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cg487 · #1 05-18-2008, 10:08 PM

Public housing is a blight on any neighborhood it settles into. Pick up people with no common sense and very little desire to get educated, convince them that they are victims and it's not their fault, (in other words, make them liberals) and that they are only where they are because no one ever gave them enough and that they will never have to actually work!

Then what you see is what you get.

TylerH860 · #2 05-18-2008, 10:56 PM

Social conditioning.

Public housing=handouts.

If they expect things to be given to them, and choose not to work or educate themselves, most of the time they're not taught how to contribute and function in society. A $10.00 an hour job is easy to find, and low income individuals can get their tuition and LIVING EXPENSES covered to go back to school.

This is very obvious in the poor black community, as well as the white trash in my neck of the woods.

It makes Aristotle's idea of taking all children away at birth and raising them in boarding schools seem like not a bad idea. No one from Sparta expected or needed handouts.

Hatterasguy · #3 05-18-2008, 11:14 PM

I hate public housing. I would move you don't want to be within range of an assult rifle from that bleeding heart do gooder's mess. I have seen enough of it to know its no good.

Who cares where they walk, the fact that they are in your neighborhood is scary!

Up here in NE we are not friendly, we glare at strange people who walk up our streets.

kerry · #4 05-18-2008, 11:20 PM

I've lived here for almost 20 yrs. The building has been there the whole time. The recent renovation includes geothermal heating. I've known a number of people who have lived there who were decent human beings. They were not in the street walker group. A fair number of the residents were low income seniors.

Hatterasguy · #5 05-18-2008, 11:21 PM

Well maybe its different where you are but man the public housing in New Haven is like a 3rd world country.

Mr.Kenny · #6 05-19-2008, 10:03 AM

In our upscale quiet older neighborhood some of the sidewalks are crumbling, cracked or are uplifted by tree roots. Lots of people go out for walks in the evening and it is easy to trip on the sidewalk especially if you are speed walking. Thus the smooth street is is a much better choice. Lots of greenies, wealthy & fitness types. We all use the streets & sidewalks both for running , walking & cycling....Not much traffic.
Our neighborhood is known as the 1950's "leave it to Beaver, Father knows Best" 'Front porch sitting', 'Andy of Mayberry', 'Forth of July' with 'artsy hipsters' funky place to live;... we like it that way.
New is frowned upon; old is good.

Botnst · #7 05-19-2008, 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by kerry

Had a neighborhood meeting this morning. Conversation turned to a high rise public housing building being renovated in our neighborhood. It's about 4 blocks west of us. All the people on our block had noticed that when the building was occupied, residents walking down our street invariably walked down the middle of the street and virtually never on the sidewalks. (our street dead ends a few blocks away so there isn't much traffic). None of the neighbors at the meeting had ever walked down the middle of the street themselves instead of the sidewalk. I don't believe the public housing project is screening for residents who only walk down the middle of streets. We also noticed that conversation between the people walking down the middle of the street was always at a considerably higher decibel level than other people who walk down the sidewalks.
What's going on?

Not a phenomenon that I have seen.

Why not ask the walkers?

B

Medmech · #8 05-19-2008, 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Botnst

Not a phenomenon that I have seen.

Why not ask the walkers?

B

See #6 .... not a smart thing to do.

I know a smart ass that made a comment to a person crossing the street verrrry slowly and the perp crossing the street that they could also move very fast when provoked.

aklim · #9 05-19-2008, 11:10 AM

On my diesel truck, I have a chip in it. I can change settings on the fly. So, lets say I have it on the Econo mode, I can switch it to say the 140HP Aggressive tune. It throws lots of black smoke out which I sometimes use to blow at the clowns when I pass them. I am looking into getting cutouts so I can direct the smoke the way I want to.