Subj : Starting things off. To : Allen Prunty From : Mike Powell Date : Tue Mar 07 2017 19:00:00 >That is exactly what they are doing in Louisville... they are tearing down the >Black Democrat stronghold housing projects and moving them to predominantly >white republican areas like PRP, Valley Station and Fairdale. With Louisville being traditionally Democrat-leaning, is your opinion that the Democrats are doing so in order to weaken Republican areas, or is your opinion that some Republicans are doing this so as to break up the downtown stronghold(s)? Curious since I used to live there but have not kept up with this kind of thing. > I don't want to sound racist but they seem to be taking the concentrated base > that votes democrat and are engineering new "scattered housing" areas where > you > don't know which house someone paid full price and which house is "subsidised" > to get them into home ownership or it's a HUD owned secion 8 rental. Here is the thing, and this crosses racial boundaries... the government has tried to get more people owning homes. That is not at its roots a bad thing, but an unfortunate side-effect is that you get people owning homes that probably should not be. They are not responsible enough, stable enough, etc., to do so. Part of the housing fiasco was greedy banks and lenders, but part of it was the fact that the government encouraged this stuff and didn't check-and-balance it at all. Heck, even people who are reasonable and stable enough these days may not have a long-term income stream that would support home ownership. Being a single, public-sector employee in a not-very-rich state, I am honestly starting to feel like I probably fall into this category. I can afford to own one, and can afford to keep one up, but I am no longer so sure I can afford to do both. :) Now, Louisville-specific, back before that area fell under control of a larger regional office centered in another, quasi-far-off city, the HUD Louisville regional office consistently had the lowest, or next-to-lowest, default rate in the country. So for anyone who thinks the next-to previous paragraph was government bashing, or Louisville bashing, no it was not. :) > And now they are trying to eliminate busing and have neighborhood schools in > our state. Which is aimed totally at Louisville where the average student > rides an hour or more every day on the bus just to get to school all for > "diversity" reasons. Over the years Louisville got some praise for their busing program, but they also got sued for it in more recent years, IIRC. At one point, they had some sort of "block" program where suburban white kids could go to their neighborhood school so long as it was not deemed "full." If it was, tough, they might have to go another school school in their "block" that was likely all the way across town... think Lyndon or St. Matt's to Valley Station... and the school system would NOT provide transportation. That was another stab at promoting diversity (maybe middle class vs. lower-middle, rather than racial) and I don't think it lasted long. >But the sword cuts both ways... they want to build a low income high density >housing building in Prospect which is a "Rich white democrat" section and they >are resisitng it because they feel it is not a good fit for their >neighborhood. LOL, you have to love the hardened Democrats like those. They'd probably raise a stink, and maybe some $$$, if it was some rich Republican trying to keep those poor folks out. But, give them the choice of having them in their own backyards, and having it affect their property values, and they throw the same hissy fits. It is OK to help those poor folks, just as long as they stay downtown or on the Southend where they belong. >Amazingly this area in Prospect is near a neighborhood called "norton commons" >which was built to have pedestrians in mind. There are plenty of grocery >stores and other retail where the seniors can safely walk or ride their >scooters too. Sadly the high density senior housing in Downtown no longer has >a grocery store they can walk to. Norton's Commons is actually outside of Prospect, but that is still a near-adjacent, mostly rich-folks area. I can remember when most of Norton's Commons was still farmland and open fields. > And don't get me started on the Veterans Hospital controversy. The VA > purchased land in the Rich "east end" and they don't want it there either. I wonder what excuse those rich snobs use for that? Now, wait and see... someone will dispute the existance of "rich, snooty Democrats." Mike --- * SLMR 2.1a * All the world's indeed a stage & we are merely players... --- GTMail 1.26 * Origin: CCO BBS * 502/875-8938 * capcity2.synchro.net (1:2320/105.1) .