The Criminal Welfare-Industrial Complex In Ames

From the Ames Tribune:

The Ames City Council may be getting out of the business of Section 8 administration.

A recommendation from city staff encourages the council to return local administration duties for the subsidized housing program to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to be assigned to another agency.

“It is important to note that the city’s relinquishment of the Section 8 housing program does not mean that the assistance would no longer be made available in Ames,” the staff report said. “Rather, HUD would decide which housing authority would assume administration of the program in our city.”

Staff will present its “very difficult recommendation” to the council during its meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 23, in Council Chambers at City Hall, 515 Clark Ave.

Staff will ask the council for direction as it prepares the budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1, 2011, for which staff estimates a $150,000 shortfall in federal funding to the city for its administrative costs.

It's not a very difficult recommendation because of this:

“This option does come with a major drawback in that the city will lose control over the eligibility requirements for program participants and other discretionary policies,” according to the report.

The option will result in the council losing the ability to establish more stringent program eligibility guidelines, such as background checks or preference to Ames residents, the elderly and families.

That's what the liberals in Ames want, right?

They don't want background checks or preference to Ames residents or the elderly. They want to bring in more criminals from Chicago, or maybe even import everybody who has been bounced out of the system in Iowa City.

Liberals would gladly give up local control in favor of bringing more dirtbags, drug dealers, and thugs.  More money for the criminal welfare-industrial complex!  Their hearts bleed for these criminals, their offspring, and the problems they cause.  It provides more money for schools, defense attorneys, parole officers, court administrative personnel, local aid groups, and so on.  Do you think I'm joking here?  It's a self-serving interest they have.  They'd gladly sacrifice a couple of administrative jobs for the Liberal Greater Good.