[Moderate right-winger]

Good Lord! How can we regulate illegal immigration
if we can’t even handle our very own delinquent citizens?

[theDentist]

... working for $7 per hour at McDonald's can't compete with $300 per day selling drugs on the streets.

Yes, but there's no risk of another franchise wanting that particular hamburger dealership'd turf by coming in and shooting the cashiers, cooks and customers down during a drive thru.

[There's millions of'em]

..."Ironically, the scandal plagued Heritage Square project in Pasadena is proposing to build affordable housing by removing land owned by a church - a mediating social structure."

My experience is that "churches" often own much of the property in inner city poor areas. They can afford to hold it, because of favorable tax treatment.

The article suggests this project is replacing a "church", but I would doubt that is the case.

[P-40]

$300 per day selling drugs on the streets.

Is that gross or net?

[Wheee The People]

To Diane Segura of the Pasadena YWCA it is because there is an income "disparty" between the rich and the poor.

Nonsense. Utter nonsense. As Walter Williams and others have pointed out time and time again, throughout history there has been poverty without the crime and violence. Segura needs to get a clue and buy a vowel.

[Yaelle]

In order to prevent gangs, we would have to bring back shame. There should be shame in having babies one cannot care for properly. Someone should be home watching that child from age 0 to age 18, be it Grandma or Mom or Dad. That child needs discipline and love as well as a roof over his head and food on the table.

In this MTV culture, kids don’t learn shame. They learn that their private parts are for semi-public display, and all of their bodily functions are to be obeyed whenever it feels good.

You can’t just get knocked up by some jerk and then have that baby and spend your days either working or doing drugs, either way leaving the child to the streets. Who knows, maybe the “father” is on the streets. Women have to THINK about who they put between their legs. That shmo is going to be their child’s hero, even if he’s a gangbanger and spends part of every year in jail.

Larry Elder’s website should still have his list of things you need to do in order to avoid poverty forever. It’s an easy list. #1 is something like “Do not have children before you can afford them.”

[ozzymandus]

Didn’t bother to read the article, but my first comment after reading the title was “No Duh, Einstein”.

[BenLurkin]

working for $7 per hour at McDonald's can't compete with $300 per day selling drugs on the streets

Well there you go -- McDonalds, start paying $300/hour. Right now!

Reportedly, the gangs are recruiting from the public schools.

Of course.

Alternatively, the only other way we have to treat delinquent boys is to throw them in jail

Oh ... there's another way.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Liberals say that this crap is caused by poverty. They know it isn’t. It’s caused by liberal policies.

[sport]

That is not what I keep hearing.

Not only that but if the muslims were not so poor tthey would be loving instead of killing.