Sme things just piss me off

So I read this yesterday and it just bugs me. Its a story about how a city in my area is going to start defining what a family is and how many people can live in the house. The justification is that too many people in a house drain resources, cause too much trash per residence and their cars clog up streets.

Which may be true. Certainly when there are some truths to the fact that when a bunch of people live as roommates and they all have cars, the cars need to park somewhere. But if you read down, you see where a councilman talks abut immigrants moving in and people who've lost their houses moving in with friends and relatives. And you realize, it isn't about streets with too many cars parked in them or trash collection services that are over taxed. Its about keep the wrong sort of people out of town or at least marginalized to the "bad" parts where the code enforcement officers don't go.

And that's what pisses me off. In this world where people are struggling, in a world where young people face greater challenges in finding work that pays enough to support a house hold, we have snotty, exclusive, bigoted assholes changing town laws to keep out the immigrants and mutli-family house holds.

I would have been homeless or had to place my children in foster care if such a law existed in Neodesha. It seems the more I look around, the more I realize that there are forces, weather political or idealogical or supernatural, that seem dead set on preventing those that are down from getting up.