Does the Leftwing agenda boil down to: Spread The Misery?

Question

WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Most reasonable people will concede that public housing projects failed. We’ve all seen the spotless new apartment complexes paid for by taxpayers to help the needy be transformed into filthy, crime-ridden slums.

Now, a new generation of leftists carps about “substandard housing” — as if those developments were built in the first place with cracked windows, urine in the stairwells and hypodermic needles on the playgrounds.

In fact, irresponsible residents and their guests destroy housing projects, and now — thanks to the federal government — they can do the same thing to your neighborhood.

People who have so little regard for others do not make good neighbors. They are not interested in pulling their weight; their aim is to be carried by others.
http://www.examiner.com/a-819062~Housing_vouchers_spread_the_misery.html

Answer 1

It is no secret that the leftists' political followers represent the lower end of the social food chain preferring to parasitize rather that constructively contribute to the society that supports them and their patent irresponsibility's (indiscriminate breeding, drug abuse, violent crime, malingering...laziness ad naseum). The liberal politico sees these individuals as a prime target of their pandering as this subset of society survives via their socialistic directives of overindulgent social programs aimed not at betterment of the afflicted but reinforcement of dependence upon federal entitlements at the expense of those who actually work for a living.

Answer 2

I would expand the definition to:
Spread the Misery and Capitalize on the Envy.

Keep your voting block down and out. Promise a brighter future IF ONLY the government can be allowed to TAKE CARE of your every need. Personal responsibility is much too abstract a concept to burden the populace with.

There are many caring, thoughtful and otherwise thinking individuals in the liberal ranks that for some reason buy this line of reasoning. Good PR from the dems I imagine. The unfortunate part is that the leadership (with a few exceptions) is ONLY interested in fostering the pity and thereby the votes.

PS- greye_ I don't see the connection between Housing vouchers and Education vouchers.
"Give a man a fish, and he'll eat today"
"Teach a man to fish, and he'll eat forever"
(paraphrased, I'm sure)

Answer 3

The School that my son is now attending used to be considered one of the best Schools in this area.
But for some reason children from out of the area (mostly undesirable areas) are being bussed to his School and it isn't any longer considered a good School.
Now the children who are from this area are having to engage in psychological warfare against the newcomers and fights are occurring on a daily basis.
The classes are filled to overflowing and one other thing I've noticed is that the newcomers all sit in the front of his class while the children who live in the Schools District all sit towards the back of the class.
Why are they doing this to us I wonder?
Why?

I would like to add that allot of people are selling their homes and moving away because of what's happening to the area we live in.
So in about 3 or 5 years from now the entire area will become a slum because those of us who lived here before it became that way will have moved.
The trouble makers aren't going to change because they're around people who aren't what's going to happen is those of us who are productive civilized people are going to vacate the area leaving it to them and then the whole entire area will become crap just like the people who made it that way.

But what I fear is this may be happening all over and eventually there won't be anywhere decent left to run to.
America will become one huge crap hole and those of us who want quality lives will be S.O. L.

Answer 4

No, because if we look back before all the policies that were implemented before the 1900's, by taking power away from the free markets, and put that power with the people--we lived in a boom and bust economy that brought on the Great Depression.

By creating responsible markets, gave the middle class its power, and brought on the longest stabilizing economy in Americas history through FDR's policies.

Now we are seeing the dismantling of the responsible markets and going into the free market system, we are seeing the fall of the middle class in America.

I believe there should be a balance of the two systems, and I hope we don't go back into the free marketing systems, because that will lead us back into another great depression--so only a few can have all the money, and the middle class will just disappear.

Answer 5

YES. They achieve equality by keeping people from getting ahead.

That is why they refer to everything in the relative - - - Krugman is right about one thing, the "gap" between the top 1% and the bottom 50% is bigger than it was a generation ago - - - but the bottom 50% was more likely to stay in the bottom 50% for life a generation ago, and made less in real income and had less in real wealth, a generation ago.

By the way I am truthsayer, truthisback, truthsfifth, etc... - suspended for truth is not.

I agree with suspended for truth on this question though.

Answer 6

I agree the war on poverty has been a dismal failure as has the war on drugs. we need to let people take control of their own lives and quit telling them how to live life. Both parties are guilty of the nanny state unfortunately, remember who gave us the prescription drug program that will bankrupt the treasury much faster then medi-care could have alone.

Answer 7

Spread the misery to everyone, except for the Evil Leftist Nomenklatura (Soviet-speak for the Communist elites).

Answer 8

How do you know that these people do not work hard but they are still poor? Many people do work hard and it is either be homeless or live in a project. Where are these people supposed to go? What are they supposed to do? They can't afford to go to college and they their kids can't afford it and then they end up in a slum. People would be more miserable if they were homeless or they could even die. We are trying to help people who cannot survive on the income they make but it does not always work. What needs to happen is better education, more activities and programs for kids, more cops in these slums and more scholarship programs. I mean we may not be able to fix the adults but we can help the next generation of kids. Then no one will ever have to live in a housing project again...that would be great! But it is not going to happen but with what I suggested maybe it could improve. Do YOU have any suggestions to help these people or will you leave them alone to die on the streets in the richest country in the world? Most people DO NOT LIKE to get government help or live in slums. How dare you say they do not work hard and that they WANT to live this way!

Answer 9

Why yes, and thank you for asking. It can be best summed up like this:

Captialism = unequal distribution of wealth

Socialism = equal distribution of poverty

We know what our lib friends favor. Misery does love company!

Answer 10

Gee, I guess that old detonator I bought on eBay will come in handy in another 20 years, when they realize it's a failure again....