“I’m not against Barack Obama,” said Willie J.R. Fleming, an organizer with the Coalition to Protect Public Housing and a former public housing resident. “What I am against is some of the people around him.”

When I was in Spain in 1970 they would say the same thing about Francisco Franco. Frankie didn’t take criticism well, either. About the fiftieth time I heard that I thought, “You know, maybe they are not fond of Franco, either.”

Back in the US: The quickest way to put a neighborhood in terminal decline is to make it eligible for section eight.

A big problem are laws that favor “the least worthy” tenant or home buyer. They stop paying and it takes months to get them out. If they leave the plumbing behind, you’re lucky. I’ve seen houses gutted of anything that can turn a nickel in a matter of minutes. On some signal the scavengers would descend and there goes the cooper plumbing and wiring and woodwork. You could go to the store the scavengers may take half your aluminum siding while you’re gone — hey, they gotta eat, drink and be merry, too.

The Democrats have pretty much told people to stop making mortgage payments if they want to bust the deal. The new motto is “Live Free and Flee.” To the next house.

If you heavily tax work and employment, you’ll have less of it. If you subsidize poverty, you’ll have more. A lot of anti-social behavior is just a way of supplementing the government dole — and filling up the free time.