When this blog first began in 2007, I would write about the poverty magnet. Those bureaucrats and agencies set up to assist the poor managed to attract a lot of clients to Allentown. They offered free move in money and were very successful in their mission.... Allentown is now officially impoverished. In addition to the poverty industry, we now have graduated into the violence industry.
We are told that if we redirect some of our policing funds to those agencies set up to combat violence, we will reduce crime in the community. I will leave details of the program to those woke enough to believe in such notions. However, they might want to consider that despite spending $155 million dollars on such programs, Philadelphia had 500 killed from its 2,200 shootings last year.
Although I write about things which are thought about by many but left unsaid by most, I have no delusions about effecting change. However, I will note that many who care about quality of life issues have already moved out of Dodge.
artwork by Mark Beyer
Special interests, and self servers who have no real concern for the average citizens are fully in control of the city. This explains a lot. What is harder to explain is why the voters keep electing the same people and expect change.
ReplyDeleteOne has to wonder if all these programs, starting with Daddona proclaiming Allentown a refuge city were incompetence or a deliberate destruction of our cities? Having succeeded in destabilizing most all cities in the nation, they are advocating similar policies for the whole nation. Is this just incompetence or intentional?
ReplyDeleteMike these same organizations that suposidly help the impoverished are the ones building urban decay by design in city's across America. There helping is helping themselves in building America's new lifestyles at the cost of death and despair of others.
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