Posted on 12/31/2013 4:45:43 AM PST by markomalley
> The American Dream is dead for too many people today; until decent jobs are widely available again expect this surge in property crimes to continue (and increase).
That has little to do with it — the violent underclass gets fed, housed, and money for drugs (and smart phones) in a consequence-free environment. They don’t want jobs, don’t need them, and won’t ever want them. What we need are more prisons, and to keep that revenue-neutral, eliminate welfare programs.
I'm all for redemption. Many folks experience conversion of heart as they await their hanging.
sitetest
As I have posted from time to time, I would rather have styled myself as ‘headsonpints’, but the times command realism.
Actual heads on pikes make a political statement that is impossible to misunderstand; my metaphorical handle was chosen to reflect this.
See my tagline - we are up against pure Leninists, now that Marx has been discredited except in Ivy League English Departments. “Who-whom?”
So, “Heads On Pikes!”
Maybe Andrew is too far gone to recognize reality.”
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I think you have got it exactly right.
Hold the cards folks. I think we have a bingo. If you ever had the displeasure of being in a room full of liberals, you will likely hear what they really think. And it is not what they prescribe for everyone else.
“That has little to do with it — the violent underclass gets fed, housed, and money for drugs (and smart phones) in a consequence-free environment. They don’t want jobs, don’t need them, and won’t ever want them. What we need are more prisons, and to keep that revenue-neutral, eliminate welfare programs.”
The problem is that more Americans are quickly ending up in the violent underclass; people with no hope can be desperate. There are not nearly enough jobs (McJobs included) for the number of people out of work.
Building more prisons is just enlarging government; they are part of the “poverty-industrial complex”. If they worked in a way where convicts grew their own food, made their own clothing, etc. (self-sufficient), I would agree with you; instead, they just became more pork, loaded with de facto government jobs...
Too bad we can’t rid society of all these players, but if I had to choose one it would be Andrew.
I live between Newark & Jersey City in NJ; it has been gone in much of those for decades. As we are overrun by immigrants (legal & otherwise), simple things like using blinkers/indicators in automobiles have become a thing of the past.
Hold the cards folks. I think we have a bingo. If you ever had the displeasure of being in a room full of liberals, you will likely hear what they really think. And it is not what they prescribe for everyone else.
Yes, I have been in the room full of liberals, and it is just as you say. Privately, and off the record, they will candidly speak differently. However, they have a vested interest in speaking libspeak. They must repeat the party line, else they be excommunicated.
The peril in this type of activity is that by practicing this deception over time, they become cloudy thinkers and victim to the catechism; they make stupid, heavy handed decisions that are long on over thinking and lacking in common sense. It becomes a disease; a type of mental illness. They dither, parse words and pander; they are incapable of acting decisively and logically. They therefore, make poor leaders.
Just stopping the little thugs from riding the light rail without paying would probably eliminate half the problems with the feral yutes at the MOA.
And the leftists and their media enablers would wail about a return to slavery...
“pulled out a baton with which to pummel him”
Andrews brought a soft heart to a baton fight.
A potential winner of the Robert Fisk* “They aren’t responsible for their own actions” Award.
* - Robert Fisk was attacked and beaten by locals in Afghanistan. His bloody head was shown to the world. Commenting after the attack, he sided with the attackers: “If I had been them, I would have attacked me.” http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1699708.stm
“And the leftists and their media enablers would wail about a return to slavery...”
No doubt; that is what transformed the prison system into pork to begin with.
If you want to beat the holy heck out of an idiot and steal everything he has, you won't find a more pliant victim than Mark Andrew.
“The new American Eloi are being bred and raised to simply accept their status as prey as normal and even righteous retribution for perceived past sins.”
Doubtful - check the number of firearms owned by American citizens.
Seems Americans own 44% of all private firearms on earth.
And, we are going better every day.
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