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"Roughly one in four working-age adults is jobless. The situation is more dire for 16- to 19-year-olds in Detroit who face an unemployment rate of 57.4 percent, according to the state Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth, citing last year's U.S. Census figures."

1. Pull your pants up
2. Quit living your life for weed, cheap brandy and malt liquor.
3. Learn to speak a coherent sentence.

1 posted on 10/17/2009 4:19:27 PM PDT by Artemis Webb
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To: Artemis Webb

BooHoo. Can he afford a bus ticket to a “red” state? That is, if he is willing to work. A BIG IF.


2 posted on 10/17/2009 4:26:38 PM PDT by Gapplega
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To: Artemis Webb
I would tend to agree with you to a point, but the folks in Detroit are also true victims. They are victims of “progressive” i.e.liberal policies that always promise but never deliver. Just last week thousands were lined up outside the city buildings waiting for applications to get “stimulus” money. Does anyone honestly think that “stimulus”money is going to help even one of them?
3 posted on 10/17/2009 4:31:19 PM PDT by LiberConservative ("Sarah Palin irritates all the right people." -Dennis Miller)
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To: Artemis Webb

Sounds like these people are living high off the welfare hog.


4 posted on 10/17/2009 4:35:32 PM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: Artemis Webb
dropped out of Cooley High School when he was 16 due to "lack of wanting to go to school," he said. If only he could get out of the city, he said, he could be accomplishing something.
Can't even put one foot in front of the other to get "out of the city."
I'm sure the gubmint will be more that willing to get you on welfare soon enough - in any city, you deadbeat for life.
6 posted on 10/17/2009 4:37:34 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Artemis Webb

He dropped out of school. That tells you a lot.

This is mostly self-inflicted city-wise


11 posted on 10/17/2009 4:48:01 PM PDT by GeronL (They Made It Happen On Purpose Economically. MIHOPE)
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To: Artemis Webb

There is nothing that inspires men more than women that keep their knees together.


12 posted on 10/17/2009 4:52:03 PM PDT by Little Bill (Carol Che-Porter is a MOONBAT.)
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To: Artemis Webb

Productive work, LeRoy Taylor, will get you everything you and your daughter will ever need. Finding a job(s) is job 1. Back it up with education whenever possible. Best wishes.


14 posted on 10/17/2009 4:59:37 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: Artemis Webb

Detroit: The real monument to Democratic Party (one-party) rule of
what used to be a vibrant major city.
And now is Beirut, without the car bombs.
Well, for now.

I hope the proposal to bulldoze a large part of the mostly-abandoned
areas of Detroit are not done.
Detroit, like Albania, should be left untouched to show Americans
what happens when the wrong people are allowed to run a city/country.

The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit
http://www.detroityes.com/home.htm


16 posted on 10/17/2009 5:03:24 PM PDT by VOA
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People were bitching and complaining about this years ago. In fact, this looks like 30 years ago. In another 30 years from now, it will look like 60 years ago. Nothing changes for these people because it’s not suppose to change. They’re supposed to be victims, forever and forever Amen.

If you don’t have a computer, go to the library, get on line. Go to K12.com or the many homeschooling sites that are available on line to EVERYONE today. Investigate these sites, sign up with one that meets your needs, complete the course, get a diploma, get the hell out of Detroit.

If you go to church, perhaps you can enlist their aid in helping to pay for your courses — don’t bother to ask officials in the Detroit public school system. It should be apparent to you now that Detroit public schools are a racket and they don’t now, nor have they ever been, interested in educating kids.

Do something for yourself — close your legs, keep your zipper up.


18 posted on 10/17/2009 5:21:06 PM PDT by goldi (')
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To: Artemis Webb

People were bitching and complaining about this years ago. In fact, this looks like 30 years ago. In another 30 years from now, it will look like 60 years ago. Nothing changes for these people because it’s not suppose to change. They’re supposed to be victims, forever and forever Amen.

If you don’t have a computer, go to the library, get on line. Go to K12.com or the many homeschooling sites that are available on line to EVERYONE today. Investigate these sites, sign up with one that meets your needs, complete the course, get a diploma, get the hell out of Detroit.

If you go to church, perhaps you can enlist their aid in helping to pay for your courses — don’t bother to ask officials in the Detroit public school system. It should be apparent to you now that Detroit public schools are a racket and they don’t now, nor have they ever been, interested in educating kids.

Do something for yourself — close your legs, keep your zipper up.


19 posted on 10/17/2009 5:21:35 PM PDT by goldi (')
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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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"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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