You guys act like the entire percentage increase in crime is coming from the people from New Orleans. Kids are getting worse. Especially when they hear there is a recession going on.
Every year more and more kids enter high school, and more drop out. Kids try to be hustlers, drug dealers, and steal from other people. The whole attitude of not snitching or confronting these kids when they steal is wrong. They don't learn that they will pay and others suffer for their crimes in the real world. The system sucks.
For real. I know a bunch of 15 year olds who read the Wall Street Journal. Milton Friedman says another few months of stagnant job growth and they turn straight to the drug game.
Do you have trouble with critical thinking? As these drop outs get older, it's either McDonald's or become a "hustler."
I'm only going to address this part of your post because I just don't care that much about being politically correct to please everyone. My cousin is one of them, a Katrina refugee. Her apartment in Jefferson Parrish was destroyed because of Katrina. She takes absolutely no offense to the term refugee. Is that close enough for ya? I don't expect you to agree, but to many people it is an argument of semantics.
Seriously... why be offended by "refugee"? Definition of REFUGE: 1. shelter or protection from danger, trouble, etc.: to take refuge from a storm. 2. a place of shelter, protection, or safety. 3. anything to which one has recourse for aid, relief, or escape. So... yeah.
I'll take your admission of suddenly producing a cousin from Katrina with a grain of salt. If it were simply a matter of semantics, how do you account for the fact that the national media ceased using the term after people called them on it? Being PC isn't hard. In this instance, you know the before/during/after of how the term came to be used ...and you still insist on using the term for no other reason than being stubborn. You can't even use ignorance as an excuse. Seriously, how difficult is it to pick a different word? ...and how does it change your life to do so? Your refusal, when all media outlets open appologized and changed their behavior, is why it smacks of racism on your part. Sersiously, why are you making such a big deal about it? If it's just semantics, why do you care? It has no impact on your life whatsoever. None. Zero. Just asking. This is a rhetorical question because I'm done with this thread. I'm not even gonna look at it again cause people who argue against being PC are always sheltered people. Being PC isn't hard at all. I ALWAYS promote the discussion of race ...not try to pretend race doesn't exists. But to discuss race it requires one of two things. 1.) Know what the hell you are talking about. 2.) Just don't say anything at all. It isn't hard. If you chose to openly ignore rule #1 and 2, then you are probably have racist tentendices or are just ignorant ...which often breeds racism, btw. /end thread for me.
Yeah, I just made her up for the sake of argument. I'll take your choosing of rule #2 as evidence that you have no idea of rule #1 especially since you, like the Al Sharpton's and Jesse Jackson's of the world, choose to turn things like this into a racial issue although being a refugee is not necessarily anything racial.
Is this the same story? http://www.ultimatefortbend.com/2009/12/text-messages-help-free-kidnapping-victim
What kids have you been around? Most kids have no clue there is a recession going on until it impacts them directly. Since the effect of this recession has been remarkably light in the Houston area, your theory pretty much fails. NEXT!!!!!!!!!!!!
You guys act like the entire percentage increase in crime is coming from the people from New Orleans. Kids are getting worse.
I suppose that it is possible that there being an increase in diabetes at a time when we live more sedentary lives could be a coincidence too...I just doubt it. Sometimes the simplest answer is correct. The rise in crime post-Katrina in the Houston area (particularly Sharpstown) is just too much to be a mere coincidence.
