Posted on 01/16/2008 2:18:29 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Come on - Detroit is an example of a city where the drugs have flowed freely for years - long before the decline of the auto manufacturers. Michigan is an example of what leads to criminal decline. With Jennifer Granholm at the helm, Michigan lost 30,000 people in the last year alone (working, tax-paying, contributing citizens). However, her policies make Michigan’s welfare all that much sweeter, thus ensuring that the drug-dealing, drug-using, body-selling, welfare collecting population not only doesn’t leave but continues to create even more welfare-check inducing children. This article is on thin ice in terms of cause and effect.
Not only are they selling drugs, but now they are threatening the environment! When will it ever end!? /s
I left Wheeling, WV in 1975 - and not a moment too soon, either. It is in about the same shape from what I’ve been told. Sad.
At least with the Fair Tax, these thugs would for pay something. I see it far too often, people paying for groceries with "Access" cards and food stamps then walk out to the parking lot and drive off in their Escalade or Lexus. They buy food on your dollar and their luxury rides with drug money, all the while contributing nothing to society but decay.
Beaver County, PA is an armpit. And I’m being kind.
Nonsense. We’re promoting the use of drugs here in the Rustbelt to attract the creative class.
Lots of the towns in the tri-state area were towns with steel mills that shriveled up and died when the mills closed, but none of them look ANYTHING like Aliquippa.
Nope. Haven’t been to Wheeling in 4 or 5 years, but trust me, it looks NOTHING like Aliquippa does. Doesn’t look anything like the town I was born and grew up in, but Aliquippa is the only town around here that looks like it was the center of a war.
Other generations in the past would move to where they could find jobs if their area lost a big company or plant.
I don’t get why they would stay where there are no jobs.
I moved out of my native state for a job opportunity. I don’t see why people would stick around and do nothing in the Rust Belt when they could be working in the Sun Belt.
Ah good point, technically the drug dealers have no “income” so they’re not having to pay for anything. It will be interesting to see the percentage of drug dealers eventually arrested by the authorities. Of course it’s impossible to determine the exact statistics.
It’s an unusual mentality some people have where they believe jobs are required to come up to their door and knock.
In my grand parent’s generation, people traveled constantly (moved) to be near work.
It’s an “entitlement” mentality. Thanks to LBJ’s Great Society programs, we now believe that the government owes us.
It makes no sense to me, but so many people are suffering from the disaster of having their bad parents.
So many ways to screw people up unfortunately.
Blame it on Walmart, everyone knows they destroy downtowns.
With welfare, it’s no longer important to have the father bring home the bacon. So many kids nowadays are growing up without fathers. In Rust Belt cities, drugs are the most attractive industry for young men to join. The self-destructive pattern feeds on itself. Eventually the towns will consist nothing more than prostitutes, drug dealers and crack addicts.
Do you advocate the local government to modify zoning laws in order to restrict “big box” stores like Wal-Mart? That’s what Montgomery County did in Maryland.
I remember on a visit to Hawaii where a worker said, “Now with the WalMart here we can both eat and pay the rent”.
I would love to know why planned parenthood has 5 times the number of abortion clinics in minority communities to kill more of their kids though?
The founder of planned parenthood has quite the racist background against minorities from what I read.
Someone has to be making the money to pay for the drugs though.
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