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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (135095)	7/27/2013 11:42:37 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 149317

"The war on poverty was lost on 1/20/81 Do you know if there are government housing projects in E. Palo Alto now?" Not now, not any the army moved out With the outbreak of WW I, the north side of East Palo Alto became a military training ground with only the V.A. hospital in Menlo Park still extant. In the 1940s, East Palo Alto was a farming community with many Japanese residents. During the war, the Japanese were forced into internment camps and they lost their land, belongings, and livelihoods. After the war, many African-American families were diverted to EPA, and during the civil rights movement of the 1960s, there was a cultural re-awakening. The city was almost renamed Nairobi in 1968 to reflect its population's African roots. [13] [14] There were 7,819 housing units at an average density of 2,992.9 per square mile (1,155.6/km²), of which 2,971 (42.8%) were owner-occupied, and 3,969 (57.2%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 2.1%; the rental vacancy rate was 13.3%. 12,628 people (44.9% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 15,373 people (54.6%) lived in rental housing units. en.wikipedia.org

To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (135095)	7/27/2013 12:19:42 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Do you know if there are government housing projects in E. Palo Alto now? I expect you to draw your own conclusions when I said that it is a success story when the Govt works with the private industry to better the lot of the people. I sense from your last two posts that you are trying to validate your "long held views" on projects and housing. Besides, why blame LBJ and stop there and not go back even further in history and blame those who brought in slaves. Instead, don't you think we should move ahead, see what worked instead of what didn't and put that into play for other E. Palo Alto type areas. I suppose that Obama tried injecting "Silicon valley type" thinking when he initially appointed Google Chairman Eric Schmidt to his inner circle. Unfortunately, he voluntarily quit and I assume he did so when he confronted the damn "political wings and bureaucrats" in DC. Look forward, not backward is the Silicon valley way.

To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (135095)	7/27/2013 1:04:22 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

We have a failed "war on poverty" in our history, Chinu, thanks to LBJ. We haven't failed. There are more middle class people of color than there ever were in the 1960s. Back in the 1960s, there were riots on a regular basis. The underclass rarely riots these days............that shows to some degree that progress has been made. Were mistakes made in spending..........of course. We are not talking about producing widgets..........we are talking about turning around an underclass that was 300 years in the making. Its not completely science.............a lot of it is art. Don't listen to the frigging Rs............they love making a case that affirmative action, civil rts legislation and spending on the poor has been a waste of time. I don't know the change in median incomes in E. Palo Alto but Chinu is right..............tax revenues have grown fairly dramatically for such a small, poor community: ci.east-palo-alto.ca.us I think its important to put E. Palo Alto in context. I've been thru there...........its a suburb but its a ghetto suburb. The more ghettoized a community, the longer it will take to turn it around. There are no silver bullets or quick fixes like Americans love.