Posted on 07/25/2015 1:46:24 PM PDT by Lorianne
For generations, working- and middle-class opponents of anti-discrimination laws have argued that more affluent whites support such laws without having to bear any of the costs.
Now, the Democratic loyalty of better-off white liberals will be tested by two recent developments: the June 25 Supreme Court decision in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. and the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s issuance of a new rule on July 8, “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing.”
Such a development has potential political ramifications. It may drive some middle-income and other whites into the arms of the Republican Party.
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Turn the Times Building into a homeless shelter.
Nobody is thinking this through. Lower income people need public transportation. They need more services for people who depend on government. Is all that going to be provided in these communities, too?
2) The federal government now wishes to give everyone in the white middle class a little taste of barbarity.
3) Question: Will people be glad for it?
Well, who paid for it last time?
Any more question?
Who will pay for all of this?
The middle class.
Karl Marx HATED the middle class.
He wanted them GONE.
Now you’re voting for a Marxist platform.
So you’re going to pay for poor people to move into your neighborhood and drive property values down.
The system works.
You made the mistake of thinking it was going to work for you. :)
Why do you think you’re suffering now middle class America?
It’s because you keep voting for it.
Yes and make the NYT foot all the costs.
That should resolve the issue.
Making some people’s housing cheaper through subsidies makes it more expensive for others.
The middle class. In MA if you are against “affordable housing” in your town you are an evil bigot and are treated as such (one notes such housing NEVER appears in rich towns and neighborhoods where the politicians live). In truth, most affordable housing fails of its own weight, but only after 20 or so years of slowly gutting the community. Everyone loses.
Rich white Liberals will still be able to buy off the local Liberal politicians to make sure they won’t be exposed
Perhaps the next step will be Federally-mandated ride-sharing.
Suburbanites commuting into the city, will be required to provide round-trip transportation to the Welfare folks... so they can panhandle, sell drugs, and whatever else they want to do in the city.
Because... Fairness!!!!
Almost all the whites who could moved out of Hartford after the 60’s riots. They went to the suburbs to get away from the criminal blacks that turned the once peaceful neighborhoods in Hartford into hellholes. Now after voting Democratic all their lives the Democratic Party is going to send the criminal class into their NEW neighborhoods. I hate to gloat but they deserve it!
A multi-million dollar per home community here called “Golden Eagle” had to meet the “affordable Home” requirement for all subdivisions. Can you imagine a 1,100 square foot $100,000 home sandwiched between two homes costing 4-5 million? The way they did it was to build condos near the entrance but with their own pools and facilities and no access to the gated and guarded community. Those condos were all sold at a loss. But GE has to keep them up as they can’t have a slum right outside their main entrance.
Leon county requires that 10% of any development be “affordable.” For an article, I interviewed a developer who had a whole community of one acre homes in the woods. He told me that he could have built and sold all $400k homes (during the bubble.) But because 10% had to be essentially 1,000 sq. ft. the maximum price was about $140k.
I lived in that development. Most of the problems came from occupants of those affordable homes. The people themselves were okay, but they’d have family members come to stay with them fresh out of prison. As an example, one of those robbed several homes starting with those closest.
The NEW ant and Grasshopper - two versions:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE OLD STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
MODERN VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.
CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green...’
Occupy the Anthill stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the SEIU group singing, ‘We shall overcome’.
Then Rev Al Sharpton’s assistant has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper while he damns the ants. The Reverend Al can not attend as he has contractual commitments to appear on his MSNBC show for which he is paid over two million dollars a year to complain that rich people do not care.
President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush 43, President Bush 41, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper’s plight.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview on The View that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn’t maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2016.
I’ve sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant and not a grasshopper! Make sure that you pass this on to other ants.
Don’t bother sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn’t understand it anyway.
1. 7 years? Really? I think it goes back further than that actually....
2. They’ve been at it for over a century. The middle class can easily be swept away at this point
3. “Minorities” yes...Libs yes. Gays probably. The rest of us hell no....
Making some people’s housing cheaper through subsidies makes it more expensive for others.
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A lot like obamacare/communism.
So what? Who cares what middle income Americans think or do? The immigration lobby will just flood the country with 30 million more legal and illegal immigrants from the Third World - almost all of who will vote Democrat.
It's time to realize unless the borders are plugged, illegal aliens sent packing en-masse, and an almost 100% hold on legal immigration from the Third World is instituted, this country is going into the dumper and will be just another Third World slum in 20 years.
“Perhaps the next step will be Federally-mandated ride-sharing.”
Or maybe free “Obama Teslas!”
“Turn the Times Building into a homeless shelter”
That’s a good idea, because it would have the Mexican Oligarch’s paying for something. Carlos Slim owns most of it.
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