My Rant about the quality of life going down in America?

[1stdeadeye]

Let me tell you a story!

Camden, NJ is the worst city in America to live in according to US News and World Report. It is more like Beruit then America!

The city school system has a drop out rate of over 52%. That means you are more likely to fail then succeed. Camden is trying to revitalize and rebuild itself. Camden is home to Rutgers-Camden, Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, and Cooper Hospital to name a few. Cooper and Lady of Lourdes are nationally recognized medical centers.

Around 2 years ago, The Camden County Board of Chosen Freeholders attempted a welfare to work project with Cooper Hospital with 100 city residents. Camden County would pay Cooper to train them, and then pay 1/2 of their salaries for the following 2 years.

Of that group: 35 quit in the first two weeks. 17 didn't pass the training class. 30 more did not last their 90 days. The remaining 18 stuck it out and made a career at cooper. 1 year later, of the 18 that made it, guess how many lived in Camden still? 2!!!!

The rest moved out of that city. Most of them to sicklerville and winslow (Mango's beat).

What am I getting at?

Look for your chances and take them!!! Don't be a quitter or a dumb-@ss! You have a degree so use it! If not in your field then another. A degree gets you in the door, nothing more. I work in the financial field with a political science degree. Get cocky. Go to interviews with the mindset that this company will be lucky to get me and not I really need this job. Desperation turns an employer (and a woman) off real quick!

Once you seize you chance move! Encourage your neighbors to better themselves as well. How are you going to change America? One person at a time, starting with yourself!

Hit the job boards! Look at banking, the military, etc... Banking will get you benefits as well as pay for you to continue your ecducation. Do not turn down an entry level (teller) job, everyone had to start somewhere!

You live in Maryland don't you? Prince George's county too?

[Zumina]

Teach the masses proper principles, and they will govern themselves.

[Star_Base_CGI]

Your looking at Baltimore city. COmpanies are hiring %38 fewer graduates. Maybe even less than that.

New Jersey is just as bad. I think they are the stolen car capitol of the US. LOL where do all these stolen cars go? China? Its like thousands of cars disappearing...

The whole DC area is like a major Hotspot.
Blame Washington...

Best I can hope for is a small job to pay my electricity, food and car parts.

Eventually Im going to sell the house and move.

Im either giving the house to my parents towards a bigger house or Im getting a van and moving out.

[1stdeadeye]

Look at entry level. Get your foot in the door and then focus on moving up! In Baltimore, you have a ton of financial companies!!! Bank of America, Wachovia, Allfirst(based in Baltimore), USF&G(Baltimore based), T.Rowe Price(based in Baltimore) to name a few!!!

Good luck!

[Konigballer]

I agree with deadeye, get out there and dont gripe. Hell, listen how positive deadeye is and he's from friggin' jersey! I dont know if the military cut off age for inducties has passed you but its always an option. Anyways, training standards are the lowest they've been for a volunteer US Army in decades, so even a "trekkie" could get in.

[-Carnifex-]

Re: My Rant about the quality of life going down in America?

Originally posted by Star_Base_CGI


Im talking about jobs, taxs, abortion, drugs, homelessness and inflation.

Yeah, damn those people having abortions, they sure ruin America for the rest of us..

[845]

Look how hard the kids are these days. They should be singing mickey lullabies but no they sing this

http://www.sat1.de/starsearch/video_anzeige.hbs?videoid=288046&kid=92&finalstatus=2&kategorie=1#

[Smegma]

Originally posted by 845
Look how hard the kids are these days. They should be singing mickey lullabies but no they sing this

http://www.sat1.de/starsearch/video_...2&kategorie=1#

Lol, and what does this have to do with the problems in America. Who are you to tell this kid, who isn't much younger than you and I, what he should or shouldn't be singing. Dont act like you know what "kids these days should be doing", your a kid and I'm a kid, saying stuff like that makes you look foolish IMO.

[gibby]

Well Star Base...if you don't want to take any of our constructive criticism and use it to your advantage, then that's your fault. If you don't agree to what we have to say, it's not our fault you choose to stay where you are.

Sure, times are tough. Hell, I still have hard times but I don't dwell on it nor do I put the blame on society. Whatever happens in my life happens because of what I put into it. How much effort can you honestly say you've put into your current situation?

Sure, we can be fake about it and sympathize with you...but I'd rather not as that wouldn't do you any good in the long run. But like I said, all we can do is offer our advice and suggestions. It's up to you what you want to do with them.

Some people are blessed with a life where everything comes easy, or things are provided for them. But there are those who choose not to give up and keep on trying...those that do usually end up being successful through their own efforts. Most often, that builds character and is quite rewarding for those who see it through.

So either you allow yourself to keep on being pushed down, or you get back up and push back yourself. That's all I have to say to you bud. Good luck with your life.

[Collegeboy]

There is one word that could have solved this problem a long time ago. Why


Our country is so in-depth in the barbaric and age old ideas of pay back and violence that whenever someone commits a crime we fill we are solving the problems if we just punish the person who committed it. This "solving" of the problem only leads to great problems and an increase in crime. How do you lower crime? You ask Why did this person feel the need to rob this store, why did they have to kill this person, why why why why. But everyone is afraid to find out the answers so they never ask the question.

[aaron_mag]

Originally posted by Collegeboy
There is one word that could have solved this problem a long time ago. Why


Our country is so in-depth in the barbaric and age old ideas of pay back and violence that whenever someone commits a crime we fill we are solving the problems if we just punish the person who committed it. This "solving" of the problem only leads to great problems and an increase in crime. How do you lower crime? You ask Why did this person feel the need to rob this store, why did they have to kill this person, why why why why. But everyone is afraid to find out the answers so they never ask the question.

Those questions have been asked since the dawn of time. Sorry but eventually you have to stop asking why and answer the important question of "what are we going to do about it." You may say that we have found the wrong answer to the question with locking people up, etc. There is SOME truth to that. There is also SOME truth to the fact that funding studies of why "good" people do "bad" things and how to rehabilitate them turns out to be ineffective and not cost effective. I'm not saying lock everyone up. I'm just saying that your post is in error. That question has been asked repeatedly.....

[1stdeadeye]

Sure!

Originally posted by Collegeboy
There is one word that could have solved this problem a long time ago. Why


Our country is so in-depth in the barbaric and age old ideas of pay back and violence that whenever someone commits a crime we fill we are solving the problems if we just punish the person who committed it. This "solving" of the problem only leads to great problems and an increase in crime. How do you lower crime? You ask Why did this person feel the need to rob this store, why did they have to kill this person, why why why why. But everyone is afraid to find out the answers so they never ask the question.

What an insight!!

Seeing as how violence never existed until now in America and how America invented crime what a brilliant idea!

Aaron Mag has it right. Why isn't the question.

Hey Collegeboy, Why did Kane kill Abel? Crime and punishment have been debated since the dawn of time and will be long after we are gone. Your self righeous diatribe can't answer the problem.

On the bright side, I have missed you maniacal rantings!!

[pito189]

Originally posted by InfinatyBPS
Don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming all violence on rap, but it certainly dosen't help.

Not calling you out Infinaty, just using what you said, other people said it too.

I listen to rap pretty constantly, and I haven't murdered, stabbed, done any drive bys, done drugs, smoked weed, smoked a cigarette, smacked any Hoes', driven cars on 24" dubs. I seem to be missing out.

If your going to blame rap, then you should take 95% of the blame that you are putting on rap, and place it on TV. You can watch TV anytime of the day and see people killing each other. A lot more people watch TV than listen to rap.

It all boils down to parenting if you want to talk about kids rumbling in the streets. If the PARENTS don't give a damn about their children getting an education, then the kids won't either. If the parents don't ask their kids where they are going everyday after school, then the kids will get it in huge brawls. If the parents don't CARE, then the kids won't care either.

You can rant all you want, why don't you run for an public office, and get things changed.

[bornl33t]

just to through some brain food in here, how do you feel you're superiors ( supervisor, parents, govenor, police, president, etc ) are doing with the statement "Do as I say, not as I do"? Are they leading by example?

[shartley]