I'm sure that everyone has thoughts on why we have so much crime in America and I have my thoughts as well. Maybe many people don't agree with my way of thinking, but I am a senior citizen, a veteran, and I love my country. I will say what I think and if anyone doesn't like it, I could care less.
I think there is so much crime in America because of the lack of education. We spend more money in this country on wars, giving tax breaks to the super rich, and giving foreign aid to countries that hate us. If the U.S. took that money and put it into education, made our schools better, and provided a college education to everyone that wanted to go to college we would see less poverty. More and better jobs would be created in our country, crime would decline like we have never seen before, the economy would be better.
Many crimes in the U.S. are not because people are bad. It is because they are hungry, without a job, and they are desperate. When people become desperate they will do things that they don't want to do, but they need to survive. Nothing breeds crime like a lack of education.
It saddens me to see that our government will give tax breaks to the super rich and multi-billion dollar corporation while we have wide a spread homeless problem in America and one in six children don't know where their next meal is coming from. We need to elect more people like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren that knows what the real problems are.
When we get a top notch education system in this country that supports our teachers, gives our children the chance for a higher education, we will see job growth, less poverty, and less crime. We should not be spending more money on prisons than we are on education. Our government's way of thinking needs to make a 180 degree turn to make this country great again. The good life should be for everyone, not just the top 1%, this is a failure of America. Vote for people that want to spend more on education.
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You've made some interesting points here, Larry. Having an education and the ability to make sensible decisions in life means citizens can make better choices and be better prepared to seek out opportunities for success so that they are never tempted to break laws in order to survive.
ReplyDeleteThere is a separate, but related, type of illegal behavior, which of course you've probably heard of, called "white collar crime." I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts about that topic.
Good blog, Larry.--MTW