Reply #74: I agree to a point

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but what we're seeing is generations of people who have grown up under a government that has spent more time,money and energy on keeping people down. I don't have all the answers but I think it's irresponsible and heartless to create the situation and then say "uh, sorry we can't help your sorry ass anymore"

Just one example: The goverment creates so much red tape in the "war on drugs" to the point that they can't fight "the war on drugs" so crack houses go up in poor areas just as fast as the gas stations do. People get hooked, the police do nothing to get rid of the crack houses...they arrest the users. The users become felons, the felons can't vote, can't get a decent job. They're on welfare, can't get off. And who's fault is it?
Yes, people choose their own paths. But unless you've walked in the shoes of people who are forced to make choices many of us cannot even fathom....who are we to condemn?

I organized for a non-profit in Dallas a few years ago. A neighborhood where Texas was bidding for the 2012 Olympics.
The local and state Government had it in for this area because it was poor and black and they had been working on it for years.....run it down,lock 'em up, bulldoze it......rebuild. That is the plan in so many poor areas.