Is that all you have? Taking care of kids and George Jefferson moving on up?

Now that we've discussed this, how about picking up a dictionary? Covered in grafitti, of course.

No, we have grammar errors as well. The word is correctly.

And sorry, but I don't consider posting a story, from the Huffington Post no less, and then thumping your chest and saying "yeah" to be an "arguement," much less an argument. :rolleyes:

No, what I have a problem with is people who get banned from forums and feel the need to come back under new usernames simply for the purpose of trying to start some sort of political debate. Like I said before, get a life.

I live in a really great neighborhood, by the way. I'm willing to bet it's a lot nicer than yours.

/hijack
k_s, love your siggy.

Wait, you mean they aren't grammer errors?

Damn these kids and unemployment :(

Maybe if you had spelled it correctly, it wouldn't have been such a problem.

Go away madmax, before someone finds hazing porn written by you.

If you live in a great neighborhood then it probably is not subsidized. Like I said, subsidized housing destroys neighborhoods.

:D

Please give specific examples of schools with 15 full time police officers and name the dozens of neighborhoods. It would help with your argument to give specific facts. Otherwise, it's just your opinion.

I actually live in a great neighborhood with subsidized housing. So your argument falls kind of flat.

http://www.sadtrombone.com/

(I'm really sad I didn't find this sooner... could have come in handy so many times...)

There was a successfully integrated housing complex in either Chicago or St. Louis years ago. It worked because residents could not tell (so they claimed) whether their neighbor was middle class or poor.

It proved what many of us already know, which is that poor neighborhoods are run down and criminogenic, not because of the failed efforts of the majority of the residents. Given better living and crime fighting resources, poorer neighborhoods do not differ that much from high income neighborhoods. Law abiding and tax paying citizens generally want the same things regardless of whether they can afford it.

Things like this work in small doses. Despite the shock value of it all, it will most likely be implemented in small doses and to very little fanfair.

This society is class and race segregated by chance (city planning, districting, schooling/zoning, etc.) and by choice. It is impossible to impact the chance without interfering with the choice.

Do you live in subsidized housing?

^^ Please don't forget my request for specific examples.

Have you learned how to spell yet?

You mean he has to back up his claims? Egads.

Don't get sensitive. As a generalization, his argument is accurate. The majority of neighborhoods with subsidized housing are undesirable and the people who live there do not do so by choice.

This is because of the correlates of poverty such as unemployment that are pervasive in these neighborhoods. Subsidized areas with more working poor than unemployed poor suffer from other correlates of poverty such as poor schooling and crime.