Louis, You know those "sound barrier" walls encircling the city of Baltimore? Sometimes I think they should complete them and fill the city with the bay. After all, the city's leaders have allowed it to become a cesspool already, let's finish the job. Get the 2 legged and 4 legged rats all at once.
Karl you can always make me laugh
You sir are an extremist and you worry too much. There really are pockets of civilization here in the city that are worth saving. Not to mention the over 1.5 million jobs many counties residents come into the city for. Come back to the center with me and find happiness
We can fix this if we try!
Look what happened when they tore down many of the housing projects in the city. Section 8 spread to other areas. Some areas of the surrounding counites are just as bad and in some cases worse than the city now. I see them, I deliver to some of them.
Yesterday I was in delivering in our old neighborhood, 21214 and 21206. Many of the streets have not changed. Clean yards and well kept houses, good people. On the outside they look different than the original owners, but in all other aspects they are the same. They work for a living and many own the homes they live in. Simply put, they are good productive people. They are not as easily noticed, they are too busy working and taking care of their families to be noticed.
We have created a culture where some people don't rely on themselves. It has become generational, the "family business" and it is proliferating. Mothers don't get married because they lose their benefits. Kids grow up with no father. Fathers feel no sense of responsibility. It's just like Richard Nixon said it would be.
It's not just the government, many business are to blame as well. They exploit people by under paying them and then the underpaid workers get what I call corporate welfare, supplemental income, food stamps, housing and medical care paid for by you and me. People working full time and receiving government benefits is nothing more than corporate welfare. To many people and corporations have their hand out. I just like you I'm growing tired of giving to them!
There are no simple solutions and no one person or party has the knowledge, experience or ability to solve this problem. Someday soon we have to come together and solve the problems.