# Dumb trashy section 8 family down the block with the Republican Party Sign **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 27, 2015, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-trashy-section-8-family-down-the-block-with-the-republican-party-sign/735862 "2015-10-27T11:16:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BaldDudePeekskill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@BaldDudePeekskill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaldDudePeekskill)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-trashy-section-8-family-down-the-block-with-the-republican-party-sign/735862/1 "2015-10-27T11:16:36Z")
The legislators whose sign is proudly displayed in your trash-filled, weedy yard, next to the cans of PBR, and ghetto pit bull dog poop you don’t bother to pick up, are itching to severely limit the number of section 8 housing applications in our town. They also want to reevaluate the existing recipients of the benefit, as well. They are also aiming to close the after school programs several of your born-out-of-wedlock children attend, after eating the free breakfast and lunch these same men want to eliminate. Idiots. I am a bleeding heart liberal, but I almost hope these republicans win if it means you need to move out and reduce the blight in my community. Being poor doesn’t mean you can’t clean your yard, throw out the old sofas in your porch and pick up dog crap. My family grew up poor, in a housing project, but my grandmother also said, “Soap is cheap and water is free”… ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-trashy-section-8-family-down-the-block-with-the-republican-party-sign/735862/2 "2015-10-27T11:41:30Z")
To be fair, I have _no idea_ how to throw away a couch… ---
**Author:** ![Arcite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@Arcite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arcite)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-trashy-section-8-family-down-the-block-with-the-republican-party-sign/735862/3 "2015-10-27T11:49:19Z")
> [@BaldDudePeekskill](#): > > The legislators whose sign is proudly displayed in your trash-filled, weedy yard, next to the cans of PBR, and ghetto pit bull dog poop you don’t bother to pick up, are itching to severely limit the number of section 8 housing applications in our town. They also want to reevaluate the existing recipients of the benefit, as well. > > They are also aiming to close the after school programs several of your born-out-of-wedlock children attend, after eating the free breakfast and lunch these same men want to eliminate. All that sounds good to me. Maybe these people realize people like them are bad for society. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-trashy-section-8-family-down-the-block-with-the-republican-party-sign/735862/4 "2015-10-27T11:53:43Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > To be fair, I have _no idea_ how to throw away a couch… I have dismantled them, removed the hardware, put the cushions piece by piece into garbage cans, set some of the wood on fire in my fire pit, and carried manageable sized pieces to the end of the driveway. Sometimes it takes me 3 weeks to throw away a couch. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-trashy-section-8-family-down-the-block-with-the-republican-party-sign/735862/5 "2015-10-27T12:01:25Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > To be fair, I have _no idea_ how to throw away a couch… Throw it away? Why, it’ll be just fine on the porch. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-trashy-section-8-family-down-the-block-with-the-republican-party-sign/735862/6 "2015-10-27T12:03:11Z")
Took some stuff to my local recycling/trash collection center on Sunday, and saw people disposing of a couch. They stuffed the thing into the compactor just like it was a box or a bag of trash. It took a couple of crunch-shove-crunch sessions, but it disappeared into the holding hopper! Kind of fun to watch, actually 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-trashy-section-8-family-down-the-block-with-the-republican-party-sign/735862/7 "2015-10-27T12:13:46Z")
I don’t know about couches, but my parents once disposed of two broken recliners by simply leaving them at the curb…a pickup truck showed up late one night, and the next morning the recliners were gone. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-trashy-section-8-family-down-the-block-with-the-republican-party-sign/735862/8 "2015-10-27T12:20:38Z")
Sometimes ideology trumps practicality. They likely have deep, long-standing moral convictions about a capital gains tax cut. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-trashy-section-8-family-down-the-block-with-the-republican-party-sign/735862/9 "2015-10-27T12:23:30Z")
No offense, but you sound like an asshole, and so does you grandmother. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-trashy-section-8-family-down-the-block-with-the-republican-party-sign/735862/10 "2015-10-27T13:27:54Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > To be fair, I have _no idea_ how to throw away a couch… It’s easy; You just take it to the quarry and…oh, never mind. ---
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-trashy-section-8-family-down-the-block-with-the-republican-party-sign/735862/11 "2015-10-27T13:40:44Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > I don’t know about couches, but my parents once disposed of two broken recliners by simply leaving them at the curb…a pickup truck showed up late one night, and the next morning the recliners were gone. 🙂 This is a college town, I assume? When I had some extra furniture, I had a friend of min put a post on [freecycle](https://www.freecycle.org/) describing the items. It was like dropping a cow carcass into piranha-filled waters. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-trashy-section-8-family-down-the-block-with-the-republican-party-sign/735862/12 "2015-10-27T13:47:03Z")
I thought Section 8 was code for “they’re crazy”… ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-trashy-section-8-family-down-the-block-with-the-republican-party-sign/735862/13 "2015-10-27T13:49:19Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > No offense, but you sound like an asshole, and so does you grandmother. How could anyone possibly find offense in that?! ---
**Author:** ![inscrutable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a88e4f/32.png) [@inscrutable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inscrutable)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-trashy-section-8-family-down-the-block-with-the-republican-party-sign/735862/14 "2015-10-27T13:59:44Z")
Well, when the correlation of “poverty” to “living in squalor” was brought up in a previous thread, it was promptly pointed out that the working poor are simply TOO BUSY to clean up their yards… ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-trashy-section-8-family-down-the-block-with-the-republican-party-sign/735862/15 "2015-10-27T14:02:43Z")
And children born out of wedlock deserve your derision, why? What the hell did they do to you? Did they ask to be so born? How exactly do you know they were born out of wedlock anyway? Checked did you? You do kinda sound like an ass. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-trashy-section-8-family-down-the-block-with-the-republican-party-sign/735862/16 "2015-10-27T14:07:48Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > And children born out of wedlock deserve your derision, why? What the hell did they do to you? Did they ask to be so born? How exactly do you know they were born out of wedlock anyway? Checked did you? > > You do kinda sound like an ass. We usually allow for some poetic license in the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-trashy-section-8-family-down-the-block-with-the-republican-party-sign/735862/17 "2015-10-27T14:10:56Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > I thought Section 8 was code for “they’re crazy”… > **[Section 8 (housing)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_8_(housing))** > > Section 8 of the Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. § 1437f), commonly known as Section 8, provides rental housing assistance to low-income households in the United States by paying private landlords on behalf of these tenants. Approximately 68% of this assistance benefits seniors, people in families with children, and individuals with disabilities. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) oversees Section 8 programs, which are administered locally by public housing agencies (PHAs).\[2 ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-trashy-section-8-family-down-the-block-with-the-republican-party-sign/735862/18 "2015-10-27T14:16:49Z")
Self impossed tough love? If I don’t have the self motivation to get my shit together I’ll vote somebody in that will make me get my shit together. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-trashy-section-8-family-down-the-block-with-the-republican-party-sign/735862/19 "2015-10-27T14:18:49Z")
> [@BaldDudePeekskill](#): > > My family grew up poor, in a housing project, but my grandmother also said, “Soap is cheap and water is free”… Soap _is_ cheap but water, like lunch\* and freedom\*\*, isn’t free. \*There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch. \*\*Freedom costs a buck oh five. [Cite](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVkTmnJkAN8). ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-trashy-section-8-family-down-the-block-with-the-republican-party-sign/735862/20 "2015-10-27T14:32:10Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > I thought Section 8 was code for “they’re crazy”… That’s a myth. Klinger was stunning and brave. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-trashy-section-8-family-down-the-block-with-the-republican-party-sign/735862.md?page=2)