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Revisting Disaster
May 1, 2015, 1:10:03 AM5/1/15
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If I didn't know better, I'd think this was Beirut in the
nineteen seventies. But, in reality, it's the current state of
the housing for which Barack Obama claims responsibility as a
"community organizer." It turns out the developers enriched by
his government-funded subsidies did a heck of a lot better than
the folks who once lived here.
http://bp1.blogger.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/SGzR9Jz_CmI/AAAAAAAAHKA/GCFW
fZZr_sk/s400/080703-grove-parc1.jpg
I say "once", because the Boston Globe ("Grim Proving Ground for
Obama's Housing Policy") calls many of the units "uninhabitable".
As a state senator, the presumptive Democratic presidential
nominee coauthored an Illinois law creating a new pool of tax
credits for developers. As a US senator, he pressed for
increased federal subsidies. And as a presidential candidate, he
has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing
Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million
a year.
http://bp2.blogger.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/SGzR9clPnZI/AAAAAAAAHKI/xdPQ
nB0VZkM/s400/080703-grove-parc2.jpg
But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across
Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal
subsidies - including several hundred in Obama's former district
- deteriorated so completely that they were no longer habitable.
http://bp3.blogger.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/SGzR9XysPUI/AAAAAAAAHKQ/8Hiu
cBolE4M/s400/080703-grove-parc3.jpg
Grove Parc and several other prominent failures were developed
and managed by Obama’s close friends and political supporters.
Those people profited from the subsidies even as many of Obama’s
constituents suffered. Tenants lost their homes; surrounding
neighborhoods were blighted.
Progressive blogger River Daughter put it succinctly:
In terms of concrete accomplishments, Obama and “hundreds of
other organizers” were not able to transform the South Side
neighborhoods or bring in new industries to provide jobs...
http://bp1.blogger.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/SGzR9vCReiI/AAAAAAAAHKY/Ct0T
mRF1uRE/s400/080703-grove-parc4.jpg
Obama’s most commonly cited achievement was in forcing the city
to begin testing for asbestos in all city apartments.
Regarding Obama's asbestos assertions, the L.A. Times alludes to
the real story:
...critics claim Obama, now 46, exaggerates his accomplishments,
particularly in spearheading asbestos cleanup at a low-income
housing project. He omits from his account of that fight a
longtime community activist who many people say played a
significant role.
http://bp2.blogger.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/SGzR9o062RI/AAAAAAAAHKg/Lc_4
dvgS694/s400/080703-grove-parc5.jpg
And for all his emphasis on the value of grassroots organizing,
Obama eventually decided he also needed a law degree to enact
lasting change, attending Harvard University... Further blurring
the picture are his descriptions of community organizing in his
youthful memoir, "Dreams From My Father," in which he admits he
disguises names, creates composite characters, switches some
chronologies and uses "approximations" of dialogue.
I can see why.
http://bp1.blogger.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/SGzSDbxqf_I/AAAAAAAAHKw/Rj2i
WPLmgys/s400/080703-grove-parc-playground.jpg
Look at this beautiful playground, with all of children
frolicking; they're so care-free and so delighted that Barack
Obama's community-organizing has helped them at the expense of
his developer friends.
The squat brick buildings of Grove Parc Plaza, in a dense
neighborhood that Barack Obama represented for eight years as a
state senator, hold 504 apartments subsidized by the federal
government for people who can't afford to live anywhere else.
http://bp0.blogger.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/SGzidTSFNWI/AAAAAAAAHK4/JipA
kiFJ32U/s400/080703-grove-parc-c1.jpg
But it's not safe to live here.
http://bp2.blogger.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/SGzidlnCjiI/AAAAAAAAHLA/EQ5o
JHIe_bg/s400/080703-grove-parc-c2.jpg
About 99 of the units are vacant, many rendered uninhabitable by
unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage. Mice
scamper through the halls. Battered mailboxes hang open. Sewage
backs up into kitchen sinks. In 2006, federal inspectors graded
the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale - a
score so bad the buildings now face demolition.
http://bp3.blogger.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/SGzid2Xu5rI/AAAAAAAAHLQ/7vLR
7RJ01As/s400/080703-grove-parc-c4.jpg
Grove Parc and several other prominent failures were developed
and managed by Obama's close friends and political supporters.
Those people profited from the subsidies even as many of Obama's
constituents suffered...
http://bp2.blogger.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/SGzSDWY_bLI/AAAAAAAAHKo/50AW
0vyig2g/s400/080703-grove-parc6.jpg
As a community organizer, Obama's a hell of a public speaker.
The poor people living here have gotten the shaft from Obama and
his developer buddies. And the mainstream media couldn't care
less.
I think a video tour of the area would make one heck of a
campaign commercial for the GOP.
Update: Ace nails it:
Kaus calls this "Obama's Katrina," explaining that if Obama is
running on his record as a community activist and advocate, it's
a pretty big deal a housing project he had his hand in is an
almost-unlivable slum... Perhaps Obama had good intentions here.
Trouble is, he has a decidedly thin resume, and one of the
biggest bullet points on it reads Miserable Failure.
Anonymous said...
Yet....
He's our president now. I'm dumbfounded.
4:29 PM
Anonymous said...
Good argument, but....
Your case is deteriorated because the buildings in the pictures
you used are 50, 40, and 30 years old.
How much of chicago's history does he "own" and how much are you
"assigning" him?
Not that I like him, but you need to use better cases.
12:40 PM
directorblue said...
@Anonymous #2 - yes, dumbass, because high-res satellite mapping
for consumers was available 30, 40 and 50 years ago.
Gee, you're dumb.
9:34 PM
Anonymous said...
director blue: the BUILDINGS are old, not the photos.
7:00 PM
Anonymous said...
To the dumbass who thinks they pictures are from "30, 40, and 50
years ago" here's a news flash:
Pictures 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 are the SAME PICTURE cropped and
rotated in different ways (you can see the same 3 cars in each
photo) plus those are late 90's cars, hardly from "30 years ago"
Wheel carts and the hairstyles in the other picture are far more
recent than the 80's.
I know you dont want to see your dear hero Osama portrayed for
the scumbag he is and you'll rationalize it away anyway you can,
but you can't polish a turd.
10:20 PM
Anonymous said...
Showing Chicago slums does not reflect on anyone but the owners
of the building, whether it is the corporate or private sector.
He never claimed that he owned high-rise apartment buildings,
did he? He was not the city building inspector. You might want
to check with writers and editors who have studied and have
degrees in city planning. You are confusing young people.
8:28 PM
Anonymous said...
Obama may not have "owned" the buildings but his "organizing" of
the community - ostensibly to improve it - was his only claim to
fame when he ran for the senate and for the presidency. In most
jobs, results matter. If I left the books at my previous jobs in
a shambles, I doubt that I would be asked to keep books
elsewhere. But Obama can "organize" a community, leave it in the
slum condition in which it was to begin with, and say that he
did a great job! Even the NYT doesn't write much about the
results he achieved as a community organizer - because there
were scant few.
9:27 AM
Anonymous said...
Can you say "Valerie Jarrett"?
5:53 AM
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nineteen seventies. But, in reality, it's the current state of
the housing for which Barack Obama claims responsibility as a
"community organizer." It turns out the developers enriched by
his government-funded subsidies did a heck of a lot better than
the folks who once lived here.
http://bp1.blogger.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/SGzR9Jz_CmI/AAAAAAAAHKA/GCFW
fZZr_sk/s400/080703-grove-parc1.jpg
I say "once", because the Boston Globe ("Grim Proving Ground for
Obama's Housing Policy") calls many of the units "uninhabitable".
As a state senator, the presumptive Democratic presidential
nominee coauthored an Illinois law creating a new pool of tax
credits for developers. As a US senator, he pressed for
increased federal subsidies. And as a presidential candidate, he
has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing
Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million
a year.
http://bp2.blogger.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/SGzR9clPnZI/AAAAAAAAHKI/xdPQ
nB0VZkM/s400/080703-grove-parc2.jpg
But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across
Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal
subsidies - including several hundred in Obama's former district
- deteriorated so completely that they were no longer habitable.
http://bp3.blogger.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/SGzR9XysPUI/AAAAAAAAHKQ/8Hiu
cBolE4M/s400/080703-grove-parc3.jpg
Grove Parc and several other prominent failures were developed
and managed by Obama’s close friends and political supporters.
Those people profited from the subsidies even as many of Obama’s
constituents suffered. Tenants lost their homes; surrounding
neighborhoods were blighted.
Progressive blogger River Daughter put it succinctly:
In terms of concrete accomplishments, Obama and “hundreds of
other organizers” were not able to transform the South Side
neighborhoods or bring in new industries to provide jobs...
http://bp1.blogger.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/SGzR9vCReiI/AAAAAAAAHKY/Ct0T
mRF1uRE/s400/080703-grove-parc4.jpg
Obama’s most commonly cited achievement was in forcing the city
to begin testing for asbestos in all city apartments.
Regarding Obama's asbestos assertions, the L.A. Times alludes to
the real story:
...critics claim Obama, now 46, exaggerates his accomplishments,
particularly in spearheading asbestos cleanup at a low-income
housing project. He omits from his account of that fight a
longtime community activist who many people say played a
significant role.
http://bp2.blogger.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/SGzR9o062RI/AAAAAAAAHKg/Lc_4
dvgS694/s400/080703-grove-parc5.jpg
And for all his emphasis on the value of grassroots organizing,
Obama eventually decided he also needed a law degree to enact
lasting change, attending Harvard University... Further blurring
the picture are his descriptions of community organizing in his
youthful memoir, "Dreams From My Father," in which he admits he
disguises names, creates composite characters, switches some
chronologies and uses "approximations" of dialogue.
I can see why.
http://bp1.blogger.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/SGzSDbxqf_I/AAAAAAAAHKw/Rj2i
WPLmgys/s400/080703-grove-parc-playground.jpg
Look at this beautiful playground, with all of children
frolicking; they're so care-free and so delighted that Barack
Obama's community-organizing has helped them at the expense of
his developer friends.
The squat brick buildings of Grove Parc Plaza, in a dense
neighborhood that Barack Obama represented for eight years as a
state senator, hold 504 apartments subsidized by the federal
government for people who can't afford to live anywhere else.
http://bp0.blogger.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/SGzidTSFNWI/AAAAAAAAHK4/JipA
kiFJ32U/s400/080703-grove-parc-c1.jpg
But it's not safe to live here.
http://bp2.blogger.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/SGzidlnCjiI/AAAAAAAAHLA/EQ5o
JHIe_bg/s400/080703-grove-parc-c2.jpg
About 99 of the units are vacant, many rendered uninhabitable by
unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage. Mice
scamper through the halls. Battered mailboxes hang open. Sewage
backs up into kitchen sinks. In 2006, federal inspectors graded
the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale - a
score so bad the buildings now face demolition.
http://bp3.blogger.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/SGzid2Xu5rI/AAAAAAAAHLQ/7vLR
7RJ01As/s400/080703-grove-parc-c4.jpg
Grove Parc and several other prominent failures were developed
and managed by Obama's close friends and political supporters.
Those people profited from the subsidies even as many of Obama's
constituents suffered...
http://bp2.blogger.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/SGzSDWY_bLI/AAAAAAAAHKo/50AW
0vyig2g/s400/080703-grove-parc6.jpg
As a community organizer, Obama's a hell of a public speaker.
The poor people living here have gotten the shaft from Obama and
his developer buddies. And the mainstream media couldn't care
less.
I think a video tour of the area would make one heck of a
campaign commercial for the GOP.
Update: Ace nails it:
Kaus calls this "Obama's Katrina," explaining that if Obama is
running on his record as a community activist and advocate, it's
a pretty big deal a housing project he had his hand in is an
almost-unlivable slum... Perhaps Obama had good intentions here.
Trouble is, he has a decidedly thin resume, and one of the
biggest bullet points on it reads Miserable Failure.
Anonymous said...
Yet....
He's our president now. I'm dumbfounded.
4:29 PM
Anonymous said...
Good argument, but....
Your case is deteriorated because the buildings in the pictures
you used are 50, 40, and 30 years old.
How much of chicago's history does he "own" and how much are you
"assigning" him?
Not that I like him, but you need to use better cases.
12:40 PM
directorblue said...
@Anonymous #2 - yes, dumbass, because high-res satellite mapping
for consumers was available 30, 40 and 50 years ago.
Gee, you're dumb.
9:34 PM
Anonymous said...
director blue: the BUILDINGS are old, not the photos.
7:00 PM
Anonymous said...
To the dumbass who thinks they pictures are from "30, 40, and 50
years ago" here's a news flash:
Pictures 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 are the SAME PICTURE cropped and
rotated in different ways (you can see the same 3 cars in each
photo) plus those are late 90's cars, hardly from "30 years ago"
Wheel carts and the hairstyles in the other picture are far more
recent than the 80's.
I know you dont want to see your dear hero Osama portrayed for
the scumbag he is and you'll rationalize it away anyway you can,
but you can't polish a turd.
10:20 PM
Anonymous said...
Showing Chicago slums does not reflect on anyone but the owners
of the building, whether it is the corporate or private sector.
He never claimed that he owned high-rise apartment buildings,
did he? He was not the city building inspector. You might want
to check with writers and editors who have studied and have
degrees in city planning. You are confusing young people.
8:28 PM
Anonymous said...
Obama may not have "owned" the buildings but his "organizing" of
the community - ostensibly to improve it - was his only claim to
fame when he ran for the senate and for the presidency. In most
jobs, results matter. If I left the books at my previous jobs in
a shambles, I doubt that I would be asked to keep books
elsewhere. But Obama can "organize" a community, leave it in the
slum condition in which it was to begin with, and say that he
did a great job! Even the NYT doesn't write much about the
results he achieved as a community organizer - because there
were scant few.
9:27 AM
Anonymous said...
Can you say "Valerie Jarrett"?
5:53 AM
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