Goose wrote:

tennyson wrote:

Just Fred wrote:

I believe in getting to the root of things like this, and in my opinion, alot of it begins with economics.  At one time, cities like Baltimore and Cleveland were hubs for industrial and manufacturing activity .............. they made stuff for us.  Over the last few decades those jobs began disappearing as more and more manufacturing was outsourced leaving many people behind in urban areas.  You can take it from there, but we have lost over 50,000 factories since the 80's and the ripple effect of that has to have had an impact.

I am sure that has played a large role, but in regards to this specific item, just what then is the solution. We have discussed this numerous times. Most of those jobs IMHO are not coming back (even when the manufacturing is returning) because many of the good paying jobs are now being done by automation. So let's say you have a magic wand --- what is the solution ? 

And when and IF we have the solution, will people then care about their neighborhoods ?  There might be some reasons to believe that. What do you all think ? 

 

It's a fair point to note that some of these extremely poor neighborhoods are very dysfunctional.
It's not just a lack of money, but includes other issues such as the flight of more highly functional individuals to other areas.
Certainly an extremely challenging problem.

Indeed. 

I had posted a while back on one of the topics about the Baltimore riots, an article by John Blake called "Lord of the Flies" comes to Baltimore. Below is a repeat of it, that highlights many of the issues that have befallen these neighborhoods. 

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/02/us/lord-of-the-flies-baltimore/index.html


 

Last edited by tennyson (5/27/2015 7:12 pm)