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reply to post by Battleline
Black youth unemployment rate is above 50%,along with living in poverty anyway I would imagine boredom has a lot to do with it although in this case I don't believe that for a minute.
It May Now Pay More to Be on Welfare Than Get an Entry-Level Job in These 34 States
Aug. 21, 2013 10:36am Becket Adams
f it paid better to stay at home and not work, what would you do? That’s a question being asked in more than 30 states.
Thirty-four states and the District of Columbia have made it more attractive to seek welfare benefits than entry-level employment, according to a new report from the libertarian Cato Institute.
“One of the single best ways to climb out of poverty is taking a job, but as long as welfare provides a better standard of living than an entry-level job, recipients will continue to choose it over work,” said Michael Tanner, senior policy analyst and study co-author.
reply to post by sdcigarpig
They are quick to start blaming everyone else, how society is wrong, how their brother and son are innocent and should not be punished. Yet they failed to realise that these three suspects, did not have to pick up a weapon, did not have to go out, did not have to seek out a victim and then commit an act of violence that ended a life.
Originally posted by OneManArmy
Originally posted by Gazrok
The "thug culture" is what is to blame here. These kids should all get the death penalty. No rehab possibilities here. The moment they are out, they'll kill again and again until caught again.
Thug culture being to blame yes, killing all the kids for the misguidance that society provided them?
No.
I do not believe in the death penalty, the main reason I do not is because of the vast miscarriage of justice that pervades the US(and most other) legal system.
The fact in this is although all 3 went out to "kill someone" only one person pulled the trigger, one person is actually the murderer, 2 are accessories to murder.
Should they go to prison for life?
The murderer YES.
The accessories no.
They should at least be given a chance to show remorse and repent for their crime over a long jail sentence.
There is a recurring trend going on right now, it essentially boils down to a lack of direction or good moral guidance, there is a lack of ambition, kids without ambition, feeling like failures in a f$%ked up world where they have no place to succeed, succumb to the base animal instincts within all of us that are manipulated by a mass media of movies, tv, games, music, "news", gossip, celebrity, "Do what thou wilt", survival of the fittest, material wealth being the definition of success, the glorification of criminal activity, material wealth being the definition of success, that fear equals respect, material wealth being the definition of success, to get the girls and get that money, greed is good, MATERIAL WEALTH BEING THE DEFINITION OF SUCCESS.
This is in no way a gun control debate, its the collective mentality of our "civilized" society that needs to be debated.
Originally posted by ButterCookie
N's as I will call them, are not "black people". They are a whole different subculture, consisiting mainly of blacks, that take the race backwards...it's because of N's that many people of other races look at blacks in shame...
So for OneManArmy and Badguy, know that you will never 'waiver' my message. N's exist, and for you to try to silence the messenger clearly places you in the same category.
for N's are the ones who snitched on the runaway slaves.edit on 21-8-2013 by ButterCookie because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by HanzHenry
Originally posted by Antipathy17
Originally posted by silo13
link
A young Australian man who was in the US on a baseball scholarship is dead because three bored teenagers decided to kill somebody for fun. Police say a 17-year-old has confessed to the murder and two accomplices, ages 15 and 16, are also in custody.
The link goes on to say these murderers will be tried as adults but not face the death penalty.
WHY NOT!
My God where is all this hate coming from. I just don't get it. My mind is blown at this point. Or maybe that's my heart that's blown, I don't know. I just don't know.
They should be eligible for the death penalty and that they‘re not? The poor guy who was brutally murdered really did die in vain.
Those murderers should by hung. Period.
peace
As much as we want to say it's parenting, we have to look and the ideas presented here by fellow ATS members. Whole societies are being manipulated. Just think. How did we go from what looked like a peaceful nation to one that love... GTA, Lady gaga, ghetto'ness, etc. We are only human, corruption lives in all of us but are we feeding it?
Our environment changes us regardless of whether we acknowledge or resist. We are impacted by that which we are in contact with. Listen to gangster music long enough, and it will impact your subconscious. Same with anything.
there is a conspiracy about how CCA and the rap music 'overlords' decided to turn the music from fun and jovial to something violent that condones illegal activity.. around 1989-1992 time frame.edit on 21-8-2013 by HanzHenry because: years
Originally posted by HanzHenry
fact number 1 .. being less than 7% of the American population, young black males commit HALF of ALL violent crimes in the US
fact number 2 .. pointing this out is racist.
so, as with ANY problem humanity has EVER HAD, we try and ID the threat, which is the first step in noticing a PATTERN.
fact number 3 .. genetic predisposition combined with young male body chemistry.. oops, that is racist too.
seems to me, doctors, researchers, dna experts, etc.. ALL AGREE THAT GENETICS PLAYS A HUGE ROLE!!
fact number 4 .. because many blacks walk around thinking their ancestors were the only slaves, or at the least that theirs are the only ones deserving compensation. somehow DNA and genetic predisposition...racism
.. This is THE ONLY THING ON EARTH that FACTS ARE NOT ALLOWED!
Originally posted by bigman88
reply to post by Freenrgy2
Yep, you are a good intentioned, but poorly misinformed nazi. The poor in the slums are the bottom of the gene pool? Wow. Instead of adjusting the economic and social disparities that makes a slum a slum and a poor person poor, resulting in greater chance of ignorance and crime, your solution is to limit slum residents multiplying.
Briiliant.
Originally posted by ProfEmeritus
reply to post by galadofwarthethird
Regardless. They made a choice. I grew up poor, in a very poor community, and I worked my $$$ off, both in school, and after school working two jobs, so that I could get to college and get out of the situation. They chose a different path. It is pure BS to blame where they grew up. It was their choice to fail to do something positive to change the situation, and now an innocent boy is dead. It pi$$es me off.
Originally posted by ProfEmeritus
Having taught at a public college, I always get a kick out of all of these politicians, like Obama, and many members of Congress of both parties, supporting public education in word, but sending their kids to the best, most expensive private schools. It certainly speaks of the hypocrisy of these clowns, doesn't it?