Now is the time for Republicans to propose inner city solutions

11/26/14 | Republicanprofessor

[hosepipe]

It's a bit late for that...

[doberville]

Agreed. \

And not only must attitudes change, the inner city population WANT the proposed changes. THEIR ideas, maybe.

One thing for sure, throwing money at a problem exacerbates the ailments.

[varon]

Black Man, the problem is YOU. YOUR thinking, YOUR culture, YOUR idle nihilism, YOUR self-created and self-propagating ignorance. Stop the blaming, stop the burning, stop the killing, stop YOUR own self-destruction.

Excellent copy for PSAs in all media...............

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Black Americans have been beholden to Democrats since the 1960s, and has their lot improved? I do not have the statistics handy; I’ll let others work those up.

Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 by Charles Murray. The statistics are there. To quote the eminent statesman Al Gore, “Everything that should be down is up; everything that should be up is down.”

The “Great Society” program worked about the way you would expect of a program which is tendentiously mislabeled. Thomas Paine warned us during the Revolution that

SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil . . .

So when LBJ promised a “great society,” everyone should have understood that the promise was actually a pledge of a great government - something the Framers of the Constitution were too wise to attempt. It was inevitable that the result would be, not a greater society but both a government and a society which was the worse for the imprudent attempt.

[LaRueLaDue]

“Here’s one: Grow up.”

Exactly. Beat me to it.

[Wuli]

solution - inner migration of U.S. citizens from the Liberals’ government plantation society strongholds to where ever in the country jobs are more plentiful

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

There’s nothing anyone can do for these folks until they take themselves by the scruff and decide to get educated and stop condoning thuggery.

[Jim Noble]

High walls.