Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "The Officer Tatum" channel.

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  16. With all the advances that did happen in this country in the 50s and 60s. One still can not prevent individuals from being racist. Aside from individuals in all communities. there are other factors causing a lot of the problems in America today 1) The break down of the family. And with it the rise of single parent households. Especially involving teen aged mothers. Children without a father in their lives. And fathers who could care less. Too many of both. How to fix it? The only answer I can think of is a return to being affiliated with a church. 2) Did the Great Society and all of the social programs that began with it really help? Some did. Some didn't. One thing that didn't was the replacement of the commodities program that distributed food to those who truely needed the help with food stamps and EBT cards. The food stuffs the government bought for use in these programs was usually to higher quality than what was normally available in the local grocery store. Maybe there wasn't fresh produce but what about planting a small garden. I see people shopping with EBT cards and all too often all I see in the cart is stuff you put in a microwave. My wife contribute heavily to a church run food bank. The people running the program told me that most recipients prefer to receive prepared heat and serve foods. Whole generations that don't know how to cook? 3) The big killer. Job loss. Across both the White and Black communities. And typically the jobs that people can find have less benefits and lower wages than the jobs list to off shore. All in the name of cutting costs. 4) Drugs. From crack in the inner city to meth in the country. And drug use is destructive to everyone. The lives lost to addiction. Not just ODs but the productive lives lost and the damage to families around them. The lives list to violence in cities like Chicago. Let's be honest. Aside from crimes of passion just how many of the murders in our cities are the result of turf wars by gangs over drugs. And every single drug user is contributing to that violence by financing it. Putting the user's Iin jail doesn't seem to work. And if you put the people running the gangs selling the stuff they will either run the operation from behind bars or get replaced by somebody else. There simply is too much money to be made.
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  75. Kids playing with toy guns is nothing new. As a child of the 50s we played "Cowboys and Indians" and or violence inspired activities. But we also had a moral upbringing centered on family and church. Our schools were orderly. One teacher often had class of 40 kids. We did not dare get in trouble at school. Because the trouble in school was nothing compared to what you got at home. This all started to change in the late 60s. That's when the slow at that time explosion of births by single mothers happened. That's when the family started to fall apart in all segments and demographics of society. Saddly for the Black "community" (1) they went into free fall faster than other demographics. Personally I blame three things. First, LBJ's Great Society which greatly expanded the governments role in the lives of the poor (2). Second, The Voting Rights Act which wedded the Black community to the Democratic Party ever since (3). LBJ was quoted on this in the 60s. And thirdly. And most important. The decline of manufacturing jobs in the US starting in the 1970s. Plus their re-location first to the South and then overseas. How many lower income families, Black, White or Hispanic, depended on the income that a father brought home from such employment? How much of those communities indirectly relied on that income as it got spread around to different businesses? This hit the inner cities of places like Chicago, Philidephia, Detroit, Milwaukee and others especially hard. 1) How can anyone call a demographic that large a "community". 2) Well intentioned or not we all know what the road to hell is paved with. 3) Saddly the Democratic Party on the national level seems more concerned with the social safety net than doing things to expand economic opportunities. The poor saddly will likely always be with us. Some us, Black, White, Hispanic, just do not seem to be able to handle money. It burns a hole in our pockets and drifts away. But the best way to ensure economic opportunity is through education. And it starts with schools that do not have to put up with the crap that goes on today.
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  102. Nancy's hubby is too damn old to be driving a Porsche. I'm 69 and I wouldn't drive one. Even if I could afford it. He's 82 freaking years old. No way he should be driving a high performance vehicle. It may be considered un-American by dome people but I happen to think that there should be licensing requirements for high performance street vehicles. We do it for aircraft. I know some states do it for motorcycles. The idea of people who have no idea of how to handle a car with some of the horsepower outputs sold today frankly scares me. If this is first chargeable offense (1). Then he deserves to be handled in the court system just like anybody else. He won't be going to jail. But he should be losing his license for the time period required under California law. With his money (2) the fines won't hurt him. I am assuming that California has mandatory counseling to determine if you have a drinking problem. If he is determined to have one he should be put into a counseling program (3) and be approved by said program before any chance of getting his driving privileges back. 1) Practially a 100% sure thing this is not the first time he's been under the influence behind the wheel. I think that it's pretty much assured if you drink and drive at some point you've done it. Has he ever been pulled over and let off? 2) How much is he going to bank on the chip stocks ge bought after Nancy helped get that subsidy bill passed? 3) I worked with a guy who got a DUI. When he had his interview he admitted he had a problem. The counseling agency finally decided that he no longer had a problem until after they had drained his bank account from +30K to zero. Thus was in the late 80s.
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