Nice that the city has so much money to spend on the Hill. (Pittsburgh: apartment, how much)

[gg]

Originally Posted by Aqua Teen Carl

Oh I think it's been tried. A bit too much actually. We continuously gloat on how free we are here yet we jail more people than any other country on Earth, many of them non-violent offenders.

Great chart. I think we have room to bump that up a bit. Most of the rest of the world doesn't have our problem with such huge racial divides. Most countries are more homogeneous. Therefore, we are going to have WAY more crime. Look at all the different kinds of gangs in LA for example. All this being said, as cool as your chart is, we can't really be compared to most places on earth.

[UKyank]

Dungeons should make a comeback

[bbrian12]

Originally Posted by SteelCityRising

Do I have empathy for the woman in East Liberty who is raising three children on her own because each of the "baby daddies" for each of her three children is in prison for dealing dope? Not at all. Do I have empathy for the woman in Sharpsburg who is raising three children on her own because her husband was killed by a drunk driver? You bet.

i dont feel bad for the east liberty woman, 3 kids 3 baby daddys?
did you not know he was a drug dealer? is that a planned family? NO

i feel bad for the kids cause they will gro up on the system and become part of the system when they have 3 kids to 3 fathers.

i do feel bad for the sharpsburg woman cause she prob planned to have a 3 kid family and it was taken from her cause of some idiot

[bbrian12]

if section 8 people didnt trash the projects in the first place us as the taxpayers would not have to build them a new ghetto every 10 years. how about give the people that work and deserve to have somthing a break once in a while instead of dumping 160 million into the ghetto.

[BrianTH]

Learning from other countries is unAmerican!

By the way, people with Section 8 vouchers have to pay 30% of their income for rent, and many recipients are working poor.

[UKyank]

We could emulate Saudi Arabia's crime & punishment system; their crime rate is extremely low.

[BrianTH]

Originally Posted by UKyank

We could emulate Saudi Arabia's crime & punishment system; their crime rate is extremely low.

Lots of developed countries get equivalent or better crime rates, particularly when you consider Saudi Arabia may be underreporting crime in its official statistics due to extrajudicial resolution processes.

[stburr91]

Originally Posted by BrianTH

Learning from other countries is unAmerican!

By the way, people with Section 8 vouchers have to pay 30% of their income for rent, and many recipients are working poor.

I thought it was 25%.

[BrianTH]

Originally Posted by stburr91

I thought it was 25%.

Housing Choice Voucher Program Section 8

The housing voucher family must pay 30% of its monthly adjusted gross income for rent and utilities, and if the unit rent is greater than the payment standard the family is required to pay the additional amount. . . . The PHA calculates the maximum amount of housing assistance allowable. The maximum housing assistance is generally the lesser of the payment standard minus 30% of the family's monthly adjusted income or the gross rent for the unit minus 30% of monthly adjusted income.

[gg]

Originally Posted by UKyank

We could emulate Saudi Arabia's crime & punishment system; their crime rate is extremely low.

Yeah Iraq was really low crime before we occupied it. Seems we could learn a few things from other countries, but like someone said, that would be unAmerican.