Hat tip to
Sense of Events for this heartbreaking photograph from Ferguson.
Natalie DuBose, the single mom and single proprietor of "Natalie's Cakes and More"
worked long and hard to open a store of her own, and a rioter broke in her front window, destroying other property as well. If the profiles are any indication, probably someone who isn't from Ferguson. Probably someone hired to be there by any number of rent a goon agencies there trying to implement the final
Cloward-Piven push that
destroys society. Despite the setback,
Natalie isn't giving up.
"I'm baking today," Dubose told CNNMoney, as the sound of broken glass
being swept up can be heard over the phone. "We have orders to go out
for Thanksgiving. I can't tell the people -- I won't tell the people --
that I'm canceling."
The shop's main window is "busted out completely. They threw a chair in it to bust it out ... It's a big mess," said Dubose, who opened Natalie's Cakes as recently as June.
Despite the mess, however, Dubose says she will continue to bake. She can't afford to give up now, having invested all she had into a business that was funded through bake sales at flea markets.
"I am a single mom, a mother of two," she said. "This is everything that I own. I can't walk away from it. I just got to start up and start baking again."
Poverty doesn't cause crime just like poverty doesn't cause riots. Crime causes poverty and riots. Only the hardiest will stay in a place where they have to rebuild their business or recovery from robberies and other crimes. New businesses will think long and hard before going into a neighborhood like that. Over time that ensures the poverty of an area.
There seems to be many kinds of poverty. We have all seen those pictures of some poor people in rural Africa sitting on the ground living in mud huts and eating things we call exterminators to take care of. That is real poverty. I grew up poor and We struggled to keep everyone fed and heat the house and pay the bills. Most people I knew then lived pretty much the same way and as a child I didn't know I was "poor". But in today's poverty the government pays the poor person in cash and benefits $30k or more a year and the poor person has two 40" TVs a cell phone or two, a car, has her nails done professionally and her hair done a couple times a week. The new poor or in poverty in the sense that they still want and need "free stuff". They may get $400 a week in food stamps but the local store gives them fifty cents on the dollar so that they have money for cigarettes, booze and drugs. No worries in addition to paying the kids mother in food stamps to feed the kids the government feeds them again in school sometimes three meals a day. That is the modern poverty in the U.S. I think the correct conclusion is that welfare cause crime. Too much free time, too much entitled feeling, and not enough gratitude to the hard working people who support them through the tax and welfare laws. It is time to end welfare.
ReplyDeleteI really like your last sentences, I think the correct conclusion is that welfare cause crime. Too much free time, too much entitled feeling, and not enough gratitude to the hard working people who support them through the tax and welfare laws.
ReplyDeleteWe could do volumes on that.