Originally Posted by
smoothy
Um...HE has a HOUSE in Chicago area....He was a State Senator in that area....he got into politics in Chicago...
Daley was a world class crook, no doubt .....and the entire Chicago political Machine is well know to be crooked. It always has been hell it might always bee without major changes in mindset there....and there isn't one thing Obama ever improved for anybody....most of those projects he fought to make US taxpayers pay for,,,,not Illinois taxpayers....were riddled with corruption and never completed and a huge waste of tax dollars. Good times wasn't a slice of real life. Made a great TV show ( I still like it)....but most slum dwellers aren't like that ficticious family.
Incidently I grew up poor.....I know too many poor people NOW for someone to pull the wool over my eyes about reality there. Most think they are entitled to everything, and have little respect for anything thats not their own. And yeah...they tear the hell out of housing projects or even sect 8 housing. A handfull might not....but thats true for most of them.
You have far more opportunity in a Chicago Project than you do in Rural Alabama or West Virginia....as a poor person.
Look up Appalachia....I know the culture well.