A Letter to Crooks and Liars:
"Wayne from Akron writes:
I felt compelled to write after reading your 'Akron Getting Big Housing Help' news story describing how Akron is receiving 20 million dollars from the Federal Government. This money is earmarked to raze and rebuild '230 rental units and 50 - 65 houses.' This HUD Hope VI Program shows that the remnants of FDR's socialist agenda is alive and well, abetted by the Republican Right doling out our money and glad-handing to secure votes, and the Democrats freely spending the rest of our money in order to fuel a Leftist Utopian vision with a wink and a nudge to Chairman Mao and Lenin.
This is a microcosm of a larger woe afflicting American society, the pandering to the lowest common denominator rather than investing in the best and the brightest. Can you imagine what $40 million dollars in the form of grants and loans to Akron U graduates to start small businesses would do? That could be used to plant the seeds that the market would then decide to germinate or terminate, not the politicians. As the population of the area dwindles and brain drain continues, how much better to have spent this money on those who would contribute most to the area in the forms of jobs, taxes, families and a trickle down economy that would benefit far more people than new housing projects will."
Wayne from Akron has more at C&L.
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