Trump Can Fix The Inner Cities With This One Act

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[Bob434]

[[Trump Can Fix The Inner Cities With This One Act]]

Trump Can Fix The Inner Cities With This One Weird Trick

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The black community needs to fix black inner city culture.

. . . it’s not as if you or I could do it.

Frankly, the problem in the inner cities - and the problem in third world countries - is too much socialism.

Socialism is naive cynicism - cynicism towards society, and concomitant naiveté towards its opposite, which (as Thomas Paine elucidates) is government.

Adam Smith explains why naiveté is so commonplace:

The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing. — Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)

So the great problem is to lead understandably naive people, who understandably don’t get the reality of socialism, to reject it. You get blacks to open their minds to the reality that their “Forty acres and a mule” - their great opportunity for advancement - is, and always was, education. Not equality and “integration” in the sense that black and white children both go to schools dominated, as George Gilder once put it, by “fatherless boys bearing knives." Equality in the sense that blacks, and whites, take ownership of their own children’s educational experience.

So the sovereign remedy for the Democrat political stranglehold in the inner cities is breaking the Democrat/government monopoly on education. Education is the singular issue on which inner city blacks have every reason to be simpatico with Republicans.

[9YearLurker]

If that is an okay approach for “inner cities”, it is an okay approach for America. I have never liked the government swooping in to try to favor certain groups over others.

The free market on its own is fine. And as it is, many on welfare of various types stay there rather than take a step down to the living standard of the minimum wage—they certainly aren’t going to opt for remuneration below that.

The simple way to fix this is to send the 30 million+ illegals here currently home. That would help the American “inner city” population, as well as other lower-skill Americans. But it would ding the investor class, and so Trump won’t do it.

[null and void]

It will work. Here’s why, an entire generation will learn, on their 20th birthday, right before they can vote, that minimum wage=job loss.

It will take a while to bear full fruit, but so does planting a tree...

[MrEdd]

Property values tanking is a correction.
It happens periodically.

[GOPJ]

It might work AND it would draw industry to black inner city neighborhoods.

After a set proscribed time - (maybe ten years) the experiment would end and minimum wages would be reinstalled. Add a provision that for the first two years a person in the experiment area could continue to collect their government benefits... could be even more successful. Baltimore might be the right place to start an experiment like that...

The black community created a toxic culture with help from white liberal elites in the years following ‘the Great Society’ insanity. Anything that would help undo that horror is worth considering.

[Tammy8]

Better plan this for areas already populated on the border. Where I live there are large cattle ranches.

NAFTA was supposed to do this. Manufacturing along the border cities (In Mexico) would employ people and no need for them to come here for work.

Unless your plan involves the workers being slaves they will still leave, come North, go everywhere they do now.

[BobL]

If you ask the Cato Institute, they’ll say “build private toll roads”. Not that it makes any sense in this context, but that’s about they talk about.

[VRW Conspirator]

Cities are sh*tholes because they are run by crooks.

/echo . Worth repeating. Poverty can be fixed by just throwing money at it. However, throwing money at a poverty of values will only increase the problem.

[GOPJ]

A ragged urchin, aimless and alone,

Loitered about that vacancy; a bird

Flew up to safety from his well-aimed stone:

That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third,

Were axioms to him, who’d never heard

Of any world where promises were kept,

Or one could weep because another wept.

W. H. Auden

[BobL]

Rudy already PROVED THE ANSWER - simply put bad guys behind bars...that was ALL he did differently.

The rest of the problems took care of themselves once the city was safe.

...of course, that was until they got their current mayor.

[Nifster]

How about if conservatives get of their lazy asses and run in these districts instead of staying off the battlefield altogether

[Tammy8]

You might find this interesting:

https://napsintl.com/mexico-manufacturing-news/history-maquiladora-industry/

[GaryCrow]

This wouldn’t work unless you combine it with a massive overhaul of the welfare system which Democrats would never allow.

The minimum wage isn’t the problem. The problem is that you have an entire underclass of people in these urban slums that make more money from welfare than they ever could by working a minimum wage job so they choose not to work. We also pay them to destroy their families by making unwed motherhood more profitable than a traditional two parent family so that’s what they choose. You’re not going to get people to work when you’re paying them NOT to work.

[fhayek]

I am sort of against enterprise zones. I favor limiting welfare. Welfare saps incentive. It saps self-sufficiency. It makes getting an education unnecessary. Working nearly always means a step down, economically, from government assistance. Plus, if you are on assistance, and you work under the table, or engage in illegal activities, you can afford furs, and fancy nails and gold necklaces, and luxury automobiles....

I don't know. The root is welfare. It needs to be significantly limited. It has become the family business that gets passed from generation to generation.

[Secret Agent Man]

They have to because they won’t listen to anyone else about fixing their problems.

Problem is honestly they do not know how to do so correctly.

[GOPJ]

The first step in solving a problem is being able to see the problem.

Democrats use the race card to stop that process.

[Uncle Sham]

"If that is an okay approach for “inner cities”, it is an okay approach for America"

No kidding. Doing something like this would show everyone the truth of what progressives want for us rather than what free enterprise can offer us. Make it work in Baltimore. The tee is set, simply swing the club or at least offer this type of idea up for public consumption and debate.

[Jim Noble]

“Major cities run by Democrat policies for the past forty or so years all have one thing in common, a decaying inner core where buildings are rotting, property values are tanking and jobs are non-existent”

Gee, Burlington VT, Portland ME, Portland OR, and San Francisco have all been run by Democrats since the 1920s and they don’t have these problems. Windsor ON has been run by socialists for years, at the same latitude and with the same climate as Detroit, and it’s lovely.

Are you sure the problem is Democrats?

[Bratch]

An Idea Whose Time Never Came

by Dennis Teti  January 15, 2016 01:25 AM

G.K. Chesterton famously remarked, “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried." The same can be said of a more down-to-earth but still-radical idea: The late Jack Kemp's antipoverty proposal for urban enterprise zones was found politically difficult and never tried.

Democrats and too many Republicans believe the urban myth that in 1993 Congress passed Kemp's plan, which the Clinton administration enacted with disappointing results, thus demonstrating that the enterprise zone idea doesn't work. But Kemp's proposal was drastically different from what was carried out. The two versions share similar names but reflect divergent views about government's role in promoting growth. Kemp's strategy was to open up abandoned areas to all comers, with minimal government direction. Bill Clinton created a bureaucratic maze channeled toward big business urban renewal that discouraged potential local entrepreneurs.