Did Drugs or Politicians Destroy the Cities?
Liberals share a theory about drug addiction. They say that crime would fall if drugs were de-criminalized and made cheaper. In theory, crime is caused by addicts supporting their high-priced drug habit. A recent experiment shows there is more to the story.
27 pharmacies (1) were looted as the police retreated from the Baltimore riots in April. Thieves stole at least 175 thousand doses of opiates. That is enough to keep Baltimore intoxicated for a year. Stolen drugs are nearly free, yet crime and violence soared after the riots. There is clearly more to the story of inner city violence than addiction.
Our deep blue cities slid down a spiral starting with regulation and taxes. That led to business failure, unemployment, depression, addiction, crime, family breakdown, gangs, and educational failure. Free drugs won’t fix won’t fix these cities because drugs don’t fix despair. More welfare payments won’t fix them because welfare doesn’t repair a broken family. These cities are the end result of a cultural failure.
We could fix these cities. Eliminate high business taxes and regulations and the city would slowly grow again. Provide financial incentives for companies to move there. We would also have to eliminate welfare payments to able bodied men and women. Welfare should be a helping hand, not a standard of living for the healthy. We would have to eliminate the requirements of President Lyndon B. Johnsons “War on Poverty”. Government would not support more than three children. Government would not support any child that didn’t have a father listed on the birth certificate. The War on Poverty destroyed the family unit. It used to be that 89% of black families had a mother and father, now the numbers are reversed. Today, 72% of black children are born to single mothers. (2) (3)
Children in single-parent households are raised not only with economic, but also social and psychological, disadvantages. For instance, they are four times as likely as children from intact families to be abused or neglected; much likelier to have trouble academically; twice as prone to drop out of school; three times more likely to have behavioral problems; much more apt to experience emotional disorders; far likelier to have a weak sense right and wrong; significantly less able to delay gratification and to control their violent or sexual impulses; two-and-a-half times likelier to be sexually active as teens; approximately twice as likely to conceive children out-of-wedlock when they are teens or young adults; and three times likelier to be on welfare when they reach adulthood. (3)
In addition, growing up without a father is a far better forecaster of a boy’s future criminality than either race or poverty. Regardless of race, 70 percent of all young people in state reform institutions were raised in fatherless homes, as were 60 percent of rapists, 72 percent of adolescent murderers, and 70 percent of long-term prison inmates. As Heritage Foundation scholar Robert Rector has noted, “Illegitimacy is a major factor in America's crime problem. Lack of married parents, rather than race or poverty is the principal factor in the crime rate.” (3)
It would take time to recover, but the inner cities would slowly grow again. Investment would slowly lead to more jobs. Employment would lead to lower rates of addiction, lower crime, and more intact families. Private schools would slowly improve the level of education … if politicians would let them. We know how to cure the illnesses in our deeply Democratic cities.
This will probably never happen. Democratic politicians are addicted to welfare voters. Republican politicians are addicted to cheap labor. Both parties are addicted to disposable marriage and political kickbacks. Those are the addictions that cripple our deep blue cities today.
Sources:
(1) NY Times.com
(2) Politifact.com
(3) Discover The Networks.org
We have become a society that abhors Christianity, loves Islam, has no moral fiber, and where anything goes, except logic and morality.
Our only hope is that the military gets tired of seeing our country destroyed from within and takes control. The 3 branches of our government are ineffective and running amok. Neither major political party has demonstrated that they can or will solve our problems.
Our problems can be summed up as CLAPS.
Corruption
Liberals
Apathy
Political Correctness
Stupidity
And I bet you thought Clap was just a common human sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
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