"If We Want to Combat the Violence, We Must Invest in Our Children"

[Gregorian]

Interesting interview with a very bright woman regarding the truth about poor communities. Worth a listen. It reinforces the need for a moral economy.

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[Elmergantry]

1. Here is some "free" investment tips.

All of these can be done by the parent(s)

1. know where your kids are and what they are doing.

2. Make sure they do their homework and graduate from high school. Teach then the key to escaping poverty is education; vocational or college. Not drugs or other such criminality.

3.Teach them right from wrong - Church is strongly advised - and that there are consequences to actions and choices made.

4.Teach them to respect and to be respectable.

5.Teach them to work; to not be afraid of getting ones hands dirty.


Amazing results can happen without one dime of taxpayer money.

[PotatoChip]

2. What makes you think that these parents are not already doing that?

The 5 things you listed, I mean... Where is the evidence for your assumptions?

For all I know these parents could, and perhaps even should be giving YOU tips on how to raise children. (If you are currently raising kids).

[Elmergantry]

3. lets see...

60 percent dropout rate in cleveland alone. Methonks someone is not parenting.

[PotatoChip]

4. What does Cleveland have to do with this?

Air conditioning for Baltimore schools is the topic of the report.

[Elmergantry]

5. air conditioning will combat violence?

Really? No air in my school nor my kids...funny no violence problems

[PotatoChip]

6. There was no air conditioning in my daughter's school as well. But she didn't need it.

These children do. Maryland summers are very hot and muggy.

Basic maintenance, along with air conditioning for schools in that region is not an unreasonable allocation of their tax dollars. It's ridiculous that they even have to request it, let alone protest the lack of funding.

[Elmergantry]

8. how did kids learn in maryland before ac

Somehow they did

[ReRe]

12. Question:

ARE you a Democrat? You sure don't sound like one.

[Elmergantry]

13. Answer.

Yes, but one who hasn't given up common-sense for the cause.

[ReRe]

14. Come on...

... speak in plain English.

[Elmergantry]

15. not sure

How thinking poor parenting leads to violence more than a lack of ac means i am not a democrat

[ReRe]

16. Because victim blaming...

... is just one of those things Democrats don't do. Lack of empathy. Inability to see things from someone else's view. Can't walk a mile in someone else's shoes. Do you have any idea what I'm talking about?

[Elmergantry]

17. who was i blaming?

By stating that violence will not be stopped with ac?

[ReRe]

18. I heard you blaming the parents...

... and what the eff do you have against kids having an air conditioned school? How well is a kid going to learn in a hot environment?

[Elmergantry]

19. kids can learn in heat

I did. Yes i blame feral parents for feral children. Empathy doesnt involve making excuses.

[ReRe]

20. I'm not going to alert on you...

... but you are NO Democrat. You are disgusting. Your heart is stone. And I want nothing else to do with your trolling. I am going to silence you though. I hope you come to your senses before karma catches up to you.

[Elmergantry]

21. Well Bless Your Little Heart..NT

[jtuck004]

7. No, because broken adults can't raise children who will fix their problems for them. Gotta

fix the adults first.

[Elmergantry]

9. true

But ac wont fix feral parents. A swift kick in the ass might help tho

[surrealAmerican]

10. The parents in this video don't appear to be "broken".

They look like parents who are trying their best to make the schools better serve their children and their neighbors' children. What happens if they fail?

[jtuck004]

11. It's a little bigger than just that picture. For example, we have a whole nation of lazy-ass adults

burning their world up, who have heated their homes, used coal and petroleum to excess, and are killing their planet. Instead of changing their behavior, they march around with signs as if anything else is more important, and say we need to fix things for the kids.

How are the kids supposed to learn from a bunch of broken adults who haven't the backbone to live like they are telling their kids they will have to? They will hand the kids a burnt up rock with a bunch of dead coral and not enough ability to sustain the life they brought and say "Here ya go".

Before the financial crisis, we had 25 million people on food stamps. Now we have near 50 million, and more people in poverty than we started with. Yet we have enriched bank$ter/jihadists beyond all belief. Didn't have to - could have taken the hit, put the criminals in jail - but it might have cost the wealthy some productivity, some money, and the adults in the room didn't have the guts to do the honorable thing. And we know now that the odds of those families getting out of poverty are now worse than they ever have been, and their kids will be their too. And we left them there with our policy decisions. The ones with not enough food? They will NEVER develop in the way they could have if they had just basic nutrition - what will that cost us all later? But we vote for people who cut their relief.


The "kids are the future" argument is mostly bs, adults trying to escape responsibility. The kids, if they live, are gonna spit on our graves.

The problem to be fixed is now, not later. Us, not "them".