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This is sad, and embarrassing for our state. It appears that our state is not putting enough focus on this. How can we get our lawmakers and elected officials to take this more serious?
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Tennessee Crime: Memphis#2, Nashville #4
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, Jun 10 2008 07:52 AM
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Posted 16 June 2008 - 09:18 AM
highriser, on Jun 10 2008, 07:52 AM, said:
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This is sad, and embarrassing for our state. It appears that our state is not putting enough focus on this. How can we get our lawmakers and elected officials to take this more serious?
This is sad, and embarrassing for our state. It appears that our state is not putting enough focus on this. How can we get our lawmakers and elected officials to take this more serious?
Politicians lack guidance. When their constituents push a politically correct way to keep at-risk kids from becoming parents until they graduate, get a job and get married, then our politicians will have some guidance to enact new policy.
Until then, poverty and desparation will spread to where it will eventually chase everyone else out. Then, the poor get to elect the politicians. It's called "empowerment."
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Posted 01 July 2008 - 08:55 AM
There's a painfully relevant article in The Atlantic about the shifting of violent crime in Memphis from downtown to the suburbs. The shift in violent crime corelates to the destruction of downtown public housing and the emergence of its former tennants in Section 8 housing. "Doing something about crime" means suggesting the unthinkable to our politicians; that keeping public housing folks lumped together might be best for their well-being and for the city's as a whole.
http://www.theatlant...7/memphis-crime
Your tax dollars at work.
http://www.theatlant...7/memphis-crime
Your tax dollars at work.
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Posted 09 July 2008 - 07:36 AM
Chattanooga has seen a recent spike, inspiring this cartoon in the Times Free Press.
Edited by flith, 09 July 2008 - 07:38 AM.
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Posted 27 July 2008 - 12:17 PM
You can't end poverty by spacing the poor out. And even if you removed them entirely a different set would move in and fall in their place. Someone's gotta flip burgers and mop floors for cheap.
As long as unskilled work is so chronically underpaid, there will be people that don't have enough to live without assistance. Social dysfunction is the natural outgrowth of this feeling of worthlessness.
Poverty isn't the government's problem to solve; it's the employer's.
As long as unskilled work is so chronically underpaid, there will be people that don't have enough to live without assistance. Social dysfunction is the natural outgrowth of this feeling of worthlessness.
Poverty isn't the government's problem to solve; it's the employer's.
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