Education Secretary Meets With Chicago Gang Leaders: They Just Need Jobs

Cybercast News Service ^ | May 13, 2015 | 5:42 PM EDT | Penny Starr

[Olog-hai]

Education Secretary Arne Duncan said on Tuesday that he has met with gang leaders in his hometown of Chicago and they’ve told him that it’s a lack of jobs that keeps them on the streets.

“We have to have jobs for young people,” Duncan said at the National Summit on Youth Violence Prevention in Crystal City, Va. “I probably shouldn’t say this in a room like this, but occasionally when I go home I’ll sit down with some of the gang leaders—back home in Chicago.”

He said he asked them what was the “biggest impediment” to getting gangs to stop their illicit activities.

“It’s jobs,” Duncan told the federal government-sponsored event. “So we need to think about what we do at scale to create those kind of opportunities for young people who just have to make some money, want to do it in a positive way, but in too many places they don’t exist.” …

[Olog-hai]

Yup, the biggest destroyer of jobs says that gangstaz “need jobs”. If he really does “sit down with … gang leaders”, it is for more insidious reasons.

[Paladin2]

Like robbing bigger banks.

[clearcarbon]

"Education Secretary Meets With Chicago Gang Leaders: They Just Need Jobs"

Can't they just move to Mexico to take the jobs Mexicans won't do?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I can think of good jobs for them. When any of them are convicted of capital murder, the leader of a competing gang will act as his hangman, performing the actual, legal execution.

[Sasparilla]

Obviously, more money needs to be poured into Chicago to keep gangs from making “easy” money through crime. Thug life has more of an appeal than bejng on a time clock.

[logitech]

I thought the unemployment rate was 5.4 %

[Lizavetta]

This from the party that exports jobs via free trade agreements and attempts to import every low-skill foreigner on the planet that takes jobs from the yutes they purport to care about, plus utilizes the EPA to regulate companies out of business.

All of which adds up to fewer and fewer jobs.

[cowboyusa]

As his boss pushes the TPP monster.

[Tax-chick]

You left out raising the minimum wage.

[Sooth2222]

They have jobs!

"Why Do Drug Dealers Still Live with Their Moms?"

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Selling drugs pays them better than any Mcjob they could land.

[jonascord]

If the Stock Yards were still there, they could get jobs slamming a sledge hammer on a cow's head, or perhaps running a pistol range, although most of them can't hit a barn from the inside.

I can't think of much else they'd could do.

[dp0622]

“Deep down inside them there is good!”

Deeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar Officer Krupsky...” :)

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Maybe they need fathers. And caring mothers. And faith. And merit based public school teachers. Perhaps school vouchers. And an appreciation for the rule of law. Perhaps a working understanding of free market capitalism. The Constitution. Our nations history and heritage.

Then they could earn a job that matched their skills.

[Soul of the South]

No problem. The new trade deals will create millions of new jobs.

[boycott]

They need jobs but don’t want to work.

Also, most of them cannot pass a drug test.

[SECURE AMERICA]

Lack of jobs is the reason for gangs?
Wait.. Isn’t the MSM telling us that the Obama economy is soaring and unemployment is down and we are all going to get ponies for Christmas?

[tacticalogic]

The new trade deals will create millions of new jobs.

He'll have more millions of illegals with shiny new work permits waiting for them long before they're ever created.

[boycott]

I thought the unemployment rate was 5.4 %

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Good point. If they don’t have a job, it’s their fault.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Send them to to some 3rd world hellhole for 2 weeks. How about a refugee camp on the edge of where ISIS is killing people?
Then when they are back here; ask them if they still think they have a bad situation here.
Actually that would be good for many Americans.