Posted on 03/20/2014 7:28:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I don’t see how this plan could possibly fail unless economics is real.
A San Francisco Bay Area city is on track to have the highest minimum wage in California. The Richmond City Council voted 6-1 on Tuesday in favor of an ordinance that would raise minimum hourly pay in the city to $12.30 an hour by 2017.
Richmond’s unemployment rate is somewhere between 11 and 14 percent. Its unemployment rate for black men is 36%.
It’s the third most dangerous city in California and its 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th top employers are all the government. And it has a huge gang problem. So clearly the thing to do is make the city as unattractive as possible to small businesses while eliminating lower end jobs in order to help the gangs expand.
But that just means more opportunities for scenes like these.
A bloody fistfight broke out among rival gang members at Richmond City Hall on Friday, according to police.
Seven men from different parts of the city brawled in a third-floor suite that houses the city’s Office of Neighborhood Safety around 12:30 p.m. Friday, department director Devone Boggan said.
He said all of the men involved in the melee are enrolled in the office’s “Operation Peacemaker” fellowship and happened to show up at the office at Richmond’s Civic Center at the same time unexpectedly.
The ONS director said he sees the unarmed brawl as a sign of progress, since the young men involved all have a history of gun violence.
“They decided to pick their fists up instead of a gun,” Boggan said.
Things are looking bright for Richmond indeed.
You can't make this stuff up
-- Dave Barry
Now THAT is stunning and telling.
LOL. I lived a few miles from there for many years. Oakland looks good compared to Richmond. The only thing they have going is a Chevron plant which supports the entire city. Of course, they blame all their problems on Chevron but lost in court trying to tax it to death.
Dumb as them American Jews, “Its unemployment rate for black men is 36%.”
And they both just keep supporting obammy, obammycare and Dems in general and all elections.
Hmm...
Do Americans of German or Scandinavia descent vote on the basis of US foreign policy toward Germany or Sweden? Or do they vote on the basis of what they want for themselves and people like them in the USA?
Liberals have turned paradise into hell in Kolifornia and so we have here the hottest place in hell.....keep voting you fools!!!
Back in the late 1970’s there were a huge number of seemingly independently wealthy men hanging around outside several liquor stores in and around Richmond
I always wondered if they had been entrepreneurs... or had inherited their wealth...
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