Michelle exposes a welfare scammer
Posted December 22nd, 2007 at 10:25 PM by Jon HamShe also exposes a newspaper copy editor covering up the woman’s racism with bland language in a photo cutline. Read the whole thing.
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December 23rd, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Now, THAT is something! Unfortunately, there are many like this woman, who are content to be a parasite on the rest of the world, especially the taxpayers. There does not seem to be any physical defect that keeps her from being an “activist,” actively sponging money from the taxpayer. It is my experience with the projects and other free or subsidized housing is that it breeds attitudes like the one displayed by this woman. Supporting a system like this, providing free housing or anything else for people who are merely too lazy to work, is nothing more than legalized theft from the taxpayers. If someone is crippled, than I think that we have a Christian duty to help them in this regard. But we have not the duty to support the merely feckless. Let them get a job and provide for themselves. Or not, as they choose.
The sort of a ruckus that occurred at the New Orleans city council meeting that is shown on Michelle’s Blog came close to happening in Durham a few years ago. Click HERE to see it. It was a similar pattern: In June, 2003, the Durham City Council, faced with a budget shortfall, was going to raise the bus fare by a quarter. A similar sort of crowd appeared as it did at this NO council meeting: A crowd of angry, unruly, and indignant people who did not think that THEY should have to pay for their own bus rides.
They stopped the process of Bill Bell presiding over the meeting and conducting the business at hand by shouting and acting uncivilized and being unwilling to wait their turn for other business to be transacted. Bill Bell got so mad about it that he walked out of the meeting, accompanied by several Durham Police Officers. (I was there to speak on behalf of the Police Benevolent Association, but I would up on the Council platform, between the mob and John Best, Jr., trying to think up strategies in case it degenerated a tiny bit further into the chaos that was displayed in New Orleans.) The meeting was eventually resumed after the crowd calmed down a little bit, and extra police were called down to the council chambers.
Here are some lessons from all this:
1. The taxpayers do not owe everyone a living, free housing, extra-cheap bus rides, or anything else, just because they happen to draw a breath.
2. Most people who are given free government swag are NOT thankful or grateful for this largess.
3. The government as a whole does an awful job of building and managing housing. At all levels, government should get out of building housing, and leave it to the private market. If they really want to help, they could get rid of many of the regulations and taxes that artificially raise the cost of private concerns building housing, which is one of the main reasons that there is not as much low end housing in some areas as there might otherwise be.
I hope that New Orleans goes ahead and puts the wrecking ball operators on overtime, to get this over and done with. And please don’t re-build them on a darn flood plain!