[jpsb]

Ain't just a black problem, in my little white town I am seeing the same thing. No jobs, young adults turn to crime, drugs, break ins, gangs and prositution.

How diferent things were when I was young. Anyone any color could get a job that if they stuck with and worked hard would get them into the middle class. No more those days are none and we blacks and whites and whatevers will paid dearly because of it.

[Tokhtamish]

Thanks for the kind words.

Tell me, you think there is some correlation between deindustrialization and suddenly every town seems to be sprouting "gentlemen's clubs" ? Think of it. A woman who strips knows that she makes herself a lowlife among outcasts with no real chance of respectable marriage. But in a community of working class deindustrialization the respectable people no longer call the shots and few of the men she knows are all that great marital prospects anyway. So while she is still young and her body is firm it means maybe college money or maybe some guy with money will take a fancy to her.

[Tokhtamish]

Going further, what about the explosive growth of pornography ? In a world of deindustrialization triggered socioeconomic meltdown for former low-semi skilled workers, their female flesh is cheap (but since working class women tend to look like potatoes when they are 30 they have to make the very most of a brief period of beauty). Is it an accident that the center of porn production in the US is the San Fernando Valley ? Where immigration and low wage economics have made flesh cheap ?

[A. Pole]

No jobs, young adults turn to crime, drugs, break ins, gangs and prostitution.

Drugs, prostitution etc? These are the ultimate free market/free trade things. For free traders everything is for sale, their country, people, everything.