Jimmy Carter is a more decent human being that any ReTHUG

[heaven05]

109. okay, here is why I

cannot stomach carter. 10 years or so ago, Habitat for Humanity bought or were donated some land across the street from me. Plenty of quiet space with lots of trees, greenery, habitats for many woodland animals, a place to meditate on and in. We had 13 houses total in my alcove at that time. HFH came in and just decimated all our woodlands and started building their houses. The noise and street disruption was excruciating. This disruption went on until there were 15 habitat homes. No community talk was offered about this project. The township just wanted more tax base so they didn't object. I mention that SOME families have had serious problems and that has caused continuing police problems. The problems are not confined to any one race or creed. The families that moved in are racially diverse and for the most part, nice, hardworking families. I cast no net dispersions. But what some brought into our quiet neighborhood is objectionable. Period.. I mean the whole HFH project ran roughshod over our objections to so many homes destroying the integrity of our neighborhood. I objected, along with one other brave neighbor to the township, they said tough. I wrote carter and national HFH about this situation. Never got a word back. The response after a meeting with the local HFH officials? Tough, we will build as many houses as we please, deal with it. All the idealism about HFH is admirable, yet out here in the trenches, it is a different story. That made me do research into the man carter that I didn't think about much before this happened. Okay, his early political career was not sterling enough for me. Still feel that way. But the organization he is prominently associated with and speaks for is not sensitive to the negative implications of their building willy nilly in established neighborhoods. I, essentially, have lived in a HFH village for the last ten years or so and I don't like it. This organization touts helping people get back on their feet and all that but care nothing about the integrity of neighborhoods they destroy. I know I'm opening up myself to more scorn, so be it. I have had to live through a total disruption of the neighborhood I enjoyed for 10 years before HFH, so I do not like him or his so called humanitarian efforts with HFH. My local politicians who would not even respond to my neighbors and my queries as to why no community involvement was asked for in the decision to destroy the ambiance of our area. So along with his not so sterling early political career and my personal introduction to his humanitarian efforts with an organization that feels no responsibility toward the neighborhoods they invade, no I don't and never will respect the man. I know firsthand about the outcome of one of his humanitarian efforts. So if my lack of respect for him makes me, a democrat, a bad person to be scorned because of my disdain for the way HFH runs roughshod over established neighborhoods with their building, then so be it. And I have been very contented with this site. I don't post that much, but I do respond to the OP's. Don't try to make me some kind of troll or something. I don't need you casting your implied dispersions. Some people on this site are good for that. The zimpig trial brought that home to me loud and clear