My other selling points:
* I'll work for half of Greene's $306,000 salary. If you keep his $40,000 bonus on the table, I'll take one-third - and no costly out-of-court settlements.
* I have almost 40 years of continuous employment at a prominent Philadelphia institution that (although it wasn't planned that way) turned out to be a nonprofit, like PHA.
* Ten years of what's called "higher education," eight at Brooklyn College (where I majored in "sextracurricular activities" and got it out of my system), followed by two years at St. Joe's (the Hawk will never die!), where I was an undistinguished member of the Society for the Advancement of Management. I was in management at that time. Like drug use, it was a youthful indiscretion. (There is no current drug use, aside from alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, Viagra and Ben-Gay.) The decade of study did not result in what they call a "degree," but reflects my stick-to-itiveness. I worked by day, studied by night, raised a family at the same time. Like Greene, I am a Type-A, 24/7 kind of guy.
* Also a quick study. I learned to use my cell phone in less than three months without finishing the instruction booklet. Did you finish yours?
The big problem with public housing, of course, is that it houses the public, specifically the poor, who are troublemakers, and I can prove it.
You move poor people into high-rises, and what do you get? Filthy, crime-ridden, graffiti-smeared, roach-and-rat-infested hellholes.
You move affluent people into high-rises and what do you get? Society Hill Towers.
