Absolutely not, “stay out” was a poorly worded phrase, I was thinking along the lines of basically pay them to stay unemployed, play video games, have a good time, etc. and give them a good home in exchange for not engaging in criminal behavior.

Making lots of money and having no responsibilities.

Roland, Maryland, the loop around JHU, areas around Montabello, Harford, and Morgan. All with plenty of sidewalks. But I’m left choosing between weaving through joggers like an Olympic slalom, or riding in traffic and becoming another ghost bike.

> The cost of the integration into the broader economy and society of Baltimore of these kids is far too high relative to their expected lifetime productivity and sociability. Instead, we should pay them to stay out, and let the rest of us create a future here.

Am I reading this right? Are you literally advocating for segregation lol, and using stereotyping to help do it. Please tell me I misinterpreted your comment.

It just means a standard liberal lol. These people are describing the most basic liberal Democrat worldview

Dude comparing death tolls of economic systems is not the argument you’d wanna take here. There are a million criticisms of 20th century communist states, but the amount of death and misery caused by capitalist states in that time (and what continues today) dwarfs those by an insane margin.

And honestly, none of this matters bc there is barely a Left in the US, and even the most left-leaning politicians are lukewarm social democrats. And I personally do like Bernie a lot, I think he’s a decent person, but if he’s the left wind of acceptable discourse, then I don’t really think people have the right to be complaining about the dangers of the “progressive US left” or whatever lol

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One in five adults in the United States have a literacy level at or below level 1 of the PIAAC literacy proficiency levels. People at those levels can be considered, for all intents and purposes, illiterate. That number is one in three Baltimoreans. At the same time, the average spending per student in Baltimore is $21,000, an incredibly high number.

Many of these kids and now adults have no home life promoting the value of education, are mentally delayed and stunted due to poor pregnancy and childhood health conditions, have poor impulse and behavioral control, but they innately understand from a young age that they will likely never have any social or economic mobility that will allow them to live a meaningfully better life than their parents.

There is likely no help or recourse for these children or their children or anything else. There’s nothing to be done because nothing can be done. No intervention, no matter how comprehensive, intense, or well-targeted, will meaningfully improve outcomes because these children have reached their full potential.

Low literacy and behavioral issues lead to increased prevalence of criminal activity and other associated antisocial behavior. This costs the city of Baltimore billions of dollars a year in economic costs, due to the fact that it takes a person with a lot of grit, determination, and relatively high tolerance of risk to move here, be economically productive, and raise a family, creating a high barrier for the best and brightest (even with Johns Hopkins). This city is relatively will-integrated and deeply affordable compared to the rest of the East Coast. It should be booming and rapidly growing, but it isn’t.

Well what is to be done if education is irreformable and the kids will never amount to much? Simply put, the city/state/federal government should simply pay them to stay out of society, live comfortably, and avoid interaction with the rest of us. The cost of the integration into the broader economy and society of Baltimore of these kids is far too high relative to their expected lifetime productivity and sociability. Instead, we should pay them to stay out, and let the rest of us create a future here.

https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/measure.asp?section=1&sub_section=3

https://map.barbarabush.org/map/

https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/baltimore-city-schools-spending-per-student-2022-enrollment-performance-kirwan-new-york-boston-washington

Where are the “Mayor” CEO and the School Board they ALL failed the students

We're on the fast track to Fury Road over here!

He doesn't do so directly because it would have cost him votes but his supporters, at least the ones that are vocal on social media, are very much in favor of dismantling capitalism as an economic model. Bernie leaves in little dog whistles in his speeches though to encourage them.

I'm not a fan of unfettered and under-regulated capitalism but what I hear from the left sometimes truly scares me. As if they haven't ever learned about the millions dead in the Soviet Union or Communist China in school. I'm fine with "Democratic Socialism" if you can make it work alongside regulated capitalist markets, but some folks don't seem to care that much about the "democratic" aspect of it.

Baltimore City Schools CEO Sonja Santelises is bringing home nearly half a mil a year in total comp.

The most popular progressive politician (Bernie) doesn't call for the end of capitalism or abolition of police. This sounds like a boogeyman

How? I nearly got hit by three cars making left turns during my morning commute. I was in a protected bike lane and had the green light each time.

Drivers that don’t pay attention are a pain in the ass and a major safety hazard.

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Thanks, my experience has been the Cathedral/Maryland bike lane especially has been much clearer recently than a few months ago!

He sounds qualified to run for mayor!

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And the bigger point is that a city government has no role in determining macroeconomic systems. Schools, police, transportation, garbage collection, and other basic services...that's what a city government actually does.

you do not gotta do that lol

There is absolutely no way BGE is following through on this requirement. Once BGE comes through the roads are left in a disastrous state. Their “repairs” are the just incredible bad. Mixing asphalt and cement does not work. Then maybe paving half a road in the end. They just leave our city streets looking horrible.