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Submitted by Nat, Aug 12, 2007 14:19

Not heartless but real. A normal person like myself has to move frequently because of rent and changing jobs. I see nothing heartless in displacing the people living in public housing. It is just the real world. Many people commute hours to get to Manhattan each day to work. Meanwhile, there are government subsidized housing projects for people who do not have employment in the midst of of the places where the working poor have to commute to. Does this make sense? No. Public housing never worked here. It did not work in USSR. It just makes people more dependent on government and less self-sufficient.


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