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Originally posted by CC1GC
With ever-increasing social disparity, nothing can be done to alleviate poverty in any society. The difference between a 5% difference of a rich-poor gap is a greater number of ghettos.
note to ktsnake: i'm gonna start calling you Contradiction Kevin
..you brushed upon the 'costs of society' for incarceration et al. I'm not sure if you're aware or not, but there are numberical sociological studies linking economic benefits to the prison system in the U.S. In fact, i read upon one that attributed a 5% reduction in unemployment overall because of the jobs created from Crime - and i ain't talking about white collar.
One last point (and sorry for the redundancy), you suggested to ship off 'ghetto children' to boarding schools where i geuss they can learn how to function in society? Ummm if you knew anything about rehabilitation on any level, it is a far greater cost to society than anyother method.
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I don't claim to have all the answers.
I don't even claim to have any of the answers
All I can tell you is that the present system and circumstances only perpetuate the situation.
I'm sure that studies do show that the economy in some areas is positively effected by the industry of policing and incarcerating people. However, all the money to support those activities comes from government spending. Government spending comes from taxes -- money that is siphoned out of the economy in the first place. If there's less government spending, there's more private spending. The money doesn't go into a hole. My heart goes out to the prison guards and police officers that would be left without a job. Fortunately, the problem cannot be solved overnight, so if there was a decrease in such jobs it wouldn't be a sudden thing.
DHS needs more authority to get kids out of bad situations, drugs should be legalized (but controlled) and help should be given to people that want it (education, job skills, not free money).
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