Comments on: Thousands Line Up For Subsidized Housing

By: navymom

navymom — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:33:12 +0000

I’m confused. I was taught, by my parents, that slavery was a hideous thing. Television tells me it was all the “white man’s” fault the black man was enslaved, conveniently leaving out the fact that it was Africans that sold them to the slave traders to begin with, but that is a different story. Why then are many black people running with arms wide open, yelling and screaming, tearing each other apart, back to slavery? The Massa (Government) controls where you live, (Government subsidized housing, the projects), how much food you can have each month (EBT cards/food stamps), how much money you can have each month,(disability, SSI, Welfare or whatever government check you choose to sit on the porch and wait for), the standard of education you receive and we all know how poor that is in the inner cities so essentially he is keeping you too dumb to move out. Basically, Massa is controlling every aspect of your life and keeping you on “the plantation”. If slavery was so bad, why are they embracing it now? All of this is being pushed by so called black “leaders” such as Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, Obama, etc. If any of you reading this are black, please, I am interested in your opinion. I don’t mean this to be racist. I realize that not all who are on the government subsistence are black. I personally have family members who receive some of these “benefits”, although for the life of me I can’t see the benefits of this type of life. I am honestly concerned about this. Not only are you enslaving yourself, you are taking the entire country with you. I am constantly hearing the gap between poor blacks and rich whites is getting wider. Ever stop to consider that it might be because so many blacks (certainly not all) choose to live off what the Massa doles out? He only gives you enough to keep you coming back each month. He will NEVER give you enough to get ahead. Not only are you dooming yourself to a life of poverty, you are dooming you children, their children, and their children, etc.
As a white person looking in, I honestly don’t think your so called black “leaders’ have your best interest as their priority. Why then do they do this to their own people? Votes, power! They are using you to get what they want. Massa gets ahead off the backs of the “slaves”. You seem to be getting poorer and they are getting richer. Since the black leadership is pushing it so forcefully, I’m curious how they are going to blame it on the white population? Though I’m sure they will find a way. I already know how they will make the working population (of all races) pay for the “unfairness”….more taxes. That will lead to fairness? Once we are all taxed in to equal poorness, then that will be fair? I have a novel idea. How about we all work and earn our own way. It took a war to stop slavery in this country one time. Can’t it be stopped with common sense this time??? A rising tide raises all boats. An ebbing tide strands all boats. PLEASE!!! Wake up and educate yourself. Don’t enslave your self. Get off the plantation before it’s too late. Those who think Obama is their Messiah…. there are only a few short letter changes from Messiah to Massa!!!!!

By: Howard Roark

Howard Roark — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:05:13 +0000

Nice piece, PR.

By: Howard Roark

Howard Roark — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:03:27 +0000

But a minor detail that should have been mentioned in all of the reports, I think. Of course, you’re correct, SG. But how would that decision get made with the current crop of cowards and sanctimonious fools we know as “editors”, “program directors”, and “producers” in the offices of practically ALL of America’s newsrooms?

By: Howard Roark

Howard Roark — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:56:57 +0000

Honestly, just glancing at the pics on the Herald’s site…I first thought, “UN food drop for Haitian refugees.”

It wasn’t that encouraging for our society as a whole, methinks. How do you teach a person who refuses to learn the simplest of concepts like courtesy and “no pushing when you’re an adult”? For having been on this continent for 400 years, observing how these things produce what is known as a civilized society, one would think that more recent cultures/races to America would be far behind them, but it isn’t even close, is it?

Everyone here gets it, though. At least we aren’t alone.

By: rightrules

rightrules — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:37:25 +0000

Can’t…..the original deatbeats are STILL using them.
And probably will for at least another year!

By: rightrules

rightrules — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:36:47 +0000

Can’t…..they are STILL using them.
And probably will for at least another year!

By: jrmcdonald

jrmcdonald — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:08:52 +0000

Give these folks thoese FEMA trailers from Katrina…

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:42:05 +0000

“BTW, those last 200 hundred applications were probably reserved for Charlie Rangel.”

Good one!

But what this article fails to make clear is that the remaining applications were not passed out because the crowd had become too unruly and the police had to close everything down.

Which is pretty ironic.

But a minor detail that should have been mentioned in all of the reports, I think.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:25:57 +0000

“I thought this was a protest in the middle east, at first glance.”

What is odd (or maybe not so odd), is that photos of this are very few and far between.

There are none on the wire services. And very few on the local news sites.

Even though there was obviously plenty of video footage.

But if you go to the Miami Herald — linked at the top — you can see a slide show.

It’s quite appalling.

By: canary

canary — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:58:11 +0000

I thought this was a protest in the middle east, at first glance. My next thought was this will no doubt be on the front cover of middle-eastern news, warning middle-easterns of life in the U.S. What I would like to see is Americans come out in numbers and peacefully protesting for the next 4 years. Ollah Obama has halted Bushs measure for the right to have firearms in National Parks. Who is going to camp in a National Park, when the bandits wait til dark, slaughtering unarmed families. Ollah Obama is as the democrats brag working fast and swifter then any president. When Holden makes a historical statement that “we are cowards” it reminds me of the terrorists constantly calling their people cowards for not killing Americans. If we don’t keep up in speed, strength, and numbers, for the next 4 years, then we can expect a new America that won’t stand.

By: pinandpuller

pinandpuller — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:11:16 +0000

That looks like a perfect opportunity to film another zombie movie.

I remember delivering pizzas to the “projects” in Tennessee. Things really picked up the first of every month. Every door jamb looked like it had been kicked in at one time or another. But hey, everyone had a really nice car except me.

By: Icarus

Icarus — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:58:35 +0000

This is what the Miami Herald distinguishes as a line-up?

If this paper was at all concerned with truth; even in the slightest – as it is in this case; the headline line should have read…

Thousands in Fort Lauderdale jostle for shot at affordable housing

If the MH can’t be honest with trivialities even when our own eyes can discern; what are they in Business for?

Oh that’s right… never mind!

By: Colonel1961

Colonel1961 — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:58:47 +0000

Truly exquisite, PR. And worthy of print – hope you send it to your local paper, as well.

By: curvyred

curvyred — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:25:37 +0000

I thought that as well.

Everything is disposable to these people

I guess that is what happens when you haven’t had to work hard to provide for things for yourself and your family – nothing holds meaning or respect.

By: 1sttofight

1sttofight — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:07:33 +0000

If I had a wife and young baby to look out for, you damned right I would be out looking( and not just looking, FINDING) for a job( or 2 or 3) instead of a handout.

The world and the US TAXPAYER DOES NOT OWE YOU A LIVING.

Another thing, don’t get married and have kids until you can provide for them.

Grrrrrrrrrrr…

By: 12 Gauge Rage

12 Gauge Rage — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:52:54 +0000

If the selection process does indeed take months and years to let the applicants know they have a home, and these applicants are lazy enough to do nothing but wait for it to happen, then I say these people deserve nothing but the sloppy, mediocre seconds that life tosses their way. You will live in the reality you create for yourself.

By: GuppyNblue

GuppyNblue — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:38:53 +0000

I’m betting that the majority of these folks have no plan in life and will always expect a government handout. Unfortunately, I started life in the welfare wastelands and know that reality has little to do with what the media portrays. The harm it does far outweighs any perceived benefit. Right now I’m working two jobs and very grateful for them.

BTW, those last 200 hundred applications were probably reserved for Charlie Rangel.

By: proreason

proreason — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:29:31 +0000

“”It was crazy,” said Jacobs, who along with his wife and their 2-month-old baby, is basically homeless. “People were pushing. I thought it was unorganized.”

But I thought we elected an organizer to the Presidency?

Was he on vacation again yesterday?.

By: Rusty Shackleford

Rusty Shackleford — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:10:20 +0000

Careful…careful….you might get ol’ uncle Al’s attention with that “animals” reference.

But to answer your questions:
No, they cannot. And yes, I do remember and somehow, it all fits.