JMJ
April 11,2019
Happy Birthday to my sister April
Georgina Jolibois, NDP Member of Parliament has sent us a pamphlet to tell us that the New Democrat Party has learned nothing , has changed nothing and has no intention of doing so. Their policies are old, out of date and are a proven failure. Every election they start the chant:” more housing, more housing ,more housing.” The others are apparently burned, destroyed, vandalised ,polluted, sub standard, or other.
Here are some of the many reasons why public housing is economically unsound, and morally untenable.
1. Public housing is unjust. Why should some people have a house given to them while others pay rent or house payments of $1000 a month or more or make house payments of a similar amount? If your answer is : because they are poor that leads to the question why are they poor?
2. Public housing creates poverty. Many women are afraid to get married because they will lose their house. With combined income or a man’s wages payments will be too high. Men and women fear they can’t afford to lose the credentials of poverty.
3. Public housing encourages shacking up; casual liasons have absentee fathers. Children grow up without the benefits of two long term, let alone for life parents. This creates harmed, rootless childen.
4. Public housing creates shoddy workmanship . It is out side the market system so builders can use substandard materials and procedures. Many houses have to be condemned due to leaking fuel tanks, harmful or inadequate insulation etc.
5. Public housing attacks pride of ownership, personal choice and commitment. One cannot paint, or renovate your public house. If you do so you may be kicked out. There is no individuality. All public housing have egg shell white paint which will turn to dirty egg shell white paint because there is no repaints... unless you’re special. The contractors never give the tenants a choice of anything because they buy in bulk. One can walk in any public house, and see the same linoleum in various stages of disrepair that was laid forty years ago.
6. Public housing encourages vandalism. If you can’t have a say in your “ home” environment you can at least make a statement by wrecking something. If the house doesn’t belong to you or your neighbour why not torch a mattress lying outside or write grafitti to get even with somebody ?
7. Public Housing doesn’t teach any home skills. Since we own our own home after an intense battle we and others have learned to repair plumbing, furnaces, toilets, taps , paint walls and paint outside trim. We are e able to provide work for local people and teach them skills. Some times we have to call in the professionals two hundred miles away . They don’t charge us ‘an arm and a leg” because they know the government isn’t paying for this.
8. Public housing attacks political choice, freedom of concience , freedom of association, and freedom of religion. We were told when we were subject to public housing rules that we can’t have visiting priests in our home, we can’t have a nephew who was given to our charge because “ we, that is the head of public housing , doesn’t want him.”. “ We” and company didn’t want our pro- life work,our Catholic school, our blog, our flowers, our landscaping, our camp fire songs , our conservative signs at election time and our refusal to acknowledge by accepting a public house we accept northern mafia control. Of course at that time there was no other type of housing available. We need freedom. We need homes . We don’t need any more public housing. Think again, Georgina. Gay
