How About Pay Your Own Way?
- The last residents are moving out of the Cabrini-Green high-rise public housing development, but some say they are not ready to go.
Resident Kenneth Hammond said he is not satisfied with the condition of new housing being offered, noting the residences are still being rehabilitated.
Even so, the Chicago Housing Authority insists those residents will be better off living in mixed income communities throughout the city.
Hammond doesn’t agree after visiting one of those neighborhoods.
“These guys running through the alley. There were even some shots fired,” Hammond said. “And I went back to my family and said we need to re-think this out.”
Perhaps Kenneth doesn't remember the 1970's, but people were getting shot left and right all over Cabrini back then. Coppers, too. The reason it's so peaceful there now is the wholesale destruction of the 'jets.
Too bad, so sad if you don't like where they're moving you, but you're always welcome to, oh, we don't know, get a job and pay your own way so as to stop being wholly reliant on the government for everything. But until that time, you go where the landlord tells you to go.
Too bad, so sad if you don't like where they're moving you, but you're always welcome to, oh, we don't know, get a job and pay your own way so as to stop being wholly reliant on the government for everything. But until that time, you go where the landlord tells you to go.
Labels: we got nothing
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
51 Comments:
Get a job and pay your own way you lazy fuck!
You don't know what fun you missed if you didn't work 18 during the 1970's. Cabrini was a laugh a minute. Shot fired at the police every night. Gasoline poured on an elevator when you decided to take it. (Yes once in a while we were just too tired to take the stairs.) Bottles of urine flying out of the windows. Dead bodies almost every day. Guns!!! Guns!!!Guns!!! of all types. Ah yes, "Good Times" for all.....
Retirement is wonderful....
God Bless the CPD......
God Save the United States....
Oh yeah, Never Trust a fed.....
As I have said many times through the years..."this isn't a condo and you don't own lakefront property." but they are being put up in "mixed income properties" across the street on Division. What a wonderful opportunity...secured buildings that even the police can't get into in an emergency! They can have a field day terrorizing the Yuppies from the inside!
I want free housing, I want it to be nice when I move in so I can destroy it myself, I will ignore a lease and program rules and will complain even though it's all free. Screw all you dummies going to work
SCC,
Could not agree with you more. Someone who is on the dole stating, "I do not like it". Tough shit!
Get a job and do it on your own. I and my wife work hard everyday, just to stay in our own place.
I will not go into the tangent of those that are saying: " We bought our house for xxxx, and now that it is not worth yyyy, give me a break on it.
Make a decision and live with the consequences. How many people would be giving up their place if the market was still good?
isn't it amazing that the beast can dictate....absolutelyy disgusting.....get a job and the you can live wherever you want....until then stfu....
Give them nothing. They're owed nohing. Anybody that has been in public housing for more than 2 years should be evicted and left to there own guile to find housing.
watch the video on the link....about 1:40 in you see a woman who has lived there 30 years and claims to not have a budget to move her family.....she is driving a NEW Jeep Cherokee. Seriously if this doesn't show the problem with section 8 than I don't know what does.
I never did like the living conditions in Cabrini either.
That's why I have a job and with the money that I earn at that job I saved up a down payment and bought a house.
Now I make house payments called a "mortgage." No more car payments, that is paid off. I do buy groceries. Those are bags filled with stuff called "food."
In those "food" bags are no flamin' hot cheetos or orange soda or grape soda masquerading as staples of a reasonably balanced diet.
And no crack, that is a firm rule, none of that. Same with KFC and Popeyes. None.
Seems to be working. House is a few years away from being paid off, son is out on his own, he doesn't use dope and at age 33 has no rap sheet.
So I'd say it was a good decision not to go on the 'guvment dole and take that cheap/free apartment over in Cabrini way back when.
It is amazing what one can do with some simple things like a paycheck and a job.
TWO words. Welfare reform. No more lifetime welfare, no more welfare for the endless generations of leeches. It's simple you get 3 years of welfare, 3 years to get a job, after that you are done. If you get convicted of a felony, you are done getting welfare. If you are on welfare you can't get cable or satelite dishes or cars or rims for those cars. If you are on welfare you can't have children until you get off welfare so you can support and care for your kids. And yeah, you are supposed to take car of you kids. Useless parasites.
A whole couple of generations of CHA dwellers have been born and raised as "guests of the government", and yes, they have been raised to believe that their "job" is to keep abreast of all current and new government programs and handouts.
Work? You're kidding, right? Get the f*ck outta here! Oh, but before you leave, can you give me my free Obama phone so I can feel as worthwhile as all you taxpayin folks in the nice hoods? Besides, I'm outta rocks and I need to call my dealer to run by with a new supply for me to sell.
See ya, chumps!
If I was elected Mayor. There would be very limited welfare. Then the mutts would riot and then we would cleanse the streets. You are nothing but a hinderance to society.
Anonymous said...
As I have said many times through the years..."this isn't a condo and you don't own lakefront property." but they are being put up in "mixed income properties" across the street on Division. What a wonderful opportunity...secured buildings that even the police can't get into in an emergency! They can have a field day terrorizing the Yuppies from the inside!
12/01/2010 12:18:00 AM
The yuppie paying $1800 a month on a mortgage will live next door to Rufus paying $100. Welcome to share the wealth. Your wealth, the mutts share.
I worked at Cabrini is the late 90's and it amazed me how these SUBSIDIZED RENTERS seemed to think that these were their homes, not like it was their apartment, but like they actually owned them. They'd scream and holler about things they didn't like and we'd tell them, look, you pay maybe $90 per month for an apartment in a gold cost high-rise, you have 3, 4 or even 5 bedrooms in this apartment. If you had a job, your rent would be at least 10 or 15 times what you pay. You get free electricity (nobody paid the electric bill back then) and free heat and some of these fools owed several thousand dollars in back rent and were pissed off that CHA had the unmitigated gall to evict them! How in the hell do you get several thousand dollars in arrears when the rent is $90 per month?
Anonymous said...
"...If you are on welfare you can't have children until you get off welfare so you can support and care for your kids. And yeah, you are supposed to take care of you kids. Useless parasites."
12/01/2010 04:39:00 AM
Very unrealistic... besides, as my social worker ex-wife insisted, cutting off the money will only hurt the babies who have no say so whatsoever about having been brought into this dilemma. If you're going to take away the $$$, you'll have to take away the kids as well, and have the government come up with a plan for THAT. And we all know how good the government is at stuff. They're the ones that got us into this mess to begin with.
As my old partner used to say. We can solve the whole problem easily. All we need to do is give them all a free fish bowl full of guppies and teach them to eat their young!
Besides some of the other reform items already mentioned:
Random drug tests. You fail, NO MORE CHECKS. No more access to any public aid of any kind.
You need to take a drug test for applying to just about any job today - you can take a drug test to get "free benefits".
Food stamps for food only - anyone exchanging them for 50 CENTS on the dollar for liquor or anything else - both the store owner AND the person trying to sell off the food stamps - BANNED FOR LIFE on the program.
Let's start putting some restrictions on this "free money and benefits". Funny how all the politicians are pretty quiet on this.
If I was elected Mayor. There would be very limited welfare. Then the mutts would riot and then we would cleanse the streets. You are nothing but a hinderance to society.
12/01/2010 05:40:00 AM
----
Go to City College and take a course in Government... Welfare benefits and Section 8 are FEDERAL benefits and they've been around since the Lyndon Johnson administration.
It is Public Housing Not Yours !!!
How about you go finish the re habbing you worthless piece of fucking garbage
I'm sure there will be generations of freeloading project dwellers coming from you
This is an absolute joke. These people have sat around for decades living their lives at the expense of the American tax-payer. It is absolutely amazing to me that this continues, and that some decent politicians can not put a stop to this shit. We can all thank decomcrats, liberals, ang gerymandering for allowing this crap to continue.
Henry Bowman is absolutely right about Cabrini (and all the other ones in the city). Think about what kind of savage keeps bottles of piss and containers of shit in their apartment. And you have to be a real moron to keep gasoline in a high rise. The only good thing about the projects was that it kept the savages in one place not scattered all over the city.
There should be NO welfare, just workfare. Give them a stick with a nail, a large bag and set them on the street picking up the shit garbage they and their ilk drop. If they can't handle that, eat grass, and sleep in a cave. No cave? Move to where there is one.
Instead of laying off hard working people who have to fight for unemployment, looking for any job to support themselves and their families, take half these BUMS off public aid!!! They stand all day on the corners drinking and bullsh*tting. Sick of these people already! The think they are "entitled" to our money cuz of crap that happened over 100 years ago.
Went on a call many years ago in 023, to a nice building with beautiful lake views, new floors, new appliances......her "rent" was $175 while the "condo" next to her was sol;d for $350,000. This country needs to wake up. This country has made the savage "entitled". A shame!
This is a HUGE reason for the downslide of this City. Daley tearing down the 'Jets for his Olympic project.
It's too late, the damage is done. He (Daley) has spread the Cabrini Cancer throughout this City and surrounding suburbs where it's growing and entrenching itself into previously untainted, working class neighborhoods.
Protect your homes, educate your neighbors - go home safe and get the FUCK outta this Shit City before you become another statistic.
To you civilians - strongly suggest you do the same. Vote these hacks outta office and help take this city back now that the Tyranny of Daley is about to end....
As a public employee I have watched-helpless as the media has kowtowed to the agenda of big business, and vilified us for pensions. Because of this, the public is increasingly turning against us ...even friends make us the bad guy, saying ...”we can’t afford pensions anymore or I don’t have a pension, so you shouldn’t either”.
I wonder when this sentiment will ever turn on these welfare people who generation after generation just take, no furlough days for them, no belt tightening. There is no recession in the ghetto. What a fucked up city, burying 2 police officers who gave their life and contributed to society yet our profession is constantly under the radar of an unfriendly media for being CPD and expecting a pension, while these welfare fucks skate through life untouched. Really messed up.
Retired Task Force
Always worked South, but once a week we were sent to Cabrini. Jesus what a hole! The gargage chutes were backed up 10 stories.
The second we pulled up on a job, cans of food were launched from the upper "suites". BBQs going in the sinks and tubs. Unreal.
40 years and the residents there have not evolved.
Stay safe!
Anybody that has been in public housing for more than 2 years should be evicted and left to there own guile to find housing.
Two Years??,,,Try four generations ..of housing muts..four generations of dope slinging..domestic violence calls..shots fired...murder and mayhem..hope the yuppies enjoy their new found friends..and neighbors
like sonny said" the working man is a sucker"!
As pointed out by quite a few posters, welfare was meant to be a helping hand not a life choice. I have seen a few people use it for a leg up and go on to credible lives outside the projects. But I have seen far too many not do anything to get out of them. Sooner or later the feds are going to have to put sensible limits on how long we help them.
Oh, you poor baby! What we're GIVING your dead ass for free isn't good enough? Get a goddam J-O-B and buy something better. Or, you are quite welcome to go fuck yourself.
As a "Hair Gel" copper (CPD generation reference only as I do not wear the hair gel, but only have 3yrs. on the "Job"), I would like to say THANK YOU to all of the officers who worked at Cabrini and/or any public housing complex in this city. Let us also never forget those in blue who were lost while working in the projects. What little experience I have working in public housing was at the Dearborn Homes in 021 prior to them being rehabbed. I can only imagine what the coppers before me dealt with each tour when those buildings were at max capacity. It would have been my honor to work, learn, and laugh with you guys then, but it was well before my time. Again, the best I can do now is to say THANK YOU.
Most if not all of those "bugs" were bred in the "Jets".
So they think that this is the way life is. They are ignorant to the fact that the rest of society takes pride in self worth. Those bugs will always be a drain on the economy. They need to be re-taught. They need to learn how to go out and earn a real education, graduate, get a job and become a proud individual. Stop blaming everyone else for their placement in life. The only way for the bugs to learn is to cut them off from the welfare "teet". Reality is a good thing. To all of the Libtards, Go F*** yourselves, you've caused this.
Ken,
Go get your Fucking shinebox.
I got an idea, put all on a barge take it out past the cribs. And let em live on the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Talk about pay your own way. Read this about your tax money:
November 30, 2010
(AP) The House on Tuesday passed landmark legislation to pay for some $4.6 billion in settlements with American Indians and black farmers who say they faced discrimination and mistreatment from the government.
Lawmakers voted 256-152 to send the measure to President Barack Obama, whose administration brokered the settlements over the past year.
The package would award some $3.4 billion to American Indians over claims they were cheated out of royalties overseen by the Interior Department for resources like oil, gas and timber. Another $1.2 billion would go to African-Americans who claim they were unfairly denied loans and other assistance from the Agriculture Department.
Hows this for a novel idea. The CHA & HUD buy a MILLION acres in lets say Oklahoma or Texas. Build a hundred thousand or so homes.
Then move those who refuse to get jobs or be responsible productive members of society to that location.
I'd personally be willing to stipulate all those residing there would cast votes to the Democratic party during elections.
I would guess Cook county residents would makethe population there 250,000 easily.
Street naming ideas? Jackson Way, Durbin Blvd or FDR place. Name the new country Kingdon of Daley? Haiti 2.
This new country would be just like any other 3rd world country- no huricanes just the occasional tornado to help control the population.
I be on dizbilety ya know SSI. Im a ackhallic.
if I was ables to work I'd have me a gud Jay-Oh-Bee!
"Can I get a brick of cheese" ?
Go to City College and take a course in Government
Fuck off educated asshole. I can learn about city government by looking in my toilet.
They are a discgrace to society and add nothing to it.
When the section eight housing federal law was passed and people who could qualify were able to obtain coupons for housing, many of the those folks moved out of the city to rural areas in Illinois and other states. I have a friend who runs a religious shelter in Iowa and he always complains about former city residents coming to his city with section 8 vouchers. They bring their nasty social habits with them. Or shal I say, anti-social habits.
They're right. Let them stay in Cabrini. You want to risk having that ghetto trash move in next door to you? Hell, I wish we could move the rest of them back in there. Since they started moving people out of the projects, dozens of neighborhoods have been fucked up.
From 2002-2007 during the time Stateway Gardens and those other projects on State Street (Southside) were being torn down, the City sprinkled these people in decent neighborhoods and communities. After working 2nd watch and driving home, I turned the corner and found to my amazement, 2 doors to the south of my house, these people put their daily wash over the front bannister to dry. Then during the course of the week, they put a 27" tv on an old card table and placed it on the front LAWN. Then the Police had the house surrounded because they were involved with Cab Drivers robberies by calling from their house.
These people should not be allowed into decent areas until they are taught and trained to act like decent people and CHA to follow up on these people.
Eventually, they were asked to move. But another set of these animals moved in. Again there were problems with cooking on the front lawn. All these homes has backyards, but they don't use it. The backyards is used for garbage. They throw their garbage around the house including the backyard. They put the city garbage can under the kitchen window so they dont have to buy an indoor trash can.
The problems were huge and I made it out just in time. I retired and moved the hell away from Chicago. It can't get any better.
Again, this was your Mayor's plan - to destroy decent neighborhoods and wipe out certain areas for progress.
Go to City College and take a course in Government... Welfare benefits and Section 8 are FEDERAL benefits and they've been around since the Lyndon Johnson administration.
12/01/2010 06:52:00 AM
WE KNOW. The democrats have nurtured this program like they are the "daddy" and "daddy" doles out all the benefits (freebees). The gov is the daddy to all the baby mamas out there. The gov didn't get them pregnant, but the gov pays for everything, don't they.
There are multiple generations on welfare. No one should be living 30 f*ckin years in public housing and food stamps. They have to start decreasing and eliminating benefits altogether for this negative behavior. It is not normal in today's society. People scream about jobs, well there are jobs out there, entry-level jobs, that no one wants because of the min wage, it's too f*ckin easy to sit around watching cable tv and do nothing. The only ones grabbing them are the illegals, and don't get me on that subject.
pay for your own selves and your spawn, you lazy imbred mutants...
They've gotten more than enough "Free Rides" . They can just get their asses going, work, or get the fuck out if they don't like it. I don't like getting out of bed every day for 30 years to go to work, but I've done it. so can they. Fuck this City. Fuck this county. Fuck tis State. Fuck this Obama-scammery of a Country.
God Bless the U.S.A.
Anonymous said...
I got an idea, put all on a barge take it out past the cribs. And let em live on the Edmund Fitzgerald.
12/01/2010 12:53:00 PM
This is probably just a minor point but the Edmund Fitzgerald is in Lake Superior. We live along the shore of Lake Michigan, but I bet there are some nice cribs up there.
Anonymous said...
It is Public Housing Not Yours !!!
12/01/2010 06:58:00 AM
Hey, I am part of the public, it so is mines!
Fucking lazy POS. WHY do we continue to pay for these assholes to be, you know, assholes...?
Hows this for a novel idea. The CHA & HUD buy a MILLION acres in lets say Oklahoma or Texas. Build a hundred thousand or so homes.
******************************
Oh Hell NO! why would you want to give them areas that aren't already over-run by these leeches? I say give them Cook County, northern California, New York, New Jersey or even Massachusetts. Buy our houses from us and let us settle in free America and let the mooches have at it on their own.
"I worked at Cabrini is the late 90's and it amazed me how these SUBSIDIZED RENTERS seemed to think that these were their homes, not like it was their apartment, but like they actually owned them. They'd scream and holler about things they didn't like and we'd tell them, look, you pay maybe $90 per month for an apartment in a gold cost high-rise, you have 3, 4 or even 5 bedrooms in this apartment. If you had a job, your rent would be at least 10 or 15 times what you pay. You get free electricity (nobody paid the electric bill back then) and free heat and some of these fools owed several thousand dollars in back rent and were pissed off that CHA had the unmitigated gall to evict them! How in the hell do you get several thousand dollars in arrears when the rent is $90 per month?
12/01/2010 06:36:00 AM
It gets better.
There was actually once a program in which they would have stopped pretending that these people were paying "rent," and started pretending that it was a "mortgage payment" instead!
At the end of an apropriate period, they would have been handed a deed to the unit -- AND ALL THE RESPONSIBILITY THAT WENT WITH ITS UPKEEP.
There was a howl that rent the heavens, led of course by the good Rev. Jesse Jackson.
They don't want to own it -- they just want to act like they do.
This business of moving them into "mixed-income" buildings where they will be shoved in next to Todd and Heidi Goldteeth's $450,000 lux-you-ree u-nit is a real scream. Finally the Democrats will get to live with the results of their "social engineering."
"The second we pulled up on a job, cans of food were launched from the upper 'suites.'"
--12/01/2010 08:46:00 AM
What's wit' you? Dat's called "gratitude."
Dey are celebratin' diversity.
A! A! T'row me down a can a tuna fish, huh?
I love dis town. We really can "all get along!"
Post a Comment
<< Home