paul the original - 6/3/2020 13:35

The 60s.

The 90s.

2010s.

The 2020s.

It’s all the same.

When is something going to change?

There aren’t solid paycheck jobs for untrained folk in this country any more. That is a declining segment, assembly, manufacturing, long term solid low level but good jobs. They are gone.

Technology is replacing $10 starter jobs that are being legislated into $15 starter jobs. Right wrong or no matter on the politics, those jobs are being replaced. Can’t live your life for 40 years on these jobs, but is a paying training situation if anyone would admit it, but these jobs too are going away.

What is a positive direction for ingrained low income folk of any color to go?

What is their way out?

No one wants education. Get out on the street and sell drugs, that’s the future. Use welfare as the base income supplement with stealing and drugs. Buck the police, buck the schools. This is living what’s in it for me. I get it, they don’t have a choice and no longer want to try anything else.

But, then, where do we go? Burn down the neighborhood every 20 years get free federal rebuilding money for a fresh wall to paint more graffiti on, sell more drugs and call it good?

Lot of politicians have all the answers - when they are on the sidelines. When they were in power, what changed? What did they do? Don’t care if they are from the wig party, whatever, why isn’t anything done when they were or are in power? More free money. (Yup just like farmers welfare.). Kick the can down the road, do nothing. Or worse then nothing.

We can burn down every single Target store in the USA, and have 300,000,000 walk every mile of interstate in the USA.

But what does that get us? Where? How does that help?

Disruption to get attention to the problem. Fine, fine, we’ve disrupted in the 60s, in the 90s, in the 2010s, in the 2020s.

We have community leaders that rove around and talk about themselves and how more stuff should be free and how things should change.

But they gave no change, they offer nothing, they help no one.

Buck the police. Boy did I see that written on every available surface in the riot areas in the ‘uncleaned’ videos. Burn down the police stations. Where does that leave us? Clearly everything was much safer for 3 days without any police. Right? Its better without them right the police are the whole problem. Right.

Then everyone asks for more laws, but want no one around to meter out the more laws. The heck? How is that supposed to work?

There is no growth from inside the poverty areas. There is no change from 60 years ago. Anyone tries to change things from the outside, and they are just racist and don’t understand and pushed aside. Any mere suggestion that some change needs to come from within, and well one is the antichrist himself, that can’t possibly be any part of the problem nor the solution.


What the hell changes? What is accomplished?




What is the answer?

The question is being asked too often, saying it’s complicated or it takes a lot of small steps or it just takes more tax dollars and time no longer cuts it.

We have much of our tax dollars going to social services, computers can quickly sort the mountains of data we have, there are tens of thousands of social scientist govt workers. Several political parties have ‘studied’ the problem for ever.

It’s 2020, we have been ‘made aware’ of this for 60 years. Whole big pile of money been spent on it for 60 years.

What is going to change ‘this time?’

Paul