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[quote=Anonymous][quote]DC's crime has been going down - so let's start there. If you really want to end youth crime in DC here is how you did it:

1. Make sure all children have: housing, healthy food and high quality education from preschool through high school.

2. Develop real vocational training programs.

3. Provide accessible, quality health care for all.

4. Provide youths in Wards 7 and 8 will FREE sports programs - for example, if you want to play baseball, free gloves, bats, catcher's equipment and specialized coaching. Plus provide transportation to and from practices and games.

5. Give folks in Ward 7 and 8 housing grants to purchase homes.

Oh and, maybe tell the 10% of America who has 90% of the country's wealth - you are actually going to have to pay your fair share.[/quote]

Same BS attitude that is responsible for this ridiculous and dangerous youth sentencing law.  Missing from your list is any sense of PARENTAL responsibility.  That, more than anything is at the heart of DC's urban crime problem.  Without a parent teaching a child how to get up and get to school, or a job, [b]on time[/b]--and, once there--[b]to listen, pay attention, and be respectful[/b] then no amount of education and vocational training is going to help.  The liberal political establishment in this town has blamed every societal institution for the behavior of these juveniles except the one group at whose feet it lies---[b]the parents[/b].   That truth needs to be said and DC politicians are too gutless and blinded by liberal white guilt to say it.  As for free sports program, wasn't there a DC council member convicted within the last 7 years for embezzling tax dollars for phony youth programs?  There's no shortage of DC tax money being allocated to those type of programs---it's that DC's kleptocratic bureaucracy never manages to actually get the money to legitimate non-profits instead of  DC "friends & family" graft.

And you think that people in wards 7 and 8 should just get handed homes?  Do they need to have jobs in order to receive said homes, or are you just talking about a free house?  And if a free house, then how do the utilities get paid or the leaky roof get fixed? 
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