Posted on 07/29/2013 11:51:33 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
(Newser) – Detroit spent the last decade spiraling into bankruptcy, while Atlanta spent it growing like mad. But the two cities have something in common: "Both are places where the American dream seems to be dying," writes Paul Krugman at the New York Times. Social mobility is low in both cities—meaning the poor are staying poor. Why? Well, a new study suggests that it might be because they're just too spread out. "Sprawl may be killing Horatio Alger."
The study found that social mobility was correlated with how far apart various classes lived from each other. "In Atlanta, poor and rich neighborhoods are far apart because, basically, everything is far apart; Atlanta is the Sultan of Sprawl," Krugman writes. "Disadvantaged workers often find themselves stranded; there may be jobs available somewhere, but they literally can't get there." We need to build smarter, more compact population centers that let families get by without multiple cars. Click for Krugman's full column.
The FEDs have taken away the poor’s ability to think in terms outside the system they are gaming... sad really.
...is Paul Krugman going to move to the hood?
The whole early history of European settlement in North America gives the lie to this ridiculous theory. See America Grounded On Experience & Reason.
Those who will not take up the argument on behalf of our traditional values, on behalf of our way of life; those who seek to appease the Paul Krugmans, as those who give lip service to the claimed grievances of other Leftist spokesmen; are all undermining the future of America in ways that are rapidly becoming irretrievable. There can be no moral justification for such appeasement of evil.
William Flax
Nahhh. Kruggie wants the hood to move to YOU.
He’d last about 30 minutes.
Thank you.....I was wondering that myself....and I got the answer I was expecting.
So lets round up all the people and make them live in government communes just like UN Agenda 21 wants us to.
It’s also happening here in Toronto; inner-city homes are worth a fortune while most of the poor are in the fringes to the northwest & northeast.
They should ask themselves, does putting a rotten apple in a barrel with good ones make it a good apple, or turn the rest bad.
It’s also happening here in Toronto; inner-city homes are worth a fortune while most of the poor are in the fringes to the northwest & northeast.
“you’ll have to force the wealthy to live in them at gunpoint, but hey, it’s for the Greater Good.”
Just as they must be willing to shoot me dead in order to make me buy their Obamacare policy. They will kill me for my health!
Another factor regarding Detroit vs. Atlanta "sprawl" is North vs. South.
Much of the urban centers in the northeast date back to the settling of the nation, where roads still follow colonial township boundaries, are narrow and windy, and follow the contours of the Appalachian foothills.
In the south and southwest, the land is more flat, and the settling is newer, so the cities had the advantage of planning their designs and could build anywhere.
-PJ
They would like nothing more than to use the power of the state to murder their ideological opponents.
You are correct, and not only that but the free flow of poor people is limited by regulations that prevent low cost bus and taxi services from entering the market. There is no reason that poor people with jobs in suburbia couldn't ride in a van owned by another person looking to earn some money. In fact it could be a pretty good business. If you watch carefully in certain areas you will notice, for example, vans carrying Asian workers from the city to the Asian restaurants in the suburbs.
Forty years ago in Philadelphia old re-purposed school buses came to pick up inner city residents who wanted to work on the farms in New Jersey. I'll bet regulations today would make that kind of transport impractical or even illegal.
Krugman and his liberal allies do everything they can to stomp out businesses like that which actually help low income people improve their circumstances. And then they complain about the results of their efforts.
“Because social welfare programs are keeping the poor anchored to the government teat.”
It all comes down to bad choices. Girls of 13 are having out of wedlock babies with older teens and young adults. These young girls are not mature enough to raise the child. The burden of childrearing almost certainly means they will not get an education providing them even the rudimentary reading, writing, and math skills required for low skill work.
Many young boys and girls who choose not to fall into the pregnancy trap fall into the racial trap and buy into the hip hop urban culture theme that excelling in school is “white”. As a result they fail to apply themselves in school and end up without the rudimentary skills required to prosper in the workplace.
Without even rudimentary skills, the potential of obtaining more than an extremely low paying low skill job is zero. Dependence on government then becomes either a conscious choice or the default choice. Without skills there is no social mobility.
But I should have said it this way.
These people are not total idiots. They will stay where they are and keep collecting their welfare checks, keep breeding more of their kind (because children tend to learn their work ethic from their parents) and keep voting Democrat.
Ah, but you'll be a better man for it! A few years into 0bamacare and it will be "Good morning, Mr. Drill, this is the surgeon who will be performing your quadruple bypass surgery. Say to Doctor Abdul "Scissorhands" Mengele. He did his residency online."
It actually started long before; certainly the corruption was in high gear with FDR.
1. The Welfare system began to undermine moral values & self-respect with the ADC program in the 1930s.
2. With the increasing agitation for Federal solutions to all social problems, as the years rolled forward, personal responsibility continued to decline, as did the concomitant sense of constructive pride in one's own culture, values & family.
Ultimately it is the ridiculous notion that people are all interchangeable; that no group can function properly but as part of a "diverse" collective underpins the enervating poison with which the Left has injected communities of every type, across the length & breadth of our Federal Union.
Rich & Poor, Black & White, all have been adversely affected--all. Only scoundrels & demagogues benefit from the compulsion driven efforts to force all of us into a dependent mold! (See Compassion Or Compulsion?)
William Flax
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