On Baltimore: "We have to INVEST," "we have to do more," Anyone else SICK OF IT? (illegal, Brown)
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All I heard today on all the Sunday morning news shows was "we have to invest in our inner city youth" and the like - just nonSTOP about it, am I the only one SICK OF THIS ****?
These people are a g-- damn DRAG on American progress...a complete abyss. We have spent and spent and spent and spent on these people and what do we get?
How about you people TAKE SOME RESPONSIBILITY and GROW UP - that way we wouldn't have to babysit your people like little children.
I'm sick of it!
Government programs are the problem, not the solution.
They have tried to infuse government money for five decades and we see the result.
Recent example - councilwoman in nyc proposed a bill making things like peeing in public, jumping subway turnstiles, etc a non criminal offense bc it 'unfairly effects the poor, minority community'
And it unfairly effects men. How many women pee in public?
End the drug war,compulsory unemployment (min.wage), food stamps and stop subsidizing single parent homes.
In theory Frank I agree with you. Realistically though, if we were to abruptly cut off those programs, if you thought the civil unrest from the events of Baltimore and Ferguson were bad, then just wait! I don't think that Americans are ready for the type of unrest that can happen. Now, having said that, if we don't take steps to start widdling away from these programs, and that includes giving away freebies to illegals, and playing the world cop...well... eventually they're going to run out of other people's money to spend, and then s*** will hit the fan!
Maybe if more people in America hadn't abandoned American made clothes to buy cheap stuff from overseas we could have kept more mill factories in places like Baltimore. At one time, Bethlehem Steel was the biggest employer in Baltimore before the steel industry left the States. Help themselves? When the unemployment rate is over 50% in some areas how are they going to help themselves? It takes money and contacts to relocate. It takes money to get a higher education. Big business globalized their business plans and THEY are the ones who left American cities behind to crumble. Investing in cities that have fallen on hard times helps us all and it's the right thing to do.
Over-regulating industries and the fact that unlike large mega-corps the smaller businesses can't absorb the costs of those excessive regulations, nor have the loopholes afforded to them like the mega corps, and there is part of the problem. Let's not forget businesses hiring illegals, as well the implementation of NAFTA.
What we need to do is enforce the laws; its not just inner city youth but even college age do riots and burnings for all kinds of excuses. your not going to see invest in ant such place as insurance and the problem will mean they go else where. Look at past riots like them. Unless we see indictments for looting and especially arson then society will decide as always nt to invest.
The problem is that Baltimore was a decent city with a long history, colleges, industry, and jobs. The people who live there destroyed it. Investing will do nothing.
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Obama's stimulus gave Baltimore $1.8 BILLION in 2013. So much for "investing".
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