LOL! Yeah, tell me.Trillions of dollars have been poured into shitholes like Detroit in "investments." All it has done is lined politicians pockets in those places.Investing in these neighborhoods will bear nothing, they are money pits, all we are doing is throwing money down the drain. They are born into the welfare state and make it a career
Community Investment? Oh, Please
In the face of the Baltimore riots, President Obama is reportedly resigned that nothing much can be done to prevent similar events in the future because of Republican opposition to any greater “investment” by the federal government in mainly black inner-city communities.
“Investment”? What a joke! An investment is something from which you expect a return, and those communities have about as much chance of paying anyone back anything as Confederate War Bonds do of suddenly maturing at ten percent compound.
These communities are not an “investment”; they’re an expense! The biggest money hole in the history of the human race. Since Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty program was enacted, we have spent over fifteen trillion – with a t – on welfare (AFDC and other programs), Food Stamps, WIC stamps, free pre-school, free primary and secondary education, free medical care, free cell phones, Section 8 housing assistance, food pantries, free transportation to the Social Services Office and your medical appointments, free legal services, and I don’t know what else because I haven’t the stomach to look any further.
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According to Repubs, poor countries are "emergin markets".
Poor areas of the US are to be ignored and crapped on.
How about we invest in our own country, our own people and our own future?
You haven't visited Detroit in a while. Seriously, much of it has experienced robust growth and success.
Be that as it may, my question stands -
How about we invest in our own country, our own people and our own future?
I guess once the state took it over and remvoed the corrupt mayor things began turning around.