Are we to cast them out upon the streets? Are we not all concerned as our brothers keeper in providing decent housing for the aged. and handicapped. the crippled. the disabled veteran. the widower. at a price that they can afford to pay? How can we hold our heads high when we attempt to rehabilitate the decrepit shacks and villages in South Korea. in Japan. or Indochina at the same time that we neglect our aged at home. who. unlike these Asiatics are able and willing to pay rents within their financial means? While the original purpose of the Federal Public Housing Act was to provide decent housing in a good environment so that the families and children could get out of the slums and live in healthy surroundings. there is no logical reason why this same philosophy should not be extended to aged people who by chance or circumstances now find themselves unable to pay the high prevailing. existing. private rentals. Under the generalwelfare clause of our Constitution we are trying to promote a form of Government which advances the general welfare of all the people.
Identified stereotypes
Asiatics are portrayed as less deserving of aid than the elderly at home.