Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Country Gangstaz | Mother Jones

Country Gangstaz | Mother Jones

With nearly one-fifth of the county's population below the poverty line, some young people here say they see gangs as the most reliable way to make a living. This large recruitment pool, along with ample empty space for clandestine drug and weapon deals and admittedly overwhelmed law enforcement, have led more than a dozen established gangs to set up outposts here.
So add this in with the accomplishments of the "Austerity Now, Austerity Forever" crowd. They've already proven their bones at making terrorists so now they move on to gangs and gang violence. That's right. Continue cutting public education, continue cutting back on public sector jobs, continue sending jobs overseas, continue foreclosing on houses and continue squeezing the poor and middle class and they'll respond in ways that could get pretty ugly. Public education was instituted in large part to solve the problems of poverty, crime, and employment. Public sector jobs constitute and essential portion of the labor market. Cutting all of this is part of the "pain" we must bear according to the plutocrat funders of the Teabaggers.

Listen to the policy discussions going on and you have to listen ever so closely to even hear about the most serious problems facing us as a country, the jobs crisis, the infrastructure crisis, the green energy crisis, and the education crisis. All the talk is about debt. Solving the debt problem helps plutocrats, hurts the people.

The elections in Wisconsin are only the shots across the bow. The mixed results there should only serve to show the difficulty of the task of facing down the ruthless capitalists who care only about "creating a good climate for business," or "rewarding competence." Anytime you see these codes just think, "$$$$$$ we want your $$$$$."

More work to do.

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