Want to know the underlying cause? It’s due to affirmative action. When people are awarded education, private sector jobs, government jobs, and welfare based not on merit but on the basis of skin color, you will eventually have a degradation of resources and overall quality of life.
Listen, the free market is what works best. It orders supply and demand. Markets are distorted by government intervention.
Just take a look at the presidency of the United States. People voted for Barack Museveni Obama on the basis of his skin color and not on his qualifications. Does anyone in their right mind not know that Romney was eminently more qualified to run the executive branch than Obama?
Wherever affirmative action plays out, it will result in things being run based on the principle of what I call LCD - the least common denominator.
No different from States wishing to secede in European countries. Economic slavery is what the people opposing the secession are fighting for. They’re saying you must stay and pay for what we want you to pay for.
I’ll take getto slums for a Thousand Alek...
Who would have thought that the greatest criminal in Michigan history would be a politician? /sarcasm
The core issue is education, or rather the implementation of a spoils system in what is supposedly an education system. But private schools - or even individual parents operating on a do-it-yourself basis - are better at education than politicians are. Once admit that, and the solution is painfully obvious.Privatize education, and the worst likely result is that some parents won’t provide any better education than their children are already (not) getting. But that would institutionalize individual responsibility - a concept which all too many people reject out of hand. Of course, as the article makes clear, there is already individual choice, hence individual responsibility, at some level:
the mere mention of losing accreditation has impacted the housing market in DeKalb, with at least one potential buyer directing his realtor not to search for homes in the county.
The only issue is whether individual choice can be an efficient scalpel or whether, for the convenience of crooks, the choice of real estate must remain coupled with the choice of school.
No way. Atlanta is a problem child, but it is no “Detroit.” Mostly because GA is a right to work state... And Atlanta has lots government offices.
"A key leader in the black community...who wishes to remain anonymous, bemoaned the “disturbing tendency of black electorates to not elect the smartest and brightest, or even the cleverest.
Nonetheless, he believes that there is a social contract between the northern and southern parts of the county.
“So when you allow powerful groups of citizens to opt out of a social contract, and form their own, it may benefit the group opting out, but it hurts the larger collective,” he said."
Allow me to translate. Urban black voters tend to vote for those who promise to redistribute white people's wealth to them. Nevertheless, the "social contract" requires that white people allow this to happen because if they don't it is bad for the "larger collective".
This ends one of two ways. Neither is good.
The Georgia Legislative Black Caucus filed a lawsuit in 2011 to dissolve the new cities, claiming they were a “super-white majority” and diluting the voting power of minorities.
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but racism in reverse is ok?
Once a group has shown themselves to be corrupt and criminal - there IS NO SOCIAL CONTRACT.
It ceases to exist...
Decent people removing themselves from the corrupt is a healthy and powerful incentive. If the good people of Detroit had done the same years ago, major parts of that city could have been saved. The healthy parts of Detroit could be a new base to save the city. Now they'll have to bulldoze much of what 'was' Detroit.
That doesn't have to happen to the Atlanta region.
In the long run it's best to restrict and marginalize corrupt parts of a city - not to subsidize corruption with suburban taxes... New cities are a good start.
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