Well said. To which I'd add: There are simply no decent full-time jobs for anyone living in the inner cities. Fifty years ago, there were choices: work in a mill, in a factory, or perhaps at the railroad.
Today, the choices are: part-time at McDonalds, or...well, that's about it.
This awful jobs situation, of course, doesn't excuse criminal behavior. But it helps explain it.
“Well said. To which I’d add: There are simply no decent full-time jobs for anyone living in the inner cities. Fifty years ago, there were choices: work in a mill, in a factory, or perhaps at the railroad.”
This too is the fault of the nanny state. When I grew up there were plating shops all over town, mostly with five or six people. But all those were shut by EPA regulations. The EPA, taxation, state benefits requirements, free government lawyers for your racially aggrieved employees have driven the companies, and thus the jobs, offshore. They won’t come back until the government is cut down in size and scope. Frankly, I don’t see that happening. As Reagan said, “nothing approaches immortality more than a government program.”
“There are simply no decent full-time jobs for anyone living in the inner cities. Fifty years ago, there were choices: work in a mill, in a factory, or perhaps at the railroad.”.......
Even if there WERE jobs available to these young blacks men, they wouldn’t go ten feet toward them since they can make more money by doing less, selling drugs, robbing, stealing and on and on and then there is the “welfare” system where the gubmint gives them what they need. We have all heard, “What, me work? NO WAY!”