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(Message started by: deltadarlin on Mar 13^th, 2008, 8:49am)

Title: The United Nations and their insanity
Post by deltadarlin on Mar 13^th, 2008, 8:49am

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/02/un_experts_hud_disagree_on_hou.html

I just love this! It really makes a lot of sense to me! Sure, go ahead and put your non-tax base back in the city first. Once they are there (maybe they could sell tours to visit the projects?), I'm sure people will come flooding back to New Orleans!

Even before Katrina, these housing projects should have been bulldozed and rebuilt.

Title: Re: The United Nations and their insanity
Post by fubar on Mar 13^th, 2008, 12:29pm

I watched an HBO special about this, so I am an expert. Plus, I slept at a Holiday Inn Express.

Racism is alive and well, especially in the South. The fact that they are destroying perfectly usable housing *right now* is pretty disturbing. The basic laws of supply and demand dictate that the price of housing *must* go up in the area. So many houses were destroyed by the disaster, the value of usable housing has doubled or tripled, at least. So, if you *had* affordable housing and now they are tearing it down (for good reasons that are unrelated to the disaster) you can't help but feel 'screwed by the system'. There is no way to get through to these folks. When faced with a logical argument as to why this must be done, they instantly go to the racism card. It is a sickness, this pervasive attitude of entitlement.

A lot of the folks I saw on the TV were saying 'I've lived her for 40 years and...blah blah blah"

FFS, 40 years? That's not what was intended by any means. People have been born and raised in the projects and that's what they call 'home' and they have NO INTENTION of letting go of such a great free handout. Can they see how they are perpetrating a life of poverty and racial division? Do they care? NO! It's all about what is being 'taken' from them, as if they owned it.

I sick and tired of paying for shit like this. And I'm sick and tired of hearing the race card played as a blanket accusation when the very next day, those same people would use the race card to whine and moan about how 'the man' keeps them in these run-down projects.

Amazing how these folks will FIGHT to remain poor and FIGHT to remind us to be racist, lest we forget that we owe them handouts to make us feel better about the tremendous guilt we should have over actually making something out of ourselves.