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On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 00:12:47 -0500, Califbill
wrote: wrote: On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 14:08:14 -0700, jps wrote: Most of our citizens these days are imports from other states. But I'm sure lunatics make up a similar percentage of population in every state, apart from Florida, which has significantly more than their share. Florida doesn't even make the top 10 list http://www.policymic.com/articles/22...st-cities-2012 Murders per capita 1: Flint, Michigan 2: Detroit, Michigan 3: New Orleans, Louisiana 4: St. Louis, Missouri 5: Baltimore, Maryland 6: Birmingham, Alabama 7: Newark, New Jersey (Tied) 7: Oakland, California 8: Baton Rouge, Louisiana 9: Cleveland, Ohio 10: Memphis, Tennessee Another piece of gee whiz info, Idaho has a lower murder rate than Maine and Maine is called the safest state in the US. Everyone in Idaho has a gun and a lot of them are machine guns. Whoa. Those look like drug infested, welfare areas. Maybe a connection? No opportunity, ****ty public school systems, living wage jobs gone. If you've got to make a living to eat and the only job readily available is running drugs, how many people are going to choose to starve and how many will choose to engage an educational system that has failed them where they have no standing? We've stopped investing in those areas and they've declined, what's the mystery? |
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On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 00:12:47 -0500, Califbill wrote: wrote: On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 14:08:14 -0700, jps wrote: Most of our citizens these days are imports from other states. But I'm sure lunatics make up a similar percentage of population in every state, apart from Florida, which has significantly more than their share. Florida doesn't even make the top 10 list http://www.policymic.com/articles/22...st-cities-2012 Murders per capita 1: Flint, Michigan 2: Detroit, Michigan 3: New Orleans, Louisiana 4: St. Louis, Missouri 5: Baltimore, Maryland 6: Birmingham, Alabama 7: Newark, New Jersey (Tied) 7: Oakland, California 8: Baton Rouge, Louisiana 9: Cleveland, Ohio 10: Memphis, Tennessee Another piece of gee whiz info, Idaho has a lower murder rate than Maine and Maine is called the safest state in the US. Everyone in Idaho has a gun and a lot of them are machine guns. Whoa. Those look like drug infested, welfare areas. Maybe a connection? No opportunity, ****ty public school systems, living wage jobs gone. If you've got to make a living to eat and the only job readily available is running drugs, how many people are going to choose to starve and how many will choose to engage an educational system that has failed them where they have no standing? We've stopped investing in those areas and they've declined, what's the mystery? Bull****! Those schools may not be top tier, but the information is there. Maybe a 50% plus drop out rate is more of a problem than ****ty schools. I have Cambodian friends. They got two years training when they got off the boat paid for by the government. Then they were expected to get a job. Tina got CNA training and worked in a hospital for a couple years. Opened a restaurant and owns and runs a donut shop now. Sunny her husband, who fishes with me sometimes, was trained as a machinist. Two years. We have 5th generation welfare families. Maybe we give them two years training and then require work? Maybe welfare pays too well. We have welfare families with 60" TV, cable and wearing $150 sneakers. And fat. Only country in the world where the poor are obese. We do not invest in those areas as the locals destroy or steal too much. Why is your business not in the inner city? Why do you live in a gated community, and not in the innercity? |
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On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 02:34:35 -0500, Califbill
wrote: jps wrote: On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 00:12:47 -0500, Califbill wrote: wrote: On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 14:08:14 -0700, jps wrote: Most of our citizens these days are imports from other states. But I'm sure lunatics make up a similar percentage of population in every state, apart from Florida, which has significantly more than their share. Florida doesn't even make the top 10 list http://www.policymic.com/articles/22...st-cities-2012 Murders per capita 1: Flint, Michigan 2: Detroit, Michigan 3: New Orleans, Louisiana 4: St. Louis, Missouri 5: Baltimore, Maryland 6: Birmingham, Alabama 7: Newark, New Jersey (Tied) 7: Oakland, California 8: Baton Rouge, Louisiana 9: Cleveland, Ohio 10: Memphis, Tennessee Another piece of gee whiz info, Idaho has a lower murder rate than Maine and Maine is called the safest state in the US. Everyone in Idaho has a gun and a lot of them are machine guns. Whoa. Those look like drug infested, welfare areas. Maybe a connection? No opportunity, ****ty public school systems, living wage jobs gone. If you've got to make a living to eat and the only job readily available is running drugs, how many people are going to choose to starve and how many will choose to engage an educational system that has failed them where they have no standing? We've stopped investing in those areas and they've declined, what's the mystery? Bull****! Those schools may not be top tier, but the information is there. Maybe a 50% plus drop out rate is more of a problem than ****ty schools. I have Cambodian friends. They got two years training when they got off the boat paid for by the government. Then they were expected to get a job. Tina got CNA training and worked in a hospital for a couple years. Opened a restaurant and owns and runs a donut shop now. Sunny her husband, who fishes with me sometimes, was trained as a machinist. Two years. We have 5th generation welfare families. Maybe we give them two years training and then require work? Maybe welfare pays too well. We have welfare families with 60" TV, cable and wearing $150 sneakers. And fat. Only country in the world where the poor are obese. We do not invest in those areas as the locals destroy or steal too much. Why is your business not in the inner city? Why do you live in a gated community, and not in the innercity? I don't live in a gated community, I live in the city and and my business is located in an area that's attractive to current and prospective employees, no matter their color or ethnicity. Your Cambodians were obviously not weighed down by reduced expectations. People come here all the time with the entreprenurial spirit, it's those people the country attracts. What we've grown here is something altogether different. Inner city folks have been taught their chances of success are limited by the color of their skin and their languge. And there's plenty of evidence backing them up. Those that do make it out expend twice the energy of a white person with similar expectations. The field is tilted against them. If you don't admit that, you're deluding yourself. Those that make it out are made of the same gumption that your Cambodian friends are made of. |
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On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 08:04:20 -0700, jps wrote:
Inner city folks have been taught their chances of success are limited by the color of their skin and their languge. === Language? Really? What language is that? |
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On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 18:43:28 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote: On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 08:04:20 -0700, jps wrote: Inner city folks have been taught their chances of success are limited by the color of their skin and their languge. === Language? Really? What language is that? You really that dense or do you just play dumb? Would you rather I said elocution, syntax and vocabulary? Their communites are isolated from greater society, not by choice. |
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On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 1:16:54 PM UTC-4, jps wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 18:43:28 -0400, Wayne.B wrote: On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 08:04:20 -0700, jps wrote: Inner city folks have been taught their chances of success are limited by the color of their skin and their languge. === Language? Really? What language is that? You really that dense or do you just play dumb? Would you rather I said elocution, syntax and vocabulary? Their communites are isolated from greater society, not by choice. BS. It's not about skin color. They choose to isolate themselves. They choose to talk different, to be different, to be outside the norm in society. No one will hire you if your belt loops are hanging below your ass, and you start every sentence with "Yo, man"! That's not racist, it's just a simple fact. A fact that, when a black man says it, he gets called an Uncle Tom, and worse, by the very community he's trying to help. Ask Bill Cosby. |
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On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 10:16:54 -0700, jps wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 18:43:28 -0400, Wayne.B wrote: On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 08:04:20 -0700, jps wrote: Inner city folks have been taught their chances of success are limited by the color of their skin and their languge. === Language? Really? What language is that? You really that dense or do you just play dumb? Would you rather I said elocution, syntax and vocabulary? Their communites are isolated from greater society, not by choice. === Ebonics is a choice. It's not what they learn in school. |
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On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 18:38:20 -0400, BAR wrote:
In article , says... On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 18:43:28 -0400, Wayne.B wrote: On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 08:04:20 -0700, jps wrote: Inner city folks have been taught their chances of success are limited by the color of their skin and their languge. === Language? Really? What language is that? You really that dense or do you just play dumb? Would you rather I said elocution, syntax and vocabulary? Their communites are isolated from greater society, not by choice. How are their communities isolated from greater society? Do they not have TV's, cable service, no smart phones? Aren't they taught be good union teachers? Just how are they isolated from from greater society? === It's a typical excuse making exercise. |
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