?? You clearly don't get to Massachusetts much,do you! Here in the Gay State those who live in public housing (including Osama Obama's illegal alien aunt) are considered to be victims of this despicable,oppressive nation.
To: Gay State Conservative
I suffer and pay penance by living in California.
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posted on
04/04/2014 9:42:44 AM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: Drango
Take away their smokes and they will have hell to pay.
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posted on
04/04/2014 9:44:24 AM PDT
by
dforest
To: Drango
Massachusett - $9/ pack
2 packs a day X 30 days = $540/month
That’d go a long way toward paying their own damn rent
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posted on
04/04/2014 9:48:32 AM PDT
by
digger48
To: Drango
“The fact is, poor people sucking on the government teat are also sucking on cigarettes. Clearly they have disposable income to spend on cigarettes....the rhetorical question is why aren’t they putting those dollars to use on housing?”
Another fact is, what are we going to do with all the people who can’t mind their own business? Because THAT seems to be the REAL problem we face. And chronically, at that.
I find, that people who cannot MYOB are far more offensive than a smoker could ever be. Why doesn’t the gov of assachussetts do something about the ‘squalor’ that many people in “projects”(let’s call them what they are) live in, rather than focus on smoking? It would be a far more respectable thing to achieve, I believe.
To: digger48
$540/month x 12 = $6,480 a year. YIKES
The funny thing is that there are a bunch of FReepers who believe smoking is a special class and untouchable. And apparently if the comments are to be believed, society (aka the taxpayer) should provide them welfare in the form of housing.
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posted on
04/04/2014 10:09:58 AM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: ourworldawry
I support drug testing to qualify for all welfare such as housing, food stamps, and AFDC. By extension, people spending money on cigarettes while their hand is in the public’s pocket is not something I support.
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posted on
04/04/2014 10:15:44 AM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: ourworldawry
I am with you. If they want to regulate what goes on outside of the individual housing unit, no problem.
I might be in the minority. As far as I am concerned, government has no business regulating legal activity inside a home, be it owned, rented, or a public housing unit.
I am sure there is enough illegal activity in and outside of the units to worry about anyway.
To: Drango
I’m an ex-smoker, but I don’t have any problem with anyone else who smokes.
I just find it a bit unnerving that smokers are banned in every other place that is run by the government, so why not the Public Housing that we are paying for?
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posted on
04/04/2014 10:37:27 AM PDT
by
digger48
To: Drango
But...but...but that would be (all together, now) RAACISSST!
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posted on
04/04/2014 11:09:30 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
To: Gay State Conservative
This is going to happen, get real. The harps in D street have more political drag than your average Government Slave.
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posted on
04/04/2014 11:15:04 AM PDT
by
Little Bill
(EVICT Queen Jean)
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