Perhaps the better story is……

These poor people are trying to survive while many here live off the taxpayers dollar. Such as government contractors or working for the feds. With a nice pension and salary and medical care yet same people we are complaining about perhaps clean your house or mow your yard and have a hard time making it day by day, and now they are the enemy so to speak. Sad very sad the state this country has gone into. Maybe this is why the world seems to hate us. What happened to we are a country of opportunity??? and does not look down upon the less fortunate, just what happened to the days of people coming to our country for a new start especially in our nations capital.

How about many residents are having their American dreams stolen from them and their children by those who have no regard for our way of life?

Now that’s a very good story. Lees sounds like a member of the nimby set, if it does not occur in my backyard, I am ok with it…

“lives stolen”

wtf you reading boy ? go back and read it again..

what do jobs and pensions have to do with zoning violations anyway ?

If you trash the neighborhood you get in trouble. That’s how it works. Act with dignity and you will get treated with dignity.

Lee,

For the record, I clean my own house, I mow my own yard and I struggle to survive in our current economic environment. I do not look down upon people who are making a legitimate and legal effort survive, I look down on those who are wantonly irresponsible as well as those who exploit the poor you are referring to.

Ms. Garman’s article featured a residence owned by an “investor” who bit off more than she could chew. She is an irresponsible slum lord who has seen foreclosure on three other local homes after trashing them by running boarding houses in them. As recently as April, she charged at least 9 of the poor men, 3 of the poor women and several of the poor children (including an infant) you refer to rent on a rolling basis for floor space. For their rent payment, they got to live in piles of garbage, without heat, and with a toilet for use on the back patio. How many times Lee have you and your children personally provided meals to children hanging out of second story windows begging for food because their parents left them for more than a day locked in house without even a phone and no food? This is capitalism in its purest form, as these were the children of the employees of the property owner’s illegal house cleaning business and before than her carpet business. Businesses for which she did not legally register or pay taxes, employment or otherwise. I’m sure the pension and benefit plans she provides are stunning. She probably has the cadilac of worker’s comp too. All of these poor have as their role model their beneficent employer and landlord who appears to them to have achieved the American Dream. Is it any wonder they have no respect for the law or acceptable social norms in our community?

Dan where are the pictures of a tree lined blvd with the Iraqi’s kids playing????? our soldiers have done a phenomenal job but they are also stressed and it is time to have them heal and come back to America. In a way it is no different then sterling we must all heal. We all are people of the planet and we all should be respected. no more no less

“We all are people of the planet and we all should be respected.”

Unless of course you are white and making more than $100k a year..

Dan a wonderful video thanks for the link.

Well I assume your son was in the military and I want to thank him for his and all the others over there for their service in putting their lives on line to protect us.

But it is the leadership of our country that got us into this mess starting with Bush.

Now the financial markets are beginning to collapse and next week is going to be a very interesting week in the banking and stock markets.

This article in the WP “”"”Immigrant Workers Vital, Va. Firms Say”"”"” This article is also in a way a reflection of Sterling and how important the immigrants are to our economy legal or not the have become an important part of how fragile everything is and the dependence of everyone.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/12/AR2008071201622.html?nav=rss_metro