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It is easy to complain that they have no jobs, but what are you doing to provide them with a job? Quite a number of people spend their lives gambling, selling drugs, selling sex, attending mandatory checkins, making doctor visits. Buying booze, buying cigarettes, buying substandard foods, buying various unneeded trinkets and baubles such as rims, old cars, the gasoline at $5 at a time.
Go to any city and visit the "bad part". What businesses do you see open? Ethnic Food Restaurants, Cricket/wireless dealers, Convenience Stores, Liquor Stores/Carry outs/Drive-Thru's. Maybe a grocery store and maybe a pharmacy. Of the closed businesses it varies.
And every entrepreneur says the same thing, "I don't want to be robbed and/or shot." when asked why they do not have a store in that area.
Originally posted by dgtempe
Thats a great idea! Now, since i cant find a job, i could always go do the oldest female profession, or as the Philipines call it "You boom boom for $5
dollars?
There's got to be something i can do....still...
Originally posted by Whine Flu
I don't mean to get personal or offensive here, StinkyFeet, but when you say you were troubled by alcoholism, were you judged by others for your ailment? If so, how did that make you feel?
Just, for a moment, imagine what you're asking of a lot of people with this ideal you've presented.
Originally posted by StinkyFeet
reply to post by Ahabstar
It is easy to complain that they have no jobs, but what are you doing to provide them with a job? Quite a number of people spend their lives gambling, selling drugs, selling sex, attending mandatory checkins, making doctor visits. Buying booze, buying cigarettes, buying substandard foods, buying various unneeded trinkets and baubles such as rims, old cars, the gasoline at $5 at a time.
The result of bad decision making skills and not being taught values by their parents.
Go to any city and visit the "bad part". What businesses do you see open? Ethnic Food Restaurants, Cricket/wireless dealers, Convenience Stores, Liquor Stores/Carry outs/Drive-Thru's. Maybe a grocery store and maybe a pharmacy. Of the closed businesses it varies.
And every entrepreneur says the same thing, "I don't want to be robbed and/or shot." when asked why they do not have a store in that area.
Look we all know most business owners would sell you their own mother for the right price. If they could make a profit they would be there. The thing is you can;t make a profit when you are getting robbed and having half of your inventory shopliffted.
Though, I do agree that it is sad that they whole neighborhood has to suffer just because some minority cannot follow the rules.
Jobs for America's Unemployed Teenagers,
The unemployment rate for Americans between the ages of 16 and 19 reached a Depression era level of 25.5 percent in August -- the highest point since the Labor Department began keeping those records more than a half century ago. Most of these 1.5 million unemployed young people live in urban areas where few jobs exist and are unlikely to be created in the foreseeable future. If, as many economists predict, the national unemployment rate reaches double-digit levels and remains high for three or four years, the United States risks losing a major portion of this new generation to drift, sloth and crime.
Direct government employment is the fastest, surest and least expensive - if not the only - way to create enough new jobs for them. The problem is similar to the one that FDR faced in 1933 when half the nation's young men aged 15 to 25 had only part-time work or none at all. FDR's response was to quickly initiate a jobs program for them that ultimately became one of the most popular New Deal programs - the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).
Originally posted by StinkyFeet
Let's make work mandatory, just like they want to make healtcare mandatory. Almost everyone in this country is capable of some sort of work. Even a person with Downs Syndrome can work at McDonalds.
I say unless you are quadrepalegic then you should be able to do something useful. I know there is high unemployment, but lets put people to work for minimum wage to clean the streets by hand or to carry a working person's breifcase from place to place.
I say if you refuse to work, you should get the same fines as what they propose in Healthcare "Reform" for not having insurance.
There is no excuse not to work unless you are severly ill or severly handicapped. Even most people in wheelchairs can drive around and move somthing from place to place or work in an office answering the phone.
Work is good. Work raises your self worth and makes you a contributor instead of a taker. Work is a health issue. Work is healthy!
[edit on 13-10-2009 by StinkyFeet]
Originally posted by StinkyFeet
Let's make work mandatory, just like they want to make healtcare mandatory. Almost everyone in this country is capable of some sort of work. Even a person with Downs Syndrome can work at McDonalds.
Originally posted by StinkyFeet
I say unless you are quadrepalegic then you should be able to do something useful. I know there is high unemployment, but lets put people to work for minimum wage to clean the streets by hand or to carry a working person's breifcase from place to place.
Originally posted by StinkyFeet
I say if you refuse to work, you should get the same fines as what they propose in Healthcare "Reform" for not having insurance.
Originally posted by StinkyFeet
There is no excuse not to work unless you are severly ill or severly handicapped. Even most people in wheelchairs can drive around and move somthing from place to place or work in an office answering the phone.
Originally posted by StinkyFeet
Work is good. Work raises your self worth and makes you a contributor instead of a taker. Work is a health issue. Work is healthy!
Originally posted by tdogg1
I started to reply to this thread, but then I saw who started it...
never mind