Dukasaur wrote:ConfederateSS wrote:More proof...look at America's inner cities...The proof is in the pudding...
What do you think that proves? The rich have moved out to playgrounds in the suburbs. They've utterly abandoned the inner cities to the poor. Of course people with no money can't support the needs of great cities, and those cities decay.
80% of the people who take advantage of (very expensive) urban highways live outside of the city limits and don't have to pay taxes to keep up those highways. They don't contribute to policing them, or to providing fire protection, or anything else. Then they have the fucking gall to point fingers at the poor people left behind holding the bag.
Three responses:
1) It is NOT only whites that flee the inner cities. Blacks who are successful opt NOT to live in those communities plagued by violence and crime. Do you blame them for moving away from poor education, poverty, crime, drugs, gangs, and violence?
2) The same can be said of those attempting to migrate (ILLEGALLY) into the USA from El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatamala, as well as parts of Mexico and other countries.
3) And I have to disagree with Duk on this one point: more money alone does not solve the problems of inner cities. Case in point: What School division in Virginia
spends the MOST on their students, per student? [btw: Because of the recognition of state leaders, those areas which are economically disadvantaged receive more state aid to compensate for that lack of a tax base for pay for schools (and teachers and supplies and the cost of running a school system).]
Richmond City Schools.
And where is Richmond Schools in terms of achievement? in the
bottom five (of some 130 school divisions).
The supporting data was not easy to find, BUT:
Richmond City Pblc Schs $14,585
Richmond Co Pblc Schs $11,489
Looking at the data, Richmond City was #1 in expenditure per pupil. I offer Richmond County for the purposes of a comparison.
Richmond County is NOT near Richmond City, the capital of Virginia. It is a small rural school division some about 100 miles east of Richmond City.
Richmond County is located in the heart of the Northern Neck of Virginia, where it lies on the north side of the Rappahannock River. Its 192 square miles of community is within one hour's drive of the city of Richmond, Virginia and within two hours' drive of Washington D.C. Throughout its existence, farming, fishing, and forestry have formed the backbone of the county's economy.
https://co.richmond.va.us/about-us