I read that article about the new law, the idea is a good one, not sure I agree with how the law is written and I’m sure it will be exploited, I see some serious loopholes. But that aside, the one thing that jumped out at me was the entitlement of the person they chose to use an example. Here is what they said when they found out their rental was being foreclosed on(taken from the article):
“I had a week to be out,” said Brantley, who depends on government aid to help pay the rent. “I don’t want to move to a bad neighborhood.”
This bothered me, was the author of the piece trying to bother me, or is this as clean of a victim as they could find. If people on government rent assistance (translation:welfare) wont live in bad neighborhoods, then who does live there? Just lie to me, everytime I look at the taxes I pay, I am at risk for feeling bad, but I like to feel good, I want to feel that my money is helping people, show me some blind old woman that doesn’t have to eat dog food because my tax money is helping her, why can’t they find her. I really don’t want to hear that my tax money is going to make sure the poor don’t have to suffer the indignity of living in a poor area, that welfare recipients are now discriminating.
