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originally posted by: WhenDovesCry
Wouldn't this simply be called poverty?
originally posted by: kaylaluv
It just seems like it would be so much easier and less violent to offer a cash incentive to those who would volunteer to get vasectomies and tubes tied. I'd love it if my taxes helped pay each person in a poverty-stricken community a $1,000 to get a reversible sterilization procedure.
originally posted by: snarky412
What a sad life these kids have got, with little to no future for some of them
Seems like more could be done to make their neighborhoods safer
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
originally posted by: snarky412
What a sad life these kids have got, with little to no future for some of them
Seems like more could be done to make their neighborhoods safer
End the war on drugs. I guarantee that gang culture will evaporate overnight once it stops being so easy to make money illegally.
originally posted by: kaylaluv
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
originally posted by: snarky412
What a sad life these kids have got, with little to no future for some of them
Seems like more could be done to make their neighborhoods safer
Where there are not enough opportunities to make money legitimately, they will find some other way of making money.
Yeah....like trying to convince people that those who live in a city have PTSD, just so they can get a disability check. loledit on 20-5-2014 by Fylgje because: (no reason given)edit on 20-5-2014 by Fylgje because: some sort of quote problem that I can't seem to fix
originally posted by: kaylaluv
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
originally posted by: snarky412
What a sad life these kids have got, with little to no future for some of them
Seems like more could be done to make their neighborhoods safer
End the war on drugs. I guarantee that gang culture will evaporate overnight once it stops being so easy to make money illegally.
But don't you think they'll just find some other way of making money illegally? Like sex trafficking, or illegal gambling, or some other type of "mafia" behavior? Where there are not enough opportunities to make money legitimately, they will find some other way of making money.
originally posted by: kaylaluv
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
originally posted by: snarky412
What a sad life these kids have got, with little to no future for some of them
Seems like more could be done to make their neighborhoods safer
End the war on drugs. I guarantee that gang culture will evaporate overnight once it stops being so easy to make money illegally.
But don't you think they'll just find some other way of making money illegally? Like sex trafficking, or illegal gambling, or some other type of "mafia" behavior? Where there are not enough opportunities to make money legitimately, they will find some other way of making money.
Its not an attempt to simply label the kids. I dont doubt for one second that the label is accurate. Ive seen it first hand.
originally posted by: undo
a reply to: captaintyinknots
when people come home from serving in a war zone, they are often diagnosed with ptsd or some other stress disorder. so this is not an attempt to label, it's just looking at the reality of poverty. poverty sucks, no one should have to live in poverty.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
originally posted by: snarky412
What a sad life these kids have got, with little to no future for some of them
Seems like more could be done to make their neighborhoods safer
End the war on drugs. I guarantee that gang culture will evaporate overnight once it stops being so easy to make money illegally.
In early 1986, the 42-year-old Massachusetts Democrat stood almost alone in the U.S. Senate demanding answers about the emerging evidence that CIA-backed Contras were filling their coffers by collaborating with drug traffickers then flooding U.S. borders with coc aine from South America... In taking on the inquiry, Kerry challenged President Ronald Reagan at the height of his power, at a time he was calling the Contras the "moral equals of the Founding Fathers." Kerry's questions represented a particular embarrassment to Vice President George H.W. Bush, whose responsibilities included overseeing U.S. drug-interdiction policies... Kerry's probe infuriated Reagan's White House, which was pushing Congress to restore military funding for the Contras. Some in the administration also saw Kerry's investigation as a threat to the secrecy surrounding the Contra supply operation, which was being run illegally by White House aide Oliver North and members of Bush's vice presidential staff.
The Reagan administration did everything it could to thwart Kerry's investigation, including attempting to discredit witnesses, stonewalling the Senate when it requested evidence and assigning the CIA to monitor Kerry's probe. But it couldn't stop Kerry and his investigators from discovering the explosive truth: that the Contra war was permeated with drug traffickers who gave the Contras money, weapons and equipment in exchange for help in smuggling coc aine into the United States. Even more damningly, Kerry found that U.S. government agencies knew about the Contra-drug connection, but turned a blind eye to the evidence in order to avoid undermining a top Reagan-Bush foreign policy initiative.
originally posted by: Kandinsky
I don't think he would be 'ashamed'; he'd be disappointed. After all, the civil rights movement wanted equality for all.
NO! The civil rights movement was about equal RIGHTS for all - not a homogenized equality for all. Many people get this confused.