On Baltimore: "We have to INVEST," "we have to do more," Anyone else SICK OF IT? (lawyer, speech)
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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.
But the ridicule flows the other way along Northeast 54th Street Miami, Florida, a strip of successful shops in the heart of this city's Little Haiti. There many black Haitian business owners speak condescendingly of black Americans, describing them as lacking in ambition.
''There is a distance, even a certain resentment, between American blacks and Haitians,'' said Dr. Ginette Dreyfuss Diederich, a Haitian who is a psychiatrist at Jackson Memorial Hospital here. ''There is even anger. Haitians still believe in the American dream, while American blacks do not.''
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.
I agree, government meddling in the free market has created a whole sub culture and wracked the middle class.
There is nothing to invest in, the people themselves have to raise themselves out of the gutter, stop the drugs, clean your life, raise your children to have self worth. It will never happen.
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!
I'm rather enjoying it myself. That is...watching folks like you get angry. LMAO
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Originally Posted by Govie
I think if you read between their lines it comes down to: We all want/need/deserve 40 acres and a mule...by today's standards a Ferrari and a mcmansion and freebies until death.
You cannot help those who will not help themselves.
This.
Also investment in time is much more important than just throwing money. Here in Texas many large churches have programs where volunteers go in the "bad areas" and mentor the young boys especially, and fix up neighborhoods, in an attempt to break the cycle.
There are programs where the children of men in prison are brought there so they can have relationships with their fathers; they spend time, shoot hoops together, etc. This is a great program for all involved, really worthwhile.
There is nothing to invest in, the people themselves have to raise themselves out of the gutter, stop the drugs, clean your life, raise your children to have self worth. It will never happen.
Hmm...didnt CVS pharmacy and alot of other businesses invest in the community, only to see thier stores looted and burned to the ground? Why in the hell would ANY company invest in a city that has no morals, no future, and idiotic leaders that care only about getting re-elected than helping anyone.
The TV talking heads on all networks except FOX News received the Democratic talking points and are busy pushing the narrative.
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