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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: GnuHere
(I know that’s axing a lot.)

Oh, crap...I'm laughing my butt off now...

41 posted on 10/17/2009 8:39:01 PM PDT by Lizavetta (In Communism, everything is free. But there isn't any of it.)
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To: Feasor13

It sounds like they attempted to name the kid after the former East African country of Tanganyika (now Tanzania), but failed to check the encyclopedia on how to spell it. Fail.


42 posted on 10/18/2009 12:14:44 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Gapplega

That sums it up. The single best option when you are in an area that doesn’t offer good opportunities: Go to more fertile pastures.

I don’t understand why people stay. I’d be on the first bus or train out of town. The overall state of the Texas economy right now, for instance, is excellent. Most hospitals will pay you to attend nursing school, which is going to be far better than a minimum wage job. It’s not convenient or easy, but it is simple.


43 posted on 10/18/2009 4:38:11 AM PDT by WallStreetCapitalist
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To: hinckley buzzard
"Military service was always one time-honored route out of the doldrums."

He won't qualify for today's military. He is unmotivated, uneducated, and immersed in self-pity.

He would never make it through boot camp.

44 posted on 10/18/2009 6:18:42 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Artemis Webb
This could have described my childhood in inner-city Boston during the 1970s. My high school resembled the one featured in the TV show of the time "Welcome Back Kotter."

Joined the Marine Corp at age 17 and never looked back.

If these kids really wanted to get out of the city and college is not an option (as it wasn't for me), they can quit whining and join the U.S. military. It was the best thing I ever did for myself.

45 posted on 10/18/2009 6:46:27 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (I am 13 days away from outliving Laura Branigan)
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To: Gapplega
The ancestors of these folks migrated from "red states" 60 years ago. Many have been moving back to the South, but few have changed their ways.

If a pig wants to lay in sh-t, let them do so. It is their nature.

46 posted on 10/18/2009 5:44:39 PM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: NFHale; razorback-bert; hiredhand
sympathy piece ???

yep, unless we understand that the 'utopia' was sold short by underfunding and allowing these poor kids to 'fall thru the "crack[s] [yeah pun...sure], we wont get bazillions more to piss down an endless rathole to skim for the NWO lordships...

one step at a time...

thats all any of us really got if ya think about it...every last one of us has either pretty much already 'been there, done that' [bootstraps-wise] or could be put there by any number of natural or man-made miserys in a heartbeat...

my cynical side says these people are fictional characters of the AllPravda machine...

47 posted on 10/18/2009 9:35:54 PM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force... Like fire, a dangerous servant & master. GW)
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To: Squantos; hiredhand; Gilbo_3

“...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...”

That’s actually a seriously good idea...the only thing I can see problematical with it is we’re STILL spending taxpayer dollars on people who basically will go back to their old ways the minute the last olive drab deuce-and-a-half packs up and leaves.

New Orleans is a perfect example. They re-elected the maggot mayor that left them to drown, just because he was black.

People have to WANT help themselves. Some will and will get a leg up and prosper, but most won’t, because it’s easier to be led than lead.

But then again, maybe it’s a victory if only a few make it.


48 posted on 10/19/2009 12:08:07 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By any means necessary.)
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To: hinckley buzzard; Squantos; hiredhand; NFHale
Military service was always one time-honored route out of the doldrums.

dang, it just hit me that the regular Army aint lookin for crackbaby recruits...BUT the 'new' national [black] security force will prolly takin volunteers/conscripts before long...so he does have a future afterall...

49 posted on 10/19/2009 1:25:23 PM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force... Like fire, a dangerous servant & master. GW)
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To: Gilbo_3; hiredhand; Squantos

Any “National Civilian Security Force” they try to put together will be shredded the first time they go up against someone determined to stop them.

They’ll use them the same way the Nazis used the SS and the SA and local POLICE departments; to intimidate those already inclined towards being intimidated.

“One can only be terrorized if one LETS oneself be terrorized.” - Col. Cooper (God bless him).

An army of thug-gangsta punks versus small-unit, motivated, determined, trained professionals and Patriots...That will be some battle. All of about 15 minutes...

Not a road they should even THINK about going down. But hey..nobody ever said Libs were rational.


50 posted on 10/19/2009 1:37:09 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By any means necessary.)
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To: NFHale
sorry hale, forgot the /sarc...heheheh...
51 posted on 10/19/2009 1:39:31 PM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force... Like fire, a dangerous servant & master. GW)
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To: Artemis Webb
"There is nothing else to do. Nothing is out here," said Evans, who lives with her mother. She said she was kicked out of Detroit schools for fighting.

Gee who wouldn't want this model citizen as an employee?

52 posted on 10/19/2009 1:41:20 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Artemis Webb

Further proof the Chris Rock was right when he distinguishes between Black People and (The word that starts with “N” that no white person can ever say).


53 posted on 10/19/2009 1:44:51 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Gilbo_3

No problem brother G...my right-wing knee-jerk reaction simply kicked in!!!


54 posted on 10/19/2009 1:52:17 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By any means necessary.)
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To: dfwgator

These are the casualties of the “Black Civil War”. Black folks with sense left the inner city faster than whites could move to the ‘burbs. While the residents have my empathy, I have seen this story too many times to just blame the “evil white man”. Unless the evil white man, was a liberal, big government drone...


55 posted on 10/19/2009 4:46:35 PM PDT by Nat Turner (Proud two term solider in the 2nd Infantry Div 84-85; 91-92)
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To: dfwgator

These are the casualties of the “Black Civil War”. Black folks with sense left the inner city faster than whites could move to the ‘burbs. While the residents have my empathy, I have seen this story too many times to just blame the “evil white man”. Unless the evil white man, was a liberal, big government drone...


56 posted on 10/19/2009 4:46:43 PM PDT by Nat Turner (Proud two term solider in the 2nd Infantry Div 84-85; 91-92)
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To: NFHale

It’s “abandoned” property .....not giving shit back. Sell it back and provide new tax base, manufacturing and jobs and people who see a clean slate will build and buy.

No more free rides if I had the keys to this outfit !


57 posted on 10/19/2009 9:32:09 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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