The Plight of Donny, Tray and Luciano.

The fact that this situation will probably blow up in the administration's face is besides the point since another crisis will be manufactured directly in its heels. And the pub...lic will follow the next bout of foolishness but I want to focus in on just three of the pawns in this charade..... Donny, Tray and Luciano. Here is what one of them said:

"That's why people [are] looting, it's cause they can't get no jobs," said Tray.

John Bonds, a former local gang member, now acts as a bridge between protesters and police. He says the real issue is opportunity.

"They know how to paint, they know how to cut grass, they can clean, they can vacuum, tear down the ones that don't need to be there... give us those jobs, set it up to and we can do," said Bonds.

No jobs, no peace?

"No jobs, no peace, period," said Bonds.

http://news.yahoo.com/ferguson-no-jobs-no-peace-040746683.html

Everyday, I drive roughly 55 miles to my office in the city. Along the way, I pass gardening trucks and cars with signs for single proprietor businesses.... most of them with Haitian or Hispanic surnames attached. Sometimes between the cab of the truck and the bed of the truck there are as much as 8 men. Most of them LEFT the COUNTRY that they grew up in, have family in and so forth to come to this country for an OPPORTUNITY. In the absence of being OFFERED a job in their newly adopted country, they made their own. Some have become quite successful.

This is not a discussion about legal or illegal immigration, this is about initiative, ambition and imagination. Five Observations:

1........Donny, Tray and Luciano..... A job will never "find" you. Sitting around grousing about no jobs and opportunities won't find you a job. You might even have to leave the area known to you in order to achieve opportunities. Many have done it before and continue to do so.

2........You can't threaten to continue to burn down, loot and shoot if someone does not offer you a job. I don't know of any proprietor who will willingly hire someone to menace them daily. having a job requires that a person work within a structured environment.

3......The ability to communicate and dress appropriately for better paying jobs is important. In St. Louis, manufacturing jobs are drying up and new industries and educational requirements are changing as well. Heck, I know you like the big bling ear jewelry, saggy pants and such but if you work during the week you can dress like that at night when you party or go to the movies or just "hang-out".

4. ""They know how to paint, they know how to cut grass, they can clean, they can vacuum, tear down the ones that don't need to be there... give us those jobs, set it up to and we can do," said Bonds."

Average kids do this stuff for neighbors at the age of 16 years old to earn gas and walking around money,

This says a lot about the adults of the town when their biggest aspirations are to get jobs that require no education, not much in the way of skills, and something that they typical homeowner takes care of on their own; or hires the local neighborhood kid to do part time.

5....... This is important, something that many people might miss..... Bonds wants someone to "set it up" so they can have jobs. He has no idea that the only one to "set it up" would be Donny, Tray and Luciano themselves. MEN set things up for themselves. Children wait to be "set up" until they can do it for themselves. They (Donny, Tray and Luciano) have become eternal children, large and angry -----waiting to be fed. You can be poor and outcast but still be proud. There's no pride in a handout and over time it kills the soul." Since that time "We the People" have spent nearly $15T on the Great Society programs, it has devastated a culture and laid to waste our urban centers.

BTW, they issued a threat to Walmart ---- "Walmart better come back to their community or they will loot and burn more stores."

Drugs, violence, looting, gangs, no education, constant problems with the law, problems with temperament. Sheesh, it would be insanity to bend to this mess.

Here are some facts about Ferguson Missouri for those entrepreneurs moved by the plight of Donny, Tray and Luciano.

>The Ferguson crime index is 37% higher than the Missouri average and and the Missouri crime index is 15% higher than the National average.

>The Ferguson violent crime rate is 7% higher than the Missouri average and and the Missouri violent crime rate is 16% higher than the National average.

>The Ferguson property crime rate is 41% higher than the Missouri average and and the Missouri property crime rate is 15% higher than the National average.

>It is rated "very livable", even though the crime rate is high, housing prices are fairly low. AND the educational attainment is either at or better than Missouri as a whole.

>The income per capita in Ferguson is 8.1% less than the Missouri average and 20.5% less than the National average. The median household income in Ferguson is 16.2% less than the Missouri average and 29% less than the National average. The median household income in Ferguson for owner occupied housing is 60.8% greater than the median household income for renter occupied housing in Ferguson.

The poverty level in Ferguson is 13.1% less than the Missouri average and 5.9% less than the National average. The median earnings for males in Ferguson is 46.1% greater than the median earnings for females in Ferguson.

>The cost of living in Ferguson is 11.1% less than the Missouri average. The cost of living in Ferguson is 17% less than the national average.

Anyone willing to relocate and "set up" Donny, Tray and Luciano and their friends in a job?