Posted on 12/29/2018 10:40:55 AM PST by John Semmens
Sen Dick Durbin (D-Ill) urged President Trump "to take a lesson from President Obama and boost federal welfare spending in Chicago if he's serious about curbing the city's soaring homicide rate."
"The gang-bangers who are shooting each other, witnesses, and innocent bystanders are justifiably angry that the public housing provided is not as luxurious as what they can afford from pushing illegal drugs," Durbin said. "They are also miffed that the federally-funded job training they are offered only leads to entry level jobs and, at best, middle income salaries. In contrast, the profits from criminal activities enable them to afford the fancy clothes, jewelry, and cars that corporate executive salaries can buy."
"We need to raise the value of the perks that welfare can offer to a level high enough to dissuade young people from choosing crime as a way of life," the Senator argued. "President Obama understood this. I don't think Trump gets it."
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https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/253664-2018-12-28-semi-news-semi-satire-december-30-2018-edition.htm
Sounds like a veiled extortion threat to me. Satire, but there’s an element of truth.
So they want the taxpayers who don’t shoot each other, who are not gang bangers, who don’t do or sell drugs, to part with more of the money that they earn through hard work after working their way up from those entry level jobs, and to hire them for non entry level jobs they have not earned and are not prepared or qualified for.
KMA, let them shoot each other.
Durbin - another insane liberal. What a dufus! Yeah...more money will replace hate with love...yeah.
Dick Turdbrain is a turdbrain.
Tuban Durbin makes me retch. I live in Illinois and consider him to be one of the many cancerous tumors that are choking this state to death.
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