Only a BBC reporter would cover this--the American left, of which the Old Stream Media has largely been a part, is too embarrassed to do so--the dramatic, difficult to be believed rise and fall of Gary, Indiana. Truly stunning. To see what it used to be--representing the best of America (albeit with vicious racism), notice the idyllic old footage of the downtown that looks like Keene, NH, with a vibrant downtown with people with dazzling smiles--and now what it's become, the ghost town of largely Underclass Blacks that's it's become is worthy of the novelistic approach of a Tolstoy or Dreiser.
I'm almost speechless.
I'm almost speechless.
Paul Mason, the BBC investigative reporter, is a bit blinded by his pro-stimulus reporting. His article is better in that it quotes Mitch Daniels, who may be the next President of the United States, who acknowledges money won't fix the problem. High taxes, crime, poor gubmit services, and decrepit schools convinced people to flee.
Money ain't gonna fix Gary. Only diversifying the economy and the racial composition of the overwhelmingly Black city will do that. The last census put the pop. at 84 percent Black, the highest percentage of any U.S. city above 100,000.
And fire hosing money is not going to fix the underlying problems: illegitimacy, drug use, criminality, poor academic standards. Race is the elephant in the room. Specifically race and IQ which, for a brief time in the mid 1990s with the publication of _The Bell Curve_ , was openly discussed. Now, however, except for the racial realists like yours truly, it's a topic that has been suppressed more firmly by liberal orthodoxy.
Some realism in human nature, please. Our utopian fantasies regarding education are finally coming back to the realization Thomas Jefferson knew over two centuries ago in his _Notes on the State of Virginia_: that the majority of people, while being trainable, aren't educable. Our schools don't make this distinction, as everyone should be going to college, is the common desire. The Underclass isn't even trainable, except for the most menial of tasks. But to do that cultural factors come into play that don't make honor work seem beneath one.
Money ain't gonna fix Gary. Only diversifying the economy and the racial composition of the overwhelmingly Black city will do that. The last census put the pop. at 84 percent Black, the highest percentage of any U.S. city above 100,000.
And fire hosing money is not going to fix the underlying problems: illegitimacy, drug use, criminality, poor academic standards. Race is the elephant in the room. Specifically race and IQ which, for a brief time in the mid 1990s with the publication of _The Bell Curve_ , was openly discussed. Now, however, except for the racial realists like yours truly, it's a topic that has been suppressed more firmly by liberal orthodoxy.
Some realism in human nature, please. Our utopian fantasies regarding education are finally coming back to the realization Thomas Jefferson knew over two centuries ago in his _Notes on the State of Virginia_: that the majority of people, while being trainable, aren't educable. Our schools don't make this distinction, as everyone should be going to college, is the common desire. The Underclass isn't even trainable, except for the most menial of tasks. But to do that cultural factors come into play that don't make honor work seem beneath one.
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