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Originally Posted by Busch Boy
As long as the crime stays contained, it's not really a problem.
What we should really do is rehabilitate these areas. It'll be VERY hard, but not impossible.
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Problem with Jersey is, amongst other things, no one ever addresses the route of the crime problem, which is poverty. Lower or eliminate property taxes on new industrial projects whp promise to hire 30% from the under-employed urban poor (aka, ghetto people) expand Vocation Schools in poor areas, and concentrate police efforts on the top of the chain criminals, the hard-core gang-bangers and big-time drug dealers (most of whom live in the suburbs now and only work in the ghetto) But, Jersey has never been a "problem solver" and has always, instead, just moved the problem around.
Take New Brunswick...they celebrate the projects getting demolished and what happens to the people who lived there? They're all on Section-8 now! Big deal, their still on a government program because they cant find jobs and affordable housing in central Jersey, unless it's in the heart of the ghetto, and who the hell wants to raise their kids there? They just fall into gangs and crimes and the whole cycle continues.
Alas, Jersey is too corrupt to ever elect someone to actually DO SOMETHING. Christ, we have so much potential! We should be running rings around most states, but still, the poor get poorer and the rich get richer, and no one in power seems to understand that if you do something about the MOST IMPOVERISHED, you will help EVERYONE, as those people become a new consumer market...
Nothing angers me more than hearing some talking head on the tube talking about a new market opening up in China or India. What about the market right here? Give those people the blue-collar jobs that those hacks shipped overseas back, and we will get an new market in the form of those "ghetto people" that will increase the wealth of the entire state and country.
But no, instead, we have a government that does soundbite politics and never actually does the work of fixing the damn long term problem.