Poverty in the Mississipi Delta (jesus christ)

[ReturnOfJudah]

I fukk with my peeps from Mississippi though.. don't yall take it the wrong way. Parts of up north Louisiana aint shyt to brag on either

 

[OfTheCross]

Brother, most people live better than that in the 3rd world

Which one?

Mississippi is obviously a horrible situation, though...but that' still better than 3rd world

 

[Starski]

Making Newark look like a god send

 

[THEREALBRAND]

Which one?

Mississippi is obviously a horrible situation, though...but that' still better than 3rd world

I don't think the average person realizes how bad 3rd World countries are unless they're from one, have been to one, or they have family from one. Those people in Mississippi have it bad, but it's not even comparable.

 

[omnifax]

My mother's family is in Tunica, and while they aren't living the high life it isn't nearly that bad. I'm thankful she came to live with my grandfather here in Michigan when she was little instead of staying down there.

 

[TRFG]

I don't think the average person realizes how bad 3rd World countries are unless they're from one, have been to one, or they have family from one. Those people in Mississippi have it bad, but it's not even comparable.

I'm from a 3rd world country.

Do you know how the term 1st world, second world came up? It's a stupid outdated term for America and it's alleys during the cold war.

Get a passport and leave the country and see for your self.

 

[sportscribe]

No.

American cities are poor because there politicians block aid, not because they don't have it. The government could print out as much money as it wanted TODAY and send it to these communities but if the politics are divisive then the money never reaches those areas.

Most places in Africa simply do not have the local economies or banking infrastructure to do the same which is why they take on debt from countries like America and institutions like the IMF.

The question she raised was, "why are celebrities donating to foreign countries and not disenfranchised neighborhoods in America?", not "why isn't there any trickle down of financial aid in these neighborhoods?". You misunderstood my post completely.

 

[Colicat]

My father's side of the family is from Mississippi... and I am always amazed at how people mentally adjust to the abject poverty ....

Extreme environments like that

 

[JahFocus CS]

I don't wanna see anybody else here complaining about their jobs anymore

Somebody always got it worse while y'all complaining about your office jobs there's someone 9ut there taking a shyt in a shed next to a lawnmower

Nah, the point is that we all deserve better, and should unite on that basis. All of these problems are linked.

 

[Poitier]

The question she raised was why are celebrities donating to foreign countries and not disenfranchised neighborhoods, not why there isn't any trickle down of financial aid. You misunderstood my post completely.

There's a narrative that they stick to, and that is America is the affluent big brother of the world that takes care of it's less prosperous brothers.

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America IS the affluent big brother of the world. It is selective with whom it allocates it wealth, usually by race, but there is NOTHING stopping this country from printing a blank check for any of these impoverished American communities.

 

[sportscribe]

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America IS the affluent big brother of the world. It is selective with whom it allocates it wealth, usually by race, but there is NOTHING stopping this country from printing a blank check for any of these impoverished American communities.

These are the areas that the country has forgotten. If they were sitting on prime real estate or were in an area with high visibility or at least population density, they would do something to improve the infrastructure. As we know, the government hardly does things without weighing cost-benefit analysis. Pouring money into low income areas with poor job prospects may to the government seem like a drain on public resources. They would rather pour money into areas with high job prospects where they can recouperate the public financing through taxes. The cycle of poverty in these areas is unfortunate and they will need more than just humanitarian efforts to bring them out of it.

 

[Poitier]

As we know, the government hardly does things without weighing cost-benefit analysis. Pouring money into low income areas with poor job prospects may to the government seem like a drain on public resources. They would rather pour money into areas with high job prospects where they can recouperate the public financing through taxes.

There is no risk or cost or drain. Its all a sham http://www.thecoli.com/threads/imf-...afford-to-live-with-high-debt-forever.324868/

 

[sportscribe]

There is no risk or cost or drain. Its all a sham http://www.thecoli.com/threads/imf-...afford-to-live-with-high-debt-forever.324868/

inherited public debt represents a sunk cost – so, abstracting from rollover risk, there is little purpose in paying it down by raising taxes or cutting productive government spending (of course if there is scope to cut unproductive spending this should be pursued).

Read the article in your own post again. You are conflating separate issues. The article is suggesting a policy where governments don't pay down debt by raising taxes or cutting "productive spending".

All you are doing is making my point, as I have stated that pouring money into low income/low opportunity areas can be construed as being less productive by economists.

 

[Poitier]

pay down debt by raising taxes or cutting "productive spending".

Who do you think feels the effect of this???

pouring money into low income/low opportunity areas can be construed as being less productive by economists.

ITS CALLED AUSTERITY

 

[sportscribe]

Who do you think feels the effect of this???




ITS CALLED AUSTERITY

Austerity is the exact opposite of what is being suggested in the article.

Please explain what you understand by austerity.