Posted on 05/25/2012 9:05:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
For some reason, I thought about ‘The Bell Curve’ when I read your post.
I wish more people lived in cities. I want them to be attractive places for other people to live that satisfy their every whim.
It’s amazing that there is anyone out there that still thinks that the US has a future continuing as it is.
If you told the average person that a dictatorship was in the offing and that there would be mass violence and starvation in the US, with possible foreign intervention, they would look at you cross-eyed for about five seconds, and then ask you if you saw last nights American Idol.
The post America era is going to be a very dangerous place indeed.
Jean Quan is so inept she actually makes Dellums look good by comparison. And the same can be said of Dellums in comparison to Moonbeam.
Oakland is screwed. As is much of the rest of urban Northern California.
Less than 14% of the population have become a voting block that controls the future? Shouldn’t be so should it?
I mean, we have fought a great Civil War where more than 700,000 died for their proper freedom, they were mistreated, that tide was turned then more than that. For 150 years they have had opportunity. For 50 years they have had just about any benefit or advantage that could be given them. Money, advantage, laws in their favor, preference... how much further will we allow it to go?
“For some reason, I thought about ‘The Bell Curve’ when I read your post.”
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I don’t think we’re allowed to talk about the clear conclusions of that cornerstone work.....
After him the Mafia gave up on Baltimore. Schaeffer fixed up the Inner Harbor area, but crime was left to the less sophisticated locals down on "the Block".
The Detriotification of America proceeds apace...how Biblical!!!
Parts of it are already beginning to resemble Detroit. The site of a drive-in restaurant owned by Richard Nixon's brother has been a vacant lot for almost four years. Across the street from me is an abandoned auto dealership whose owner was so wealthy a few years ago that he purchased a street right-of-way from the city to expand his business. Down the road is a shuttered factory that manufactured medical equipment whose parking lot is going back to nature.
I pose the question: why would a reflective, far-seeing couple of the middle class have children in these times, knowing the kind of world they likely would grow up in?
And yet, if they don’t, then the children already here have no prospect of things ever getting better.
It’s a quandary.
What happened was that blacks were disproportionately living in poverty when the Great Society programs were enacted.
So black families were disproportionately affected by the Great Society —disproportionately trapped in the permanent entitlement class.
RE: Across the street from me is an abandoned auto dealership whose owner was so wealthy a few years ago that he purchased a street right-of-way from the city to expand his business. Down the road is a shuttered factory that manufactured medical equipment whose parking lot is going back to nature.
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Any idea what happened to these businesses? Did they simply close down or did they move? If they moved, to where?
Detroit - 83%
Cleveland - 53%
Baltimore - 64%
Memphis - 63%
New Orleans - 60%
St. Louis - 49%
Oakland - 28%
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html
Thank you for your post 44. That’s my major concern, i.e., “It’s amazing that there is anyone out there that still thinks that the US has a future continuing as it is.” I am very pessimistic about the future of this country. I think it has had its best days.
LOL!
Not where I live, Bunky.
Not only are there no street lights, there's barely any traffic lights where I live.
The unemployment rate in North Dakota is 3%.
Fast-food restaurants in South Dakota are paying hiring bonuses for want of workers, due to job growth outstripping worker influx.
If it's bad where you are, MOVE.
America’s concentrated Democrat parasite nests (”cities”) are now little more than wealth redistribution centers.
Congratulations, America. Nice voting.
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