Northwest Indiana Discussion

If you had a full sack instead of an empty one, you would have the gumption to say things to peoples faces, instead of hiding behind this forum. COWARD !!!

Sparks, the epitome of goodwill towards the residents of Hammond. While I am not a frequent poster, I occasionally peruse through the postings for pure entertainment. You are the poster boy for what is sorely lacking in Hammond, the shortage of his majesty's thugs and enforcers. You berate those who have invested their meager financial assets in this failing city. If you are just one example of the mindset of the rest of the administration, Hammond will go down with a speed and a scope that surpasses the decline of the city of Gary. Power corrupts, but absolute power corrupts absolutely.

That sparks copied/pasted that tripe hints that he believes it. Overlooking all other evidence, sparks finds a scapegoat and lays blame for social ills on "investors"! Investors. Coded language that thinly veils that which they wish they could say---"hook nosed moneylender." Perhaps sparks can give us a history of the failure of "public housing"? The trillions of dollars that have been spent to buy up low income housing, raze it, and erect new high cost low income human warehouses where social ills were nourished and flourished. Does he still blame out of town "investors" for Robert Taylor homes, Altgeld "Gardens", or Harold Ickes homes? One thing is sure though. Democrats can count on 99% of the votes from the inmates there.

So why don't you clarify what you mean by "hook nose money lender".

It's a ethnic slur, Lubu is a bigot and a troll.

I was sure we could count on these two liars to misrepresent someone's words. How can sparks not know it was a rhetorical question as posed by xmpt? Not sure why sparks says it's "ethnic" but it's a slur nonetheless. One not used by me but one that I have identified as affecting and being repressed by our pal sparks. Do the degenerates want to further degrade the dialog or will sparks respond to the conditions at Altgeld Gardens? Perhaps before using the word, sparks should check the definition of "bigot" and then wear that term that fits him.

Coming from a plat slob, who attempts to threaten people, intimidate, labeling a whole class of hard working people, labeling all property owners slum lords, is rather lacking enlightenment.

In fact it is acts of a bigot and a troll.

Just for public information .... and don't try and claim ignorance for what you said ..... .

hook nose
A deragatory term for a jewish person. especially one with a nose that looks like a fish hook. See also jew or kike.

Blame investors? There are only a few things that hold Hammond back more than McDermott's failed economic plans. Slumlords are one of them. They aren't investors, they are predators that take advantage of Hammond with no redeeming value at all.

Want to debate dense low income housing? They were created by white politicians in the 60s and 70s to segregate low income blacks (and later hispanics) in confined areas and keep them from integrating into white working class neighborhoods. Specifically in Chicago this was the tactic of Richard J Daley and his machine.

It was later undone by Richard M Daley, who sold the property off to his cronies without providing any substitute living areas in the city. Forcing them out to the South Suburbs and NW Indiana. This has DESTROYED these areas and caused huge influxes of crime.

These slumlords and property owners (distinction in a second) have milked the money, while being detrimental to the communities their properties are located in. Pure rentier capitalism and basically a theft to society. Section 8 properties (property owners that have to have at least standards) draw the poor on government assistance, but supply is limited. Forcing others to settle for cheaper properties or drawing those that do not qualify for government assistance due to criminal records.

Slumlords just draw more poor and uneducated residents to Hammond. Not that it needs any help on its own ......

Do you honestly think this "investment" is good for Hammond? Does the money stay in the community? Does it have any benefit to the community?

Seriously? I know it as derogatory and offered that someone else uses a euphemism to hide an animus. Can I say that you used a slur because you gave a definition of it? Of course not. I also slurred no one in the context that I used it. That aside, do you Matt have a problem with lending capital for interest? Rentier capitalism, as you call it, is in essence lending capital for interest. Do you consider that theft? Predatory?

In a city in which so many positions of responsibility are held by cronies that can't even read or write, you are lucky that you can attract slumlords to provide housing for those forced to stay in Hammond. A huge percentage of your population cannot wipe their noses or behinds without guidance and permission by LC Democrats. Those people, plus too many underused baseball fields, are supposed to be the basis for a renewed Hammond? Municipal officials are lucky they get a second glance from anyone at all.

Great post, Matt. Thank you for pointing out Lubu's bigoted remark. He unsuccessfully tried to blame his racist comment on me. That kind of trolling destroys intelligent discussion. Hope you have a healthy and prosperous 2014.

My calendar says it’s 2014, so why do so many of these comments look like they were written in "1984"? Really, up is down, yes is no, and war is peace. I somehow have been accused of a thoughtcrime for mere mention of a term with no personal intent to degrade but on the contrary, to defend a group from such. A writer righteously brands a label “bigot” on the accused while another indignantly wags their finger as they scold not to deny the thoughtcrime. They then go on to say that things were swell in these parts up until the neatly confined segregation of “low income blacks (and later Hispanics)” away from “white working class neighborhoods” was dismantled in Chicago, and the resulting forced relocation of that population to the south suburbs and NW Indiana, “DESTROYED these areas and caused huge influxes of crime.” See, in 1984, the pot can call the silverware black.

LU, the biggest bigot on this board is none other than a representative of Hammond, an official in Hammond, who thru his own stupidity stated a Munster man, attached out side of an east hammond bar, at 1 am was at fault, as he shouldn't have been in that neighborhood at that time.....

I have to go dig up the specific quote....

Then a man who is a representative of the city, who has the gross intellectual capacity to label landlords as scumbags.... it is rather apparent he doesn't understand the freedom of choice. It is apparent by his constant badgering, harassment and insulting other posters on this board.

It is apparent he doesn't understand the concept of choice, as he is one of the prime people behind a gestapo type mentality.



Sparks and his associates have worked at trampling what so many Americans have given their lives, to protect basic freedoms. 301