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Consider this…
You are a poor minority living in a government housing project
called “Affordable.” It’s all paid for by the tax dollars of mostly
middle-income Americans.
Included in still more government programs are monthly checks and
coupons to supply food, free healthcare, free education, and let’s
also throw in free cell phone.
Does that not make us a generous nation? Are not the poor well
cared for and satisfied? Aren’t the taxpayers proud of their
contribution to the common good?
The answer to every one of these questions is NO!
First, consider these facts about that stipend income from the
welfare check. Originally, it was called “assistance” and the purpose
was to help out when the paycheck wasn’t quite covering needs.
Then that system was changed, and the welfare check means you can’t
hold a job as you are collecting that monthly check. If a recipient
even tries to put some away in savings, just an attempt to get
ahead, it is confiscated and possibly the welfare check stops. It’s no
longer “assistance” during hard times. Now it’s control.
Then there is that public housing situation. Here’s what it’s like
to actually live in those government projects.
In many cities these neighborhoods are drastically rundown in
disrepair as lights, air conditioning, and appliances fail to work.
The roof leaks, windows are broken, and the plumbing backs up.
Trash around the grounds is in ever-growing piles, is rarely, if
ever cleaned and hauled away. Don’t even think about any kind of
yard work to create a place for the children to play.
Worse, the residents live in fear of gang elements like MS-13 that
have taken over the neighborhoods to rule as their
territory. Pimps, pedophiles, and drug dealers prey on the
children.
And no matter how many times residents may ask for repairs, it
never happens.
Why are the conditions so bad in this government-controlled
housing? Government is a monopoly that has no incentive to be
efficient. The taxpayers are forced to pay and the money rolls in so
the politicians can puff out their chests over how generous THEY are
in helping the less fortunate.
Meanwhile, the management of these properties is by government
bureaucrats with no personal stake in the projects. Their paychecks
keep rolling in, no matter what happens to the properties they manage.
Only private owners care about the condition of their property.
In such an atmosphere, the inherent hopelessness leaves little room
for making future goals for their lives. There is no way out once the
system has a hold on you.
By herding African Americans, other minorities, and low-income
families like cattle, the government is committing them to a future
worse than poverty. They have lost their rights, their choices, and
their ability to excel through self-determination and personal
growth.
Yet, proponents of government’s fair housing want you to think that
those favoring the programs are the compassionate ones, helping
minorities to survive in an oppressive capitalist world of the rich.
Essentially, fear is the common tactic used to keep minorities in
their programs.
Anyone who opposes their system of control and instead, argues
sound economics and a system of equal opportunity, is accused of
heartlessness and racism, determined to pull the plug on their
lifeline.
Tom DeWeese,
President
American Policy
Center
https://americanpolicy.org/
Tom DeWeese is one of the nation’s leading advocates of
individual liberty, free enterprise, private property rights, personal
privacy, back-to-basics education and American sovereignty and
independence. Today he serves as Founder and President of the American
Policy Center.
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