1 out of 3 Detroit residents are below poverty

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

High school dropout rate is not going to change but only get worse.

Then college education is moot, isn't it?

This is why, much like a google, apple or Microsoft came from nowhere and from nothing ...

In America. Ain't no google in Oz, son.

[Heracles 417]

In America. Ain't no google in Oz, son.

They don't need Google. The wealth of the average Joe speaks for itself. How many people here have the wealth of the Google founders? Which is the whole point though, Is it not? That you have a small group of people control the majority of the wealth, while everyone else is quite poor.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

They don't need Google.

Famous last words.

[Heracles 417]

They don't need Google.

Famous last words.

What good is Google doing for people in Detroit? or anyone else in that list.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

They don't need Google.

Famous last words.

What good is Google doing for people in Detroit? or anyone else in that list.

Think of the parable of the sailor and the concubine.

[Heracles 417]

Think of the parable of the sailor and the concubine.

I'll put it another way. Find me a Detroit equivalent in Aus.

In this case, Google maps can help

Edited September 30, 2009 by Booyah!

[lostinblue 1,989]

Number one cause pf poverty in this country is unwed mothers.Change the culture of 14 year old girls in the hood getting knocked up every year . Then running to social services for support .You have most poverty licked if the fathers would take care of their families.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Think of the parable of the sailor and the concubine.

I'll put it another way. Find me a Detroit equivalent in Aus.

In this case, Google maps can help

You can put it any way you want, but I can only teach you how to fish.

[Heracles 417]

You can put it any way you want, but I can only teach you how to fish.

I will simplify it even more.

Average Joe Yank = very average to poor

Average Joe Aussie = doing quite well.

Rich Winthrop Yank = Mega mega rich

Rich Winthrop Aussie = average rich

Poor Lashanda Yank = dirt dirt poor

Poor Shazza Aussie = can still live an okay life

Regardless of class Yank = surrounded by run down towns, cities and ghettos. Needs to go to uninhabited nature to see some beauty.

Regardless of class Aussie = surrounded by beautiful modern clean cities.

Edited September 30, 2009 by Booyah!

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

You can put it any way you want, but I can only teach you how to fish.

I will simplify it even more.

Average Joe Yank = very average to poor

Average Joe Aussie = not doing to bad.

Rich Winthrop Yank = Mega mega rich

Rich Winthrop Aussie = average rich

Poor Lashanda Yank = dirt dirt poor

Poor Shazza Aussie = can still live an okay life

Where there are words, there is not always meaning. Where there is meaning, often one can not find the words.

[Heracles 417]

Where there are words, there is not always meaning. Where there is meaning, often one can not find the words.

Talking ####### does not change reality. NE Americans clearly have not learned that yet.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Where there are words, there is not always meaning. Where there is meaning, often one can not find the words.

Talking ####### does not change reality. NE Americans clearly have not learned that yet.

Too true. Life is like a basket of cherries, isn't it?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Number one cause pf poverty in this country is unwed mothers.Change the culture of 14 year old girls in the hood getting knocked up every year . Then running to social services for support .You have most poverty licked if the fathers would take care of their families.

What culture is that? The Right Wing culture of forbidding sex education in schools? Denying condoms to teenagers? Or the culture that says no really means yes?

[Heracles 417]

Number one cause pf poverty in this country is unwed mothers.Change the culture of 14 year old girls in the hood getting knocked up every year . Then running to social services for support .You have most poverty licked if the fathers would take care of their families.

What culture is that? The Right Wing culture of forbidding sex education in schools? Denying condoms to teenagers? Or the culture that says no really means yes?

Well the attitude that promotes sex as being the and all be all. A society that openly promotes sex in schools but scorns spirituality. Not to mention the fact that a large large number of teenage mothers are unwed single mothers. A culture that promotes choice but leaves it up to society to pay for the consequence of their choice. Unfortunately unlike the perpetrator, we don't get a choice. I have to pay for crime or any other negativity associate with a broken family. Many of us who do the right thing don't get the same right to make a choice, we just have to pay for it; usually because I decided to work hard, obey the laws and succeed.

It's one thing helping out people who are genuinely poor but totally something else when people make negligent choices yet expect others to pay for them. Unfortunately attitudes cannot be fixed with money. This attitude is why I loathe and detest the underclass in the US. While I don't blame them for getting there, nonetheless, it's still 'their choice' to behave like uncivilized dead beats; who only know to screw and commit crime.

Edited September 30, 2009 by Booyah!

[Heracles 417]

There are millions of people from poor countries that migrated to English countries and have made something for themselves. Yes even during the depression and eras when you received no welfare. These migrants took care of their communities and worked with one another. So how is it in 2009 when people with so much provided to them, act as if they have no avenue to success? How does this explain the vandalism of public property or negligence of one's own house and street? As I have said before, I have seen people buying handfuls of DVD's yet using EBT to pay. How about purchasing a can of paint instead? to fix your shitty run down homes. How about spending the time cleaning your property? rather than watching dvd's.

For various communities that pride themselves and have no issues grouping and identifying themselves by ethnicity or region, they sure as hell have a problem working with one another to improve their situation; not to mention improve their community. I just heard someone yesterday on the nightly news discussing violence amongst AA youth in Chicago. With one of the reasons being that they are bored in cities. First off, what the hell are you doing in cities? That is a no brainer. Second of all, since they are bored and have nothing to do, how about working together to fix your community up? Since you love the cities. It certainly has nothing to do with money considering the county in the DC area with the highest crime, also spends the most money per student.

Edited September 30, 2009 by Booyah!