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Originally Posted by Bucco
Trying to stay on thread here, but blaming all of this on poverty as many do does not wash with me anyway.....the poor of the 30's and 40's made it and I am sure there was crime but not like what is happening today.
They had one thing that Grace pointed out...a family, a discipline system..a focus.
We have lost all of that.....do you know, to your point, that while I was in Tampa I discovered that groups got together to train others how to beat the system....how to insure you never work ?
I am for for doing all we can help, but we are doing a poor job of insuring it is done correctly, with compassion and fairness. By not even discussing welfare versus min wage is wrong...no matter the accuracy of the numbers. IT IS AN ISSUE....again, we seem to be predisposed to make every thing political instead of using common sense.
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So what was the murder rate in the 30's when "crime was not happening like it is today'?
List of countries by intentional homicide rate by decade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Don't you hate it when your assumptions are disproven by real data? 1930 murder rate 8.8 2011 rate 4.7 Not even close. I strongly agree that raising the minimum wage is part of a solution. My earlier post on the Cato institutes study was deleted as off topic, correctly by the moderator