Roaring20s wrote:
"America used to be a country to producers...now we're just a nation of whiners. Look at the whines and cries over this topic alone."

Unless you weren't sure, this is an opinion board..... and everyone is entitled. If you don't care for the banter, then cease responding to the thread.
By the way, why don't you tell us all how you Texans supported the Bushies and Enron and allowed the racisim and poverty of Mexicans and Blacks to continue unchecked for decades. Where were you when they dragged that Black man behind the truck? How about the homophobia, sexism and all this other macho BS? And let's go ahead and draw new voting districts to make sure the Blacks, Hispanics and other minorities have no impact on the elections. So, stop being smug... your Southern track record ain't great.

I'm with injcsince81. I could sit here for hours talking about my rotten childhood and all the chances I didn't have but I don't!!!! I was a very Liberal person before moving near Hudson Gardens. When I moved here 6 years ago, it was a nice quiet neighborhood. Then as they started demolishing the other housing projects, all the low life criminals. drug dealers and violent people were placed in Hudson Gardens. Just enough low lifes to make everyone's life miserable. The nice little neighborhood is becoming a Ghetto. After seeing dogs, children, women being beat down in the street, along with vandalism, fighting dogs & loud menacing gangs hanging out at night.... I have lost my desire to pay for able bodied people who sit back and suck off the overly stupid government and ME!!!!! A single women who paid for night school for years, working fulltime since I was 17 and now I want to enjoy the fruits I have earned. My home value is in danger of falling. And dont recommend contacting the city agencies.... they are a big part of the problem!!!!
I worked my butt off and scrimped and saved for years to buy my little Victorian House. When a large Section 8 family moved in next door, I was fine with that at first. Over time, they trashed the apartment, the exterior of the building and hung out on the porch abusing passersby and partying. When I have to get up at 5:30 each moring, I dont think it's unreasonable to be able to sleep at 1:00 AM.
The neighbors did everything they could to try to destroy my front and back landscaped areas, tortured me with racist comments everytime I went in my backyard and were all in all just destructive for the sake of being destructive. I called the cops many times for tresspass and harrassment. That's exhausting for me. But the low lives have no reason even to get up in the morning. I almost sold my house!!!! Finally they moved but Hudson Gardens it still going down quicky. There's nothing wrong in being poor...... but to act in a violent and criminal manner to someone who only smiled and said hello everyday is beyond my comprehension.
As for the the poor kids... yes, they are the only innocent people here. And with all the available contraception and information today, why have so many kids? As a person with no children (because I knew I couldnt give them the life they deserved) why do I pay for deadbeat people who have only contempt for successful people and feel they have a right to a free ride through life. So, STOP HAVING KIDS!!! STOP ABUSING THE FAMILY YOU HAVE!!! Get out there and hustle like the rest of us slobs. Get off my taxes!!!!