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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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Different PP.  I don't disagree with the notion that children need to learn these things, but I think you'll be waiting for a long time if you just throw it back to the parents.  Often, the parents aren't teaching these things because they haven't learned them themselves.  Or, the circumstances of their jobs make it nearly impossible for them to impart the knowledge back onto their kids (I think both are very much in play).  I don't really know the solution, but I do know that if you just wag your fingers at parents not doing their job nothing is going to change.[/quote]

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