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Sean245 Wrote: Jul 12, 2012 9:52 AM
Thank you for illustrating the sit on your hands and rationalize form of modern liberal thought. Subsidizing the wrong values through welfare is an active form of social engineering. Dismantling welfare and refusing to finance bad behavior is passive. It will take a generation but people will eventually figure out that hard work and thrift equals survival. You don’t have to impose any of those nasty Christian values on anyone, people uncomfortable in their poverty will figure out what’s right.
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Donjindra Wrote: Jul 12, 2012 1:24 PM
I'm against practically all welfare. But blaming welfare for these problems is going to get you nowhere. That realization is not equivalent to "sitting on the hands." Let's not be simplistic. Besides, Hicks is flat wrong with her Chicken Little fears. Crime is down. Chicago is an exception.
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Cindy35 Wrote: Jul 12, 2012 2:05 PM
Chicago is one exception because the law abiding citizen can not legally carry a gun on the street. Hence you have the criminals running roughshod over the city. Crime goes down where the citizen can arm himself.
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Donjindra Wrote: Jul 12, 2012 2:20 PM
Now that's just plain dumb.
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For a man known in political and media circles for his prodigious application of the “f-word” (as a noun, an adjective, a verb, an adverb — most likely all eight parts of speech), Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel sounds like the veritable schoolmarm when recently scolding that city’s murderous gangs.
In an interview with CBS anchor Scott Pelley about Chicago’s rising murder rate — which has increased 38 percent over 2011 — Mr. Emanuel reflected on comments he made just after the tragic June 27 shooting that took the life of 7-year-old Heaven Sutton.
Heaven was in front of...
The gangs in Chicago reflect wrong values