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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some ppl in Baltimore have sorter life spans than North Koreans. How can that be ignored or defended on any level?[/quote]

It shouldn't be.

How do we address it without telling those people their homes are disgusting? How do we help lift them up?

I would bet many of them would appreciate an increase in minimum wage. How about making sure all Americans have affordable health insurance and access to medical care, and not just emergency care but preventative care? How about sending some funding to these neighborhoods for urban renewal? How about low interest loans for those who want to set up new businesses in poor areas? How about offering free college to all who graduate from high school in blighted areas?  How about calling the Baltimore slumlords to task for violations of building codes on their properties? Make those slumlords do upkeep.

Insulting tweets are easy to do and are what lazy "leaders" resort to. Actual leadership and accomplishing results are hard work.[/quote]

I think you’re dancing around the real issues. How do we convince poor people that being pregnant at 14 should not be their goal?  Absentee fathers are NOT the norm?  Gangs and guns aren’t the solution?

Hard to change that when it’s been what they know generation after generation. [/quote]

By giving them actual real chances at a better life? By offering opportunities they think they don't have/aren't able to take advantage of? By raising minimum wages so that people can actually live off them and thus don't feel like the deck is stacked against them? Who growing up in squalor wants to work 3 jobs to earn just enough to live above the poverty line when you might make 100x as much selling illegal substances?

Speaking of guns, how about tightening access to them? Are you on board with that?[/quote]

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