Sign of the Times: 30,000 Line Up for Housing Vouchers

[Opyelie]

Originally Posted by pvande55

Was it revealed how many openings those 30,000 were lining up for? If there were only 300, each applicant had only a 1% chance of getting selected. Why the excitement?

There were 13k applications to go on the waiting lists, and the reports also said MANY who were there were accompanying those waiting for the applications, so it's not like ALL 30k were there for applications anyway.

[malamute]

Originally Posted by 7 Wishes

While in a "logical" working world I fully agree with this post and I'm taking the next comment a bit to the ultimate extreme, we seem to be evolving into a world where $8/hour (or the inflationary equivalent down the line) is becoming a typical wage for your whole career for a significant number of people (you yourself Malamute indirectly say this all the time with your mostly legitimate complaints about offshoring, etc.). Should they NEVER have children? That's part of the problem.....

Not until we overthrow the globalists who are making out like bandits by all this. We're allowing them to destroy us - but if we continue to allow it, then we'll end up like a third world nation and just breeding more poverty.

It's partly our own fault. We're glad to have the cheap foreign made products and cheap labor to build us the cheap housing and be our cheap servants. Even the unemployed can be found at their local Walmart happily filling their carts to further widen the trade deficits and make the super-globalists extremely wealthy.

[serrendipity]

I don't think the welfare recipients should never have kids but lets be fair. Two is more than enough. China is allowed one. How can I say that...well I'm a taxpayer. My family has also been unemployed and the intelligent thing to do is to stop reproducing past the point of ability to support your family.

I think mandatory birthcontrol. Maybe fathers DNA tested positive having vasectomies past two kids. Maybe we as a society need to say enough is enough. America can take care of our children if were responsible. But some parents unwilling or unable to financially, emotionally etc. take care of their kids need help in the birth control area.

We are all paying the price for the excesses, and most inexcusable the system. The foster system, the prison, the education system. Just because Americans have the right to do something doesn't mean it's the best decision for society. Also, where are the tax payers rights.

I have three kids, my husband works and supports them all. What to do with the kids already born...nothing obviously. But it's time we were proactive. If you can't support one kid, two won't make it easier, nor will three. This is third grade math. (I'm sorry I meant if you weren't a welfare recipient it wouldn't be easier).

[Ariadne22]

Serendipity, absolutely.