“Landlords don’t want teenage girls, because teenage girls bring teenage boys,” says Latricia Mosley, a former public-housing resident now living in a Section 8 house (“Near West/South Gazette,” June 1). “They don’t want teenage boys, because they’re worried about gangs. And believe it or not, some landlords don’t want married couples. So there’s a lot of discrimination where there’s supposed to be equal-opportunity housing.”
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Why the Bush twins’ underage drinking is a public issue, according to Sam Smith in the “Progressive Review” (May 31): “The growing exemption of the powerful and rich from the laws of the land combined with zero tolerance towards the weak, poor and vulnerable is one of the clearest signs of America’s sickness and entropy. This is not an ideological matter and to view it as such contributes to the insanity, for it creates a kind of moral vote pairing, i.e. we won’t talk about Roger Clinton if you don’t talk about the Bush twins. This exonerates celebrity and punishes obscurity….
Providers and insurers have gotten the message that consumers demand cost containment.’ This claim, based on what Dranove dubs the ‘survivor principle,’ represents the pure form of economic functionalism, which assumes that whatever is, is right.”
