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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First, a generalization would have been to characterize "all" - perhaps you are not familiar with the difference between "all" and "some"?

Second, the nearly 20% unemployment rate in Ward 8 is  absolutely dismal and is many times higher than the unemployment rates in several other wards.

Third, don't you agree that it's a problem when people don't have the crucial life skills for getting or keeping jobs?  That's what keeps people poor.  Wouldn't you agree that this needs to be fixed if the issue of multigenerational poverty is ever to be addressed?[/quote]

I did not take issue with the problem of people lacking life skills, education, or job training.  Since neither the Republican nor the Democratic party is against education and training, I saw no reason to debate it.

But the fact remains that when 80% of a community is doing a thing, you can't say the culture is against that thing.  It is just an absurd notion that 83% of Ward 8 goes to work and yet work is not part of the culture.[/quote]

Where did I say it was the culture of all of Ward 8?  You're far more guilty of making broad sweeping statements here than I am.[/quote]

You seem to have forgotten the subject of this thread. Reread please.  [/quote]

I think it is you who has forgotten about the subject of this thread.  Where was Paul Ryan specifically talking about DC's Ward 8?  And where are those supposed broad, sweeping generalizations being made here?  Since when is 20% equal to 100%?  Where was any such claim ever made here?

Look, I'm a bleeding heart liberal Democrat who would be the last person on Earth to side with Paul Ryan but all that seems to be happening in this thread is deflection and it's not really productive or germane, let alone anything that will ever get any of us any closer toward solutions.  All I care about is solutions.  I have enough of the following a.) decades of history that don't show change and b.) empty talk which does not propose any meaningful solutions.  What are the solutions?[/quote]

Oh gosh, you got me.  He didn't specifically mention Ward 8.  I guess he would not include that in "inner city".   And since all you care about is solutions, you must have been very frustrated to hear Paul Ryan's discussion.[/quote]

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