Army Of Peggys

As a relic ourself, & a Section Eight recipient, we refuse to be arsed to refudiate (Look, we made up a word, we're fucking Shakespeare!) the claptrap excerpted by Michelle Malkin from boilerplate about will-sapping entitlements.

[Section Eight] is a welfare-state relic. Housing policy expert Howard Husock at the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal exposed the entitlement failure several years ago

We just bet he did.

But the real fun is the little secrets Malkin has w/ her tribe.

Remember Peggy the Moocher, the Obama supporter who couldn’t wait for her government savior to usher in the Age of Bottomless Household Entitlements?

Now, imagine thousands of Peggys crowded together on the streets demanding their cash money.

Oh, imagine. "Cash money." That's what the coloreds say, you know. (We're lost as to "crowded together on the streets." Does she mean crowding together? Do crowds make her nervous? Or just more than two Others crowding any given location?) Give you a delicious little frisson there? One is never so alive as when menaced by Mooching Peggys, is one? And don't think they aren't menacing! Mme. Malkin goes on w/ three paragraphs from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, one of which indicates that fights broke out in the crowd of thousands, some of who'd been waiting for two days. The last paragraph is police porn, w/ this sentence tossed in: "Firefighters and EMTs were attending to people who were overheating in the sun."

Savages, w/ pitchforks & paving stones, storming the welfare office for CASH MONEY! Or, tired hot people lined up for something more important to them than the first screening of a George Lucas blockbuster may be to middle-class suburbanites. Or the standard (even when the economy is in better shape) news item of thousands showing up for scores of new jobs when a service/retail prison opens. That could be attributed to Obama as well, obviously, if Malkin ever mentioned such events. At the very least she could call them a mob.

And let us reassure you that "The mob [that] was waiting to collect on Section 8 vouchers" was not "collecting on" anything. Voucher recipients get to pay about a third of their income toward rent, & the gummint makes up the difference, w/ a fairly low ceiling on what the total rent can be. No cash involved. This reporter would still be on the streets (Best-case scenario: Board & care w/ other loons, a room-mate. Gaaahh!) or at least in a park, if not for Section Eight. Mooching rules, & we sure have it sweet!

We must speculate as to what Mme. Malkin's solution to the problem of savage welfare mobs is, especially as it's sure to worsen once some austerity is imposed around here. Perhaps the establishment of camps away from the temptations of the city, where the value of a hard day's work could be instilled in the mob. Whattya say, Michelle?

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