Posted on 08/16/2010 8:49:59 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Some things need to be said about the mob that showed up to glom some applications for Section 8 welfare housing in East Point this week, and I’m your guy — the (ahem) author of The New York Times best-seller “Somebody’s Gotta Say It.”
My experience with these Section 8 “clients” goes back to the mid-1970s when I had a law office at the First National Bank building in Decatur. It was my misfortune to occupy an office down the hall from the Decatur Housing Authority. Being a quick learner, I figured out I needed to be somewhere else on days the authority was accepting applications for Section 8 housing. The hallways would fill early with ... we’ll call them “applicants,” just to be nice.
After experiencing that unruly mob, I wasn’t stunned to learn of the behavior of the East Point Section 8 crowd.
(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...
My first job as an independent metal roofing contractor was to build an awning and facade on a strip center in Arlington, TX. One of the tenants was a storefront for processing applications and delivery of food stamps. Twice a month the parking lot was filled with women waiting in line while their boyfriends had beer enriched reunions as they struggled to keep someone’s kids corralled in the cars and others circled looking for open parking spots. This was in the heat of summer and I was having an impossible time finding legal workers. I was sure that someone in that group would ask if I was hiring, especially after I put up a big sign on the roof above the food stamp office, but no takers. I did get a couple of complaints when my sweat dripped on the hood of cars, but not ONE request for a job.
And the day is quickly coming, when a landlord will not be able to opt out of Section 8, lest they get sued for discrimination.
My boyfriend owns several rental properties, and he refuses to accept Section 8.
Nevertheless, some of his tenants exhibit the same mentality as you describe, particularly in the area of financial fecklessness and baby production.
lol
Sometimes I get sick of Beck’s smarmy emotionalism.
time will tell, I guess. Give it 6-12 months of not being able to walk everywhere, or the money it takes to get some where, there may be a mass exodus as leases come up, and desperate owners of rentals in the city drop rent?
Holy Crap!
I went to the Giant Market on Food Stamp Day once (never again). Four of these moochers swooped down on the meat counter and walked out with $800 worth of beef steaks and roasts. All they had to do was swipe their Moocher Cards.
I stood there amazed and forlorn with my package of turkey hot dogs.
Just a bunch of polite folks wanting their freebies...paid for by those of us that
actually work and pay the taxes that support these freeloaders.
And the day is quickly coming, when a landlord will not be able to opt out of Section 8, lest they get sued for discrimination.
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You know, I’ve spoken with various people who have become landlords with all this cheap property around. They told me that having tenants with section 8 was good because it was an “assured” way to make sure they got their monthly rent.
The problem comes when the tenants leave and the repairs eat up all of the profits...and then some.
Remember that each of the babies produced by a Section 8 tenant (the moocher) will make that tenant ‘richer’ and will make you (the producer, or moochee) poorer. There’s profit in them there babies!
Agreed!
If you get something for free, it has no value!
Me too. I love what he’s doing connecting things and teaching true history, but dang if sometimes I feel like he just isn’t getting it...or worse, doesn’t have the balls enough to tell it like it really is.
when this story broke, a politically incorrect FReeper wondered aloud if the same 30,000 people would line up if someone were offering 62 minimum wage, entry-level jobs.
Rhetorical question, I know. But still one worth asking.
Had a section 8er family two houses down. Honestly the grandmother (a 40 year old decent looking black woman) tried like heck to raise her drugged out daughter’s kids, but it proved to much and in the end the rental turned into a flop house for crackheads.
So true, so true...
The military bases its housing and substinance allowances for personnel in 2 brackets: “with dependents” and “without dependents”. Doesn’t matter how many dependents you have.
What’s good enough for military families should be good enough for welfare recepients!
Liberals keep them down and dependent, and blame their misery on eeeevvvviiillll Whitey - but then grab all Whitey’s hard earned money and give it to people who vote democrat.
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