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Old 08-26-2014, 08:39 AM
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Originally Posted by icenine View Post
Chris Matthews was interviewing the Mayor of Ferguson, who seems like a nice guy but sort of disconnected from it all. Matthews was sort of trying to probe him about what was going on in his town and his response was to the effect that "people move in and out too much." Which I did not understand but maybe he meant that people in Brown's part of town move there because they simply are too poor to live anywhere else, and simply move on once they can escape to a better place or worse have to move on if they cannot afford Ferguson.
I tend to be believe that a LOT of the sort of issues that we see in the breakdown of society are -- inherently -- economic problems and nothing else.

Nobody chooses to live in a ghetto and, in a perfect world, ghettos would not exist.
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