The blockage is mostly laziness. Get off your ass and go to work
Well......bye.
“Our Youth Need Help” No they don’t. They need to learn about manners, courtesy, sharing, a good work ethic and positive thinking.
underlying issues?....we all know what they are but we can’t say it out loud....
Nowadays, a business can locate almost anywhere ... and an area that can't present itself as a great place to do business won't even be considered for a new start-up or a relocation.
Locate my business in Ferguson? LOL. I'd just as soon invest in a grain farm in Zimbabwe.
Too late now... y’all just voted with your support of lawlessness.
You can beg in the streets because your only hope now is the dole ... into perpetuity.
Who on earth wants to come to YOUR community and invest, work, live?????
You are NOW the property of the United States of America welfare system. Good luck!
BYE!
Recovery from the blight after a riot usually takes a generation if it ever happens.
Paths to Successful Futures = Acting White
Nobody’s blocking anyone, honey; except yourselves.
[...can this small community be able to draw new business...]
Why would any one open up businesses there at his point. Cut them off and send a clear message that rioting-stealing-looting will not be tolerated.
Like those businesses had anything to do what so ever with the shooting. Easy targets for those wanting to get over on everyone else and blame their problems or “paths” as indicated in the above photo on everyone else instead of taking personal responsibility.
I would shut down everything - no pop stores - no cigarettes - no clothes - nothing...let them sit there in the comfort of that sewer and think about the damage they did over a thug!
“Looting. Violence. Racial discord. Poverty. Is this a place where anyone would want to open a business, build a factory or warehouse or launch a startup?”
Ladies and Gentleman, I give you Newark and Detroit; after July 1967.
As a St. Louis resident, the problems recently seen are much much more systematic. Sports franchises are only life downtown. Compounded by problem of idiotic law limiting geographic borders of the city.
Who would want to be among so many registered Democrats, filled with hubris, pre-conceived notions, anti-American propaganda, arrogance and a seething hatred for anything American implanted by Progressive masters?
Answer: Only other registered Democrats who look in the mirror and admire a brilliant, intellectual, really-really smart Progressive genius who has all the answers and hates knuckle-dragging, gun-loving, bible-thumping Christian morons from flyover country.
(Is that a place where a “capitalist pig” enterprise could exist in peace?)
IMHO
If I were a business owner Ferguson would be down near the bottom of my list. Somewhere around California, Detroit, Gaza, and Afghanistan.
Who is doing the cleaning up? Who is paying for it?
Bastiat's parable of the broken window should be remembered here.
What role model or business person will want to be in Ferguson without a lot of compensation for assuming the risk of being a community target?
The blockage is mostly laziness. Get off your ass and go to work
Bidness is all about location, location, location. Ferguson ain’t.
China, better economic potential than Detroit.
Shellean can start buy picking up that malt liquor can behind her.
Time for some of those wealthy black celebrities to step up to the plate. Who was there? Spike Lee? Who else? If they’re sincere and really care about this situation, THEY need to invest in some business in the community. Probably won’t, though, because then they can’t blame the problems on someone else.
The best advice to youth everywhere is the same, regardless of the color of their skin.
Stay in school, apply yourself, keep out of trouble, exhibit good manners, respect those in authority, find a church or community group with a good mentoring program, surround yourself with people who are successful, and choose positive role models.
When you get a job, be prompt, be courteous, be respectful, be dependable, and be well groomed.
Walter Williams has an article about the costs incurred by lawlessness. http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/williams122398.asp