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user-inactivated  ·  485 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Insurance companies in NYC deny coverage to buildings with subsidized tenants

    Capital raises rents

    and the state housing benefits

    so you can fiddle around a bit

    with the iron law of wages

    and even pay less in salary

    than the price of food and rent

    because the state is so happy to intervene

    if the cost of living has become

    all too expensive





kleinbl00  ·  485 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah let's not mince words - if someone else is subsidizing your housing they're going to make it suck for you. "Means-tested" is conservative-speak for "make it humiliating."

But I'll point out that Swedish punk sounds like fucking REM compared to American folk.

    I suppose that Old Man Trump knows just how much racial hate

    He stirred up in that bloodpot of human hearts

    When he drawed that color line

    Here at his Beach Haven family project

    Beach Haven ain't my home!

    No, I just can't pay this rent!

    My money's down the drain,

    And my soul is badly bent!

    Beach Haven is Trump’s Tower

    Where no black folks come to roam,

    No, no, Old Man Trump!

    Old Beach Haven ain't my home!

    I'm calling out my welcome to you and your man both

    Welcoming you here to Beach Haven

    To love in any way you please and to have some kind of a decent place

    To have your kids raised up in.

       
    Beach Haven ain't my home!

    No, I just can't pay this rent!

    My money's down the drain,

    And my soul is badly bent!

    Beach Haven is Trump’s Tower

    Where no black folks come to roam,

    No, no, Old Man Trump!

    Old Beach Haven ain't my home!