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• That's the ugliest remuddle I have ever seen.

• It's a shame these homes are not restored to their original glory.

  I'm just waiting for George and David to blame this on the unions again.

• I'm guessing the family that's in the market for a $49,000 home is probably not in the market for a full restoration.

• Once again, we are given a first-hand look at how the narrow-minded, quick buck mentality of our city's residents has allowed another priceless gem to fall victim to the forces of expediency and mediocrity. If the CAW displayed the same kind of concern for local architecture that it does for winos, panhandlers and deadbeats, Windsor would be a whole lot nicer to look at.

• You got your wish Guido. ;)

• Speaking of deadbeats, don't forget the expected 8,000 unskilled Mexican illegals from Florida that the Windsor Star reports will be getting free hotel stay, food, and welfare paid for by this city's social services just for claiming refugee status. If I went to the US, Germany, or France, and claimed refugee status, they wouldn't give me a two-week free vacation that includes free hotel stay, food, and welfare--I'd be deported right away for even trying a stunt like that. I'm gonna feel all warm and fuzzy after seeing my property tax bill skyrocket from it this year. How come I can't claim refugee status in Europe for a free vacation because of Canada's high taxes?

• Maybe the Mexicans are the solution to the problem of old home restorations - usually labor is a big part of the cost - well, here's your cheap labor, served up by the hot steaming plateful!

• We could always become Tuscon Arizona. The pay of an average workers wage is approx.$10.00/hr because of all of the illegals AND the low edcuation rate. Since Windsor doesn't have a hope in hell of coming out of this tailspin soon, maybe we could employ more people at a less wage in the construction/reno business. (tongue-in-cheek of course).

  Yeah, I'm really happy we are paying for these people too. 3% tax hike, 86% WUC hike and now paying for illegals...life is grand... If you don't work in this city.

• What do illegal immigrants have to do with this house? I guess once one starts grinding an axe, it keeps spinning even when it isn't appropriate.

• Did you read today's paper? So far, it's cost us $229,000 for these past couple weeks. Fee hotel stay. Free food. Free welfare. And, FREE LEGAL AID. WTF? It doesn't happen in any other country than Canada.

  Shawn, it's appropriate and here's what it has to do with it.
  It's because of CAW's influence that we have the highest per capital number of public housing and subsidized units owned by Windsor Social Housing. Toronto's per capita apartments isn't even as high as ours.
  It's because of CAW's influence that anyone can get welfare in this city. It's one thing if you're disabled. But, if you're able bodied and healthy, no problem. I've met students going to the University of Windsor and getting FREE welfare to pay their rent. That's includes full dental coverage. If this city's welfare policies weren't so lax, they wouldn't be getting it. That's from CAW's brainwashing. Why work for $10 an hour when it's so easy to get free welfare? CAW doesn't want scabs working for $10/hr, so let's make it easy for them to get welfare so they don't work. These are illegals who have the street smarts to have found work in the United States for the past 10 years while living as an illegal in Florida, so do you think they wouldn't be able to find jobs to pay for their own shelter while visiting Windsor? Give me a break. And, this takes a huge bite out of the budget for other worthy projects like the arts, heritage preservation, etc.

  It gets better.. The get rich quick real estate investors who have no concern for heritage preservation love to snap up these cheap houses and destroy them. The tax base motivates them to do this. True apartment buildings and high rises are taxed at three times the percentage rate than regular houses and these pseudo rental properties like the duplexes above, so let's make them as cheap to maintain as possible like adding styrofoam and vinyl siding to the exterior to save on heat and painting and carpentry while glorifying the neighbourhood with modern day trash.

  And, here's the best part. Since we've flooded the market with these units, we're gonna create a demand for it by renting them to everyone through easily obtainable city welfare programs like these Mexican Refugees applicants.

  So, the guys who wreck the city with cheap vinyl clad housing conversions win, the dead beat refugees on free welfare win, and the ones who sweat like hell paying for all in the city this loose. No wonder why so many people with money have moved to the county like Russell Woods in Tecumseh because they are so fed up with what's going on in this city.