Thursday, July 31, 2014

What Class Warfare?

       It appears that in the "Big Apple", you know, that city with the same name as it's state, New York, has a loophole in one of it's housing laws that allows for separate entrances for people from different stratospheres. So what's happened is some builders of apartment towers have built regularly priced apartments and low income priced apartments in the same building. Then they laid out the building so that if you rented a low income apartment, you have to use one entrance, which happens to be off an alley. On the other hand, if you rented one of the regular priced units, you get to use the main front entrance on the street.
       Now you may ask why the different entrances. Well if you're paying the full price, in other words, if you can afford the full price, you don't want to have to use the same entrance as those poorer folks, you know, the commoners. But them why build the building to accommodate those lessor priced units? Because the builders get special financing and grants to include housing for the poorer folks. So in order to satisfy the dignity of those wealthier clientele, just put two different doors in different locations.
       And you thought there's no class distinctions in America. Ya see how you eliminate any distinctions by not forcing richer folks to have to mingle with poorer folks as they come and go from their domiciles? It's the American way. At least as far as some folks are concerned. Now I suppose If I were very rich, I wouldn't want to have to speak with you anymore, if we had to pass in the foyer. And I suppose that if you were very rich and very snobbish, why then you wouldn't want to speak with me. It would be a great loss for you, while I'd be better off in the end.
       But now, some activist, socialist, buttinski has gone and rocked the boat, or in this case, the high-rise. Now there's a push on to change that law and require both rich and poor to use the same door. We'll even have to touch the same elevator button. More's the pity.

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