tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034478.post6347068882766317196..comments2024-03-28T03:23:26.359-04:00Comments on Doug Ross @ Journal: The Coming Crime WaveUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034478.post-75379008875302010242011-06-18T22:16:37.629-04:002011-06-18T22:16:37.629-04:00Additionally, what happens when we have no money t...Additionally, what happens when we have no money to pay all these benefits?The Machiavellianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04327367637993162683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034478.post-15737009767338027472011-06-18T22:14:02.680-04:002011-06-18T22:14:02.680-04:00Dear God, have mercy on us. I tell ya Doug, this t...Dear God, have mercy on us. I tell ya Doug, this terrifies me. I have young children, and while they are in a two parent home with me and my husband, they will be growing up in a world surrounded by fatherless criminals. I grew up in a neighborhood that went bad right before my eyes in the 70s and 80s. (Not coincidentally, it was also at a time where "everyone's" parents were divorced or getting divorced and only a handful of us in the neighborhood still had both parents.) It was a regular occurrence for kids to have their bikes stolen and people regularly got "jumped" by roving bands of thugs. Cars were blown up in the streets, houses broken into routinely. Our living room window was destroyed twice, once by a brick and once by a bullet. These things never made the news. I got out of that neighborhood, and now my family will likely bear witness to the entire country becoming just like the place I was so glad to finally escape. And I grew up on freaking Long Island. Not exactly what you think of when you hear of suburbia, right?Zillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284986414729616917noreply@blogger.com