The world was a better place when I didn't have to lock my door and my mother wasn't afraid to allow me to walk two miles to the movie theater downtown when I was 9. She taught me how to cross a street. She taught me that the police were my friend and I shouldn't take things from strangers and to never get in their car. When I got older, she told me I shouldn't smoke but if I did, I should smoke my own and never take a cigarette from anyone. PERIOD. She told me I shouldn't drink liquor but if I went to a party, I should never let what I was drinking or eating out of my hand before I was done. She recognized that you can tell your children what is right and even lead by example but you can't always stop them from doing something dangerous so you have to include instructions on how to mitigate danger. You don't stick your head in the sand and pretend bad things don't happen and you don't try to terrify the children into obeying you. Sadly, today children are being terrorized into obeying and I don't think that bodes well for our future as a Republic.
So, that's the kind of people who live in public housing. My neighborhood was tighter than a prison yard. Every adult was a warden and we did what they said.. That isn't the way it works in big cities. Public housing is now full of victims instead of young people trying to move up in the world. Victims have a completely different outlook on life. They are takers and have no pride.
