Okay.
I can choose McDonalds, or I can choose drug dealing.
One will earn me nothing, it gives me no hope, to raise a family I'd have to work 80 hours a week. Or I can earn that much money in a few hours a day work but take the risks of the people telling me to run my own business locking me up for running my own business.
I agree that welfare is part of the problem. Again, this is something stacked against people. You say people should just do it on their own, but kids get brought up into an environment where they believe money grows on trees. You can't just expect kids to then not believe this.
How much money a school has doesn't make it better, it's how you use the money. HOWEVER you have to look at the reality of inner city schools. People don't want to work in them. Why? Because the society around them is fucked up, the kids misbehave because all semblance of structure has been shot down because nothing has been done for generation after generation. Also the kids don't see school as an escape route, because for most it is not. They can't afford to go to college anyway, so they're stuck where they are.
Again, more reasons that poor people can't get out of their situation.
As for "idiotic message", come off it.
Government makes the conditions for these ghettos and encourages the ghetto, rather than trying to solve the problem.
Go to Europe, there are far less of these ghetto areas, though they're on the rise with immigration, but in many of these countries the problems are getting solved.
Right, Europe is solving their problems alright.


When I got out of school I got a job; a minimum wage job. I left there for another minimum wage job. From there, another minimum wage job. When I got sick of working minimum wage jobs, I didn't even consider crime. I tried better paying jobs and learned things that helped me in the future.
I never had kids when I was younger--still don't have any kids today. I didn't want the expense of a family and decided to just support myself. Never been married so nobody ever sued me for anything. So the question is, why can't everybody do what I did?
There is no reason. Anybody can do what I did in life, in fact better because I have poor health. I eventually secured a trade, invested my money in real estate, and now I work full time as a tractor-trailer operator and a landlord to boot.
So again, what's stopping anybody from doing what I did?