“Well said. To which I’d add: There are simply no decent full-time jobs for anyone living in the inner cities. Fifty years ago, there were choices: work in a mill, in a factory, or perhaps at the railroad.”
This too is the fault of the nanny state. When I grew up there were plating shops all over town, mostly with five or six people. But all those were shut by EPA regulations. The EPA, taxation, state benefits requirements, free government lawyers for your racially aggrieved employees have driven the companies, and thus the jobs, offshore. They won’t come back until the government is cut down in size and scope. Frankly, I don’t see that happening. As Reagan said, “nothing approaches immortality more than a government program.”
Really? The ‘nanny state’...LOL! No, its not the nanny state at fault. They simply supply the bait. Its those who have no morals or ethics that snap that bait up...to their own demise. We’re the problem and nothing will change until we decide not to enrich ourselves by $ taken from our neighbor. If we continue failing to take responsibility for our own actions how will we continue as a country? A natural result of self reform is govt reform.