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Saturday, August 20, 2011

A Solution for Homlessness?

Amidst the din surrounding the global economic meltdown, Americans might be excused if we haven’t paid too much attention to the youthful rioters roiling London and other British cities.

Still only a fool would shrug their shoulders at the images of a new blitz brought on not by high-flying bombers but text- messaging thugs making a mockery of British Police.

The pundits and talking heads from the U.K. I've heard recently offering explanations for the riots generally fall into two camps: the unrest is either “mindless violence” or  “social injustice.”

There are the inevitable calls for: 

A) A get-tough memo to the police to get back control of the streets and restore England’s suddenly –tarnished image ahead of next year’s Olympic Games or...

B) More social programs and employment opportunities for the underclass.

All these measures actually make a lot of sense, yet there is an underlying feeling that at the end of the day the key to society’s challenges on both sides of ‘the Pond’ does not always lie with more government intervention.

Indeed, British Prime Minister David Cameron summed up the fears and frustrations of many when he asked;

"Do we have the determination to confront the slow-motion moral collapse that has taken place in parts of our country these past few generations? Irresponsibility. Selfishness. Behaving as if your choices have no consequences... Reward without effort.”

So how do we begin to fix what’s broken?

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5 comments:

  1. More social programs and employment opportunities for the underclass. is not tha answer. stop feeding them and stop all the programs and they will go away.

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  2. We have a problem with the social structure in this country. The minorities have been given everything and expect it now. If they go to jail they get the same. Free room and board , free cell phones , free electric and heat , free meals and free sex. So , having said that , they don't care about the law. The lawyers will defend a person knowing that he or she is guilty. This is sick !
    If you think the riots is England were bad , just wait , the silent majority will awake with a vengeance like you have never seen.We will only fix this with survival of the strong and armed. Sorry , but we have past the point of no return. If you want make money in the market short term , invest in food or arms and ammo.
    Scarey , isn't it!

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  3. So the answers are either ignore and starve the poor until they "go away" (read: die,) OR arm ourselves and wait until we shoot them down because they will eventually get all angry and uppity and try to take what is ours.

    And this is what you call Patriotism?

    God Bless America* (*But only the parts we like.)

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  4. Hobo's, Gypsies, bumbs, vagerants, all of these kind of people used to locked up or escorted to the county line and told to get lost. What happened to good law enforcement?

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  5. stop feeding them and stop all the programs and they will go away.

    Yeah, they will die.

    Hobo's, Gypsies, bumbs, vagerants, all of these kind of people used to locked up or escorted to the county line and told to get lost. What happened to good law enforcement?

    August 20, 2011 1:35 PM

    You call that good law enforcement?!

    Unbelievable how heartless some are. Bet they will sing a different tune when it happens to them.

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