“On the first day of strikes alone, U.S.-led forces launched from ships stationed off the Libyan coast 112 long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles, which cost in the range of $1 million to $1.5 million apiece.”
A couple of Tomahawks would pay for a lot of fixing in Philly or elsewhere.
The millions given to the Palestinians would do more good here than in the Middle East but no one cries poverty when filling the Swiss Bank accounts of thugs.
The author rightfully laments the deterioration of a once vital city community but appears unable to articulate the awful truth that society is engaged in a slow suicide and won't tolerate being rescued.
“A couple of Tomahawks would pay for a lot of fixing in Philly or elsewhere.”
A few of those Tomahawks would be handy for the first stage rehabilitation of those blighted areas.
True, but how long would it STAY 'fixed'. Cabrini Green was touted as the answer to the sorry state of housing in Chicago, and its planners claimed it would give people 'hope' and help them change their lives. It didn't do anything of the sort. It was low-income, high-rise housing, and by the time the decision was made to tear it down, turned into a prison for the low-income decent people who were being tormented by the drug-using and drug-dealing thugs who also lived there.
In less than 30 years, the prevailing culture of many of the people who lived there ruined the place, the good intentions of the planners notwithstanding.