[EricT.]

If these places are such hellholes with no jobs, what’s to stop the residents from saving up a few bucks for a bus ticket to a place with a job or two?

[Gritty]

If these places are such hellholes with no jobs, what’s to stop the residents from saving up a few bucks for a bus ticket to a place with a job or two?

Two words: Welfare Checks

[CowboyJay]

"If these places are such hellholes with no jobs, what’s to stop the residents from saving up a few bucks for a bus ticket to a place with a job or two?"

A couple grand in moving expenses by the time you figure in rental and utility deposits? That, and places with a job or two are in pretty short supply - unless you're talking about picking up and moving to Asia.

[yldstrk]

Look, YOU KNOW Democrat cities are just big donuts with nothing but agony and devastation in the middle. I suppose every now and then there is one that manages to get out. I know a couple. But it ain’t easy, esp when they accuse one another of abandoning their culture etc. I know one guy WHOSE GRANDMOTHER CRIED when he said he was going to law school and wouldn’t be a tattoo artist any longer.

Listen, these people have been wrecked, they can’t think straight and they have no God to rely on. Because the Democrats have delegitimized God in every way they can, and there is no religious instruction anymore and one is regarded as a FREAK if you have standards. So Freepers going “uh they are lazy, we were so much better”, guess what, when you were growing up, we still had our country. No one walked on the flag, no one said “Happy Holidays” there was still Easter vacation.

Now, nothing is sacred except people’s “right” to sexual gratification, which makes me want to throw up.

[ZX12R]

If these places are such hellholes with no jobs, what’s to stop the residents from saving up a few bucks for a bus ticket to a place with a job or two?

Welfare, food stamps, drug dealing, and theft make them a good living right where they are. It's not a job problem, it's a culture problem.

[Beagle8U]

Whats to stop them? How about this...

http://www.therxforum.com/showthread.php?t=876605&s=65fa9e7d2f3572a4467aa60d64d99646&p=9020810#post9020810

[Beagle8U]

What is to stop them? How about this...

http://www.therxforum.com/showthread.php?t=876605&s=65fa9e7d2f3572a4467aa60d64d99646&p=9020810#post9020810

[miss marmelstein]

I live near Asbury Park, NJ which has a huge underclass. While the males all sell drugs and laze in the front yards of their rentals, their female relatives are working in the giant supermarkets that dominate the area. They work in all the pizza and chicken joints. The point is, that even if your block is a “hellhole,” help is often just a few streets away.

I agree with Newt on this. Why can’t a kid be a packer at Foodtown?

[redgolum]

Some do.

Many have their families attack them for trying. I grew up in the Midwest, and left for a job. There are no real opportunities for me at home, but my parent spent years making me feel guilty for leaving the farm (which went bankrupt).

In some places, the people bring the hellhole with them. Take a kid from the trailer park or ghetto to the suburbs, and he will be the same there as he was.