Have you ever been looking for a house or apartment to purchase or rent here in the City of Philadelphia? My fiancée and I are currently in the works of figuring out where we want to purchase a house and it's doubtful we'll stay in our neighborhood long because of the oncoming storm of Section 8. The first thing we even think of doing these days is reading an ad in its entirety, especially if it's in the now-minimalist Classifieds section of the paper or on Craigslist.

If we even see something that says "Section 8 OK", we instantly move on to the next ad. Why? Because Section 8 is an evil monster from the 70's that is still creeping up on neighborhoods and destroying them.

Michelle Malkin wrote about yesterday's mob scene in Atlanta where some 30,000 people formed a mob getting free handouts and basically furthering a stereotype. In her vastly superior-to-any-coverage-from-the-mainstream-media diatribe, she quote a housing policy expert:

Housing vouchers-in New York and across urban America-originated 30 years ago, with "Section 8" of the Nixon-era National Housing Act. The program's rationale was straightforward: instead of placing an aid recipient in a housing project-viewed as a failed experiment because of the projects' expense and disorder-the federal government would provide a voucher that subsidized the rent in a privately owned apartment. Conservatives have supported the voucher plan over the years chiefly because of its seeming free-market component, and because it does not impose on the government the considerable cost of building and maintaining public housing. But whatever Republican hopes, the voucher initiative operated from its inception just like any other no-strings-attached welfare program-and it continues to do so today, eight years after the nation ended the federal welfare entitlement and lifted hundreds of thousands of formerly dependent welfare mothers into lives of work and greater personal responsibility.

Almost alone among post-welfare reform social programs, Section 8 remains an open-ended benefit, with no time limit…

…While Republicans acquiesce in the Section 8 program's growth, urban liberal Democrats use the program's growing funding stream to waft benefits to their constituents, who can rely on them-literally-to pay the rent. In New York, this arrangement helps reelect Democratic congressmen Jerrold Nadler, Major Owens, and Nydia Velazquez, all in districts thick with Section 8 apartments. The result: increased dependency and the undermining of many New York neighborhoods-and many other neighborhoods throughout urban America.

If you ask anybody who is from the "old school" of Port Richmond, here in Northeastern Philly, they'll tell you that the dividing line between Port Richmond and Kensington is Frankford Avenue. A few generations ahead of that will tell you the diving line between Port Richmond and Kensington is the street that has Section 8 housing on it. That street is now Aramingo Ave., over half a mile away from the old line of demarcation. So, again, say what you want about the nature of Port Richmond residents before Section 8 reared its ugly head - but "undermined" is a great term to describe what's going on.

If I were to use the term "gentrification", I'd be called a racist - since that apparently only occurs to poor minorities. Never mind the fact that Port Richmond these days is lower-middle-class at best and the fact that a lot of these people on Section 8 housing are white.

As you know, I hate handouts and entitlements. Scenes like what we saw in Atlanta are coming here to Philadelphia. Section 8 housing is ruining neighborhoods. Aramingo Ave., once full of people keeping their pavements clean, taking pride in their front porches, is now turning into a street lined with beer cans, domestic disputes, haggard-looking women who feel the need to show off their scorpion tattoos on their upper thigh while smoking a cigarette and carrying a baby and just your typical dregs of society that come along with what Section 8 provides.

Mind you this isn't all attributed to Section 8 but when they say Port Richmond is becoming a "transitional" neighborhood, it's one of those annoying and politically "correct" ways of saying that the element is there.

These people are getting free rent, folks, on our dimes. And businesses probably see this too and say "Hey, I'm not moving into that neighborhood". So, people like me won't move into neighborhoods with Section 8 and won't spend our money there and the Democrats will point their finger and say it's my fault these people are in this situation. Get real.

Now, if people on this housing dole actually took pride in their neighborhoods and didn't complain that there wasn't a supermarket within 5 square miles (and then, when one opens, tear the place up and spray graffiti all over it within a month) - I wouldn't be complaining so much. Look at Chester, Pennsylvania, just to the south of Philadelphia. Look at the mob scene in Atlanta. Look at Detroit. If it's not corruption and malfeasance like not willing to cut City jobs that are stealing from taxpayers, it's handouts like these.

Section 8 needs to go away yesterday. People are so expectant of these entitlements that they don't do anything to better their lives and then just complain and cry racism when they want something. We are made to feel so much guilt about having jobs and being successful that people seem to forget that you can't pay for other people's problems if you run out money. You can keep taxing us until we're broke and the Fed can keep printing money and - boom - you've got Socialism.

I don't work hard to feed your family, I don't work hard so you can have a nicer TV and a nicer car than I do, I don't work hard so you can buy food on food stamps and have a Nintendo Wii. If everyone is clamoring for equality, let these people struggle to find work. It's the simple fact that most people on Section 8 housing and most people on welfare do NOT want to work and have created a whole culture (not even a subculture anymore) of "ghetto-chic".

This is not the America our forefathers wanted and this is not the America anyone with Common Sense wants. It is amazing how all those people lined up in Atlanta have that much energy to wait 2 days for a handout but not enough energy to FIND A JOB.

It's time to eliminate Section 8. Forever.

- AP

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