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Wasn't it better for

Resistance — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 04:44:45 +0000

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Wasn't it better for society; that Fannie and Freddie helped to eliminate some of the problems associated with public housing and the bastards of wall street and their government; destroyed the better solution? Just another example of the contempt; those in power have towards their subjects.

I can certainly see that.

Orion — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 10:07:49 +0000

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I can certainly see that. It's important to remember also what part of the world made the word "ghetto" so famous. You could say that the German National Socialists set up their own horrific public housing program for that country's Jews.

I may take that in to account in another article on the subject. They want me to write for this newsletter more often and this is certainly the appropriate subject matter.

Liberals and the folks at Utne in particular tend to be utopians - the blotches on various social programs might be wiped off in articles like this. What can you do? Keep hope alive.

One of the downsides of much

artappraiser — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:25:06 +0000

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One of the downsides of much past public housing is that in a society that already is divided as to race or ethnicity or tribe being stuck in an certain economic class, it serves to perpetuate segregation. This was not as much of a problem in a place like Austria of old, where most who were poor were white Austrians just like everyone else aside from economic class. But if a large perecentage of your poor are immigrants from say, Turkey or Pakistan, or unemployed Afro-Americans, then huge public housing "projects" perpetuate segregation by race and/or ethnicity and/or tribe as well as by economic class.

But then I'm one of those liberal people who thinks integration is a good thing, not someone yearning for the good old days where people stuck with their own kind and policed themselves (or not) socially according to their tribal cultural norms.