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Youth face uphill struggle amid Detroit's troubles
AP ^ | 101709 | COREY WILLIAMS

Posted on 10/17/2009 4:19:27 PM PDT by Artemis Webb

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To: Squantos; NFHale; Gilbo_3
Is this supposed to be a sympathy piece by the AP? I don't get it...

At risk of sounding harsh, the young people they're talking about in the article are a pathetic bunch of losers, probably made so by their equally pathetic bad parents!
21 posted on 10/17/2009 5:28:05 PM PDT by hiredhand (Understand the CRA and why we're facing economic collapse - see my about page.)
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To: hal ogen
Where’s my onion?

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

22 posted on 10/17/2009 5:29:31 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (90% of the fedgov is unconstitutional. The other 10% besides the military doesnt know what it's doin)
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To: hiredhand

Zero sympathy for those that refuse to help themselves and or demand others do for them !

Michigan is in for a massive era of hurt unlike they have ever seen. No pun intended but Detroit is a black hole that is sucking the states resources and good communities dry !

If the goobermint wants to do anything for that town it would scrape off the urban wasteland of abandoned structures and old factories and grow crops ! Turn the abandoned parts of that ville into a DOD USAF civil engineer’s, Navy Seabee’s and Army corp of engineer’s training ground with FEMA as to how to recover a city after it’s been nuked !

Nuked in this case being .....conventional destruction by society.

Just my opinion and how I would fix it if I had the keys for a day.


23 posted on 10/17/2009 5:48:38 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: Squantos
I remember a book, I read years ago about a man, who escaped BedSty. It started, “I turned my back to my neighborhood and started walking, one step at a time.”
24 posted on 10/17/2009 5:53:25 PM PDT by razorback-bert (We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.)
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To: Artemis Webb

Tanjanickia Childs? Who the hell thinks that’s a proper name for a child?


25 posted on 10/17/2009 5:55:08 PM PDT by Feasor13
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To: hinckley buzzard

News for you. The Army no longer takes dropouts. Even High school diplomas are considered highly suspicious from turd world cities like Detroit, Cleveland, Gary.

It takes brains to be a soldier, no need for these sh*tbirds.


26 posted on 10/17/2009 6:16:48 PM PDT by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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To: Feasor13

Tanjanickia Childs? Who the hell thinks that’s a proper name for a child?
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Well ,, it’s better than LaStankqua Jones.


27 posted on 10/17/2009 6:18:49 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: truthkeeper

Anyone with any sense is trying to get out of CA.


28 posted on 10/17/2009 6:32:02 PM PDT by goldi (')
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To: Artemis Webb
Another example of the results of LBJ's Great Society nonsense.

We are now in the death throes of FDR's New Deal socialism. We are up to our neck in problems brought on by LBJ's Great Society socialism. BHO's Hope and Change socialism will end things.

29 posted on 10/17/2009 6:33:49 PM PDT by Lawgvr1955 (You can never have too much cowbell !!)
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To: wetgundog
I have to agree with you. I was in a horrible place during the Carter recession and joined the military as soon as I hit 17. I didn't have a diploma but my ASVAB score was high and at that time they had a program to help you get your diploma.

Wonder if this kid has even tried looking at the military?

30 posted on 10/17/2009 6:38:55 PM PDT by wbarmy (Hard core, extremist, and right-wing is a little too mild for my tastes.)
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To: Feasor13

“Tanjanickia Childs? Who the hell thinks that’s a proper name for a child?”

An illiterate idiot from Detroit?


31 posted on 10/17/2009 6:39:33 PM PDT by Bluebeard16
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To: LiberConservative

I so agree....
Here is the REAL TRAGEDY....The Republicans or any conservatives can NOT get the message across to them about the Progressive Plantation!

Pitiful, just piticul that we can not get this message across...NO excuses, conservatives just can’t get the message across.


32 posted on 10/17/2009 6:42:08 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Pray for Israel! And Georgia ! And the Iranian people! and Honduras!)
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To: Squantos
...same here! NO sympathy! I just can't believe that there are idiots out there who will read this AP piece of crap and feel the need to help because of guilt and the whole "have...have not" lie.

If these people can't find work locally, do what we've done...MOVE. But from the sounds of it, not being able to find work is only scratching the surface of their problems!
33 posted on 10/17/2009 7:15:12 PM PDT by hiredhand (Understand the CRA and why we're facing economic collapse - see my about page.)
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Don’t most community colleges have open admissions? Couldn’t these people go back to school for some kind of training (we’ll forget about a degree for right now)? X-ray tech, dental hygienist, diesel mechanic, practical nurse? All these are jobs that can’t be outsourced, that pay decently and would let the person live almost anywhere in the country - they could leave Detroit if that’s what they really want. And, there are grants for the really poor. They don’t even have to get student loans.

It would seem that after putting in application after application, after realizing that they have no skills and need to bring something to the marketplace, that these people would try.something.different.

But that takes thought...


34 posted on 10/17/2009 7:22:55 PM PDT by radiohead (Buy ammo, get your kids out of government schools, pray for the Republic.)
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To: Artemis Webb

Last I checked, the Army is hiring.


35 posted on 10/17/2009 7:31:00 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Gapplega
I've shoveled tons of chicken poop and had several other unpleasant jobs when they were what I could find. I've seen people quit when they were asked to clean a restroom! There is no honest work beneath anyone's dignity! Dirt washes off!

There are people sneaking across the border to do the work these inner city leeches refuse to do!

36 posted on 10/17/2009 7:44:25 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: razorback-bert

Hard to do but .......if they have no desire to improve their lot in life.


37 posted on 10/17/2009 8:03:01 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: Artemis Webb
Who the heck has been running this asylum for generations?

(((If you guessed “leftist/Marxists”, move to the head of the class)))

38 posted on 10/17/2009 8:10:47 PM PDT by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: hiredhand; Squantos; Gilbo_3

You know what? I was a poor white trash punk from North Philly...and I worked at EVERY lousy job I could find, put myself through trade schools, got better jobs, went to night college.

If a bonehead like me can do it, anyone can.

No sympathy from me for useless losers that parasite off the backs and labor of better folks.

Pretty harsh? Maybe - But I don’t give a rat’s tuckus. I’m not one to pull punches. They should quit whining, Cowboy the hell up, and make something better of their lives. As a matter of fact, them being “oppressed minorities” and all - they have MORE opportunity from Uncle Sugar than I could ever DREAM of getting (and didn’t - I did it on my own)- and still don’t get it.

This IS America after all...and it STILL is the land of opportunity - IF you want it.


39 posted on 10/17/2009 8:27:11 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By any means necessary.)
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To: NFHale

Just a bunch of punks on the sugar tit wanting more......Obama will fess up more wasted resources vs teaching em to fish !!


40 posted on 10/17/2009 8:31:13 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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