Several years ago, we lived in a fairly upscale neighborhood, were renting a house for $1,300 a month. Next door was a two-story house that was owned by a lazy Vietnamese couple who did absolutely NOTHING to maintain it, and they were renting it out to a black family for $1,500 a month.

We found out it was Section 8 - the renters were paying $300 a month - TAXPAYERS were paying the balance to the owners.

Point: Many people in America, living on welfare and gov assistance, are living pretty high on the hog.

But even though they're living in better areas, you can count on them eventually trashing it out . . . those renters, little by little, moved in more family members, strung a clothesline across the backyard, put crappy old furniture out in the front yard . . . and that one propery de-valued the entire neighborhood.

There are apparently no limits now in some states on Section 8 housing, so to everyone who buys or rents a house in what "appears" to be a nice, safe neighborhood: BEWARE the government-sponging spoilers.