Posted on 10/05/2004 6:04:56 AM PDT by OESY
The next time you see rats roaming around public housing units in New York City, think of Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. He and a handful of his colleagues in other states are working hard to make the city's public housing safe — for rats, mice, cockroaches and other city "wildlife."
Working with a collection of green activists, Spitzer and five other state attorneys general recently announced that they might sue the feds for using pesticides in public housing — poor, minority families living in vermin-infested buildings not withstanding.
The AGs claim they want to promote "integrated pest management," which just means using a variety of means to control pests — including pesticide use. But these taxpayer-funded "consumer advocates" seem more interested in their own irrational quest to eliminate chemicals.
Advocating the opposite is the National Organization of African-Americans in Housing (NOAAH) — a nonprofit consumer-advocacy group promoting healthy housing for minority groups. The organization explains ...that proper use of pesticides can help control health problems....
[N]early half of the nation's poor children live in housing with dangerous pest infestations....
...Doctors in a Los Angeles Hospital... tallied the number of rat bites they treated over a three-year period and found that all the patients were either Hispanic or African-American.
Nagami says that rats, which are carriers of more than 70 diseases, commonly bite the faces and hands of children under 5 years old while these kids are asleep in their homes.
The thought that many American children find themselves literally in bed with rats chewing on their faces or that cockroach allergens send children gasping for air to hospital emergency rooms is sad enough. But the fact that taxpayer-funded legal "advocates" are positioning to deprive poor, minority children of a key line of defense against these horrors is simply unbelievable.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I am convinced that Eliot Spitzer is Lucifer himself.
This man has a history of nothing short of disasterous actions towards his fellow man.
We need a pesticide for liberals.
Sometimes the IGNORANCE of the left is simply breathtaking.
Maybe you should capture the critters and mail them to his house so he can keep them safe.............gross.....
Time for a mega-ping.
The solution to ridding public housing of vermin is to rip these units out of the hands of government. Then rename these units "condominiums" and sell them to the residents for ten thousand dollars, or whatever the market will bear.
Now you have private property owners who will take care of the property they own. The units will get painted, faucet leaks will get fixed, the rats will be exterminated, and the human vermin, both bureaucrats and criminals, will be barred from entering the buildings as these private property owners hire guards and build gates to keep them out.
Government is the problem here, not the solution.
spitzer wasting NY tax dollars........
My hard drive is going out and my ping list is on that hard drive. The ping list will be down until I get my hard drive problems ironed out. Was a brand new hard drive too.
I guess they didn't read the study showing that cockroaches are the main cause of inner city asthma.
No way!
Jeeeez and I thought it was from smoking crack......
BTTT!!!!!!!
As I recall, it was Shitzer who wanted to close down Crisis Pregnancy Centers in his state. I guess his philosophy is "Kill Human Babies; Right to Life for Rats"
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