To Mitch Landrieu: Is Public Housing / Mixed Housing really "OPPORTUNITY"?

Does allowing Mixed Income / Public Housing create a better life for those who  "really need" it?

Well, do the RICH, who spoil their kids, with cars, private schools, totally paid tuition for college and everything else, create responsible kids?  Obviously not.  And what about the GOVERNMENT who taxes the rich only to give to "poor"?  Do they really make life better for the "poor"? Obviously not. If government really did so, why did government abandon public housing for mixed housing?  And why did government change welfare dramatically to have limits and 'some' accountability?

And what is this "OPPORTUNITY" that Moon and Mitch Landrieu talk about? Are these mixed housing development really a REWARD for very BAD decisions these people made in life?

Moon and Mitch Landrieu seem to think "opportunity" is the key. Well, this "opportunity" has really been at least two (2) things.

ONE:
a disincentive for working and proper behavior. By essentially having really nice housing like you see in the new mixed development, the poor, just like the rich spoiled children, have no idea what it takes to make it in life or why the world goes round.

So what do you see in Mixed Housing? The same as you did in Public Housing. The poor sit on their door steps all day (and way way late at night) to save money by turning off the A/C. They let their kids run around OUTSIDE all day and so they can't possibly be a learning a thing. And when the drug dealer's flashy car comes around to TALK, the poor learn nothing but the bad.

TWO:
Political payoff to contractors, architectural firms, and free/public housing groups.

Look at the Hollywood celebrities like Kato Kaelin and Paris Hilton. They have been given more than enough to get started in the right direction and one can see what happened to them.

And let's get real and call government "out of control spending" what it really is. It's bleeding heart compassion from people who know very little about raising children the correct way. If they really did know something, they, the housing advocates, would have far more to show for all the billions of dollars spent and then completely WASTED.

If RICH parents can't simply throw money to raise their children in the proper way to become responsible, how can the government throw money, mixed housing, food stamps and the like, to raise the children of the poor?

(note to self: make illustration of carrot on a stick VERSUS a carrot 'without' a stick being already eaten by the donkey. 1st picture should show distance traveled and the 2nd picture should be no distance traveled.)