{"id":82665,"date":"2015-12-19T21:01:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T05:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=82665"},"modified":"2015-12-20T05:59:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T13:59:54","slug":"the-real-purpose-of-section-8-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=82665","title":{"rendered":"The Real Purpose Of Section 8 Housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/ted-cruz-raj-chetty-and-sioux-county-iowa\/\">Comments to Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>* Raj Chetty and his handlers may be perfectly aware that while moving section 8 dwellers into prosperous counties will do nothing to increase the rate of movement upwards for the dysfunctional, it will certainly bring down all of the indices of communal good health for the host populations.<\/p>\n<p>And that may be the real purpose of the exercise. By destroying the prosperity of these too-white counties the wrecking crew will have accomplished two things: they shall have brought everyone down to the same level and in the process destroyed any evidence that a state of meritocratic inequality ever had existed and\/or ever could have existed.<\/p>\n<p>* Does the equality of this county mean that they have a much more narrow standard deviation (IQ) than 15?! Small SD = Equality. The places with the most inequality have the greatest IQ disparity. If Sioux county is the most equal one, then it has to be the one with the least IQ disparity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments to Steve Sailer: * Raj Chetty and his handlers may be perfectly aware that while moving section 8 dwellers into prosperous counties will do nothing to increase the rate of movement upwards for the dysfunctional, it will certainly bring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=82665\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Comments to Steve Sailer: * Raj Chetty and his handlers may be perfectly aware that while moving section 8 dwellers into prosperous counties will do nothing to increase the rate of movement upwards for the dysfunctional, it will certainly bring down all of the indices of communal good health for the host populations. 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