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Where are you going with this Bubbah?

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Cloudman and Bubbah everybody that is on Section 8 and receiving vouchers is not a murderer or thief. When I became pregnant with my son I was in school at Memphis State and Working as a Certified Pharmacy Tech. I received food stamps and tenncare and was going to get section 8 until my mom told me to come home. A lot of people are on Section 8 because they've hit hard times. Oh yeah and I received WIC vouchers too. Just my two cents

Well, that's NOT where I was going with it.
Where I was going with it, other than (quick! duck from impending personal responsibility of making your own asumptions approaching!) where you took it, was:
The administration of the program should be WAYYY more proactive about the background checks,there should be retroactive background checks to clean up the program. They ARE in order!
I have had public assistance too including WIC when my kids fell ill. I know not everyone is bad, BUT, when the GOV doesn't hold up it's end to faithfuly administrate BY THE RULES that the fed set up, then it is guilty of "stacking it's own deck" as far as artificially creating or cultivating artificially high rolls of unqualified voucher holders, i.e. criminals, to get more federal money to subvert to their pockets. There has been a parallell drawn by Dr. Janikowski, but, absent police reports to correlate there can't be a direct connection made, even though there absolutely is one. Ask anyone in a declining neighborhood in Memphis.

There should be a LOT MORE TRANSPARENCY brought on by exposing the connection if a felon or violent offender is a voucher holder, or, is living in subsidized housing, or acepting any assistance if only to get the CITY to STOP WASTING MONEY that would be BETTER SPENT somewhere else, like on qualified voucher holders and police, and to know for real whether it is helping or hurting us as a whole, and who it is doing what to.

Sassy, when you got off assistance, do you remember how wide the gap was from "elligable to keep receiving" to "making enough mone

So, to be clear:
In my neighborhood, you could follow a trail of litter from the convenience store and drug and prostitution houses to section 8 houses, everytime. I'm sure there are good people on it, but, they don't leave a trail of litter, dead bodies, injured people or killed children behind them.
Those folks don't need their bills payed for them. The rules say we aren't supposed to be funding criminals.
But we are.

bubbah just because you had trouble with one family who happened to be getting Section 8 assistance doesn't mean that all of them are bad people.

That is like saying all of a certain group is bad because one did something wrong.

Be aware, and alert. bubbah does not just blow off steam for the sake of hearing his own voice. he doesn't lump folk in a bag and tie them up together to make a stat work.

Exactly what stereotype?

No it was ALL EVIDENCE based. EVIDENCE precludes a stereotype.
Not stereotyping, unless you call lax administration of federal funded programs to subvert funds and artificially inflate numbers of eligible candidates for housing costing the truly eligible availability of housing funds and in the process destroying neighborhoods to make cheap property available for political cronies a stereotype.

Those would be hidden from you and me. Mainly because they don't usually get caught and the investigations just keep on going and going till no one remembers.
We have done a post on it before but it was a long time ago when Tenn Waltz was ongoing.
Good Idea to do another.
We could also look to see if the officers came from section 8 households.
I'm not saying section 8 recipients are bad, I'm saying the admnistration of the program is being used to house criminals on purpose and put them in areas that the corrupt officials want cheapened so that they can purchase large blocks of land via their chronies for next to nothing and sell them to national store chains and pocket your money.