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To: epicure who wrote (222226)	4/19/2013 12:32:11 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 541342

You are dead right, and I was just going to say that. Are black, latino or asian gangs terrorists? And it is not so much for fun as rage at racism. The blacks have been beaten down for so long they are mad and the kids act it out. I spent my youth dealing with that anger. Which was justified. I had to be careful all the time. <<More dangerous here (in Cal), are gangs of black youths- who are now just killing for fun. We had an off duty paramedic shot in Oakland recently- no reason at all. The number of murders in Oakland and Richmond: My home town, born, raised and graduated from Richmond union high school. It wasn't that bad back them, but we could not have night football games and I had to be careful. I had the top gang in Richmond (white gang) looking for me for a year because I broke up with the gang leaders sister. Shockers was the gang and Ted Costa was the head. I later met him in college and he apologized-lol. They found me once at a girls house and I went out and met them, but they didn't beat me up. <<is staggering. I don't think too many folks are calling for the deaths of all blacks (at least I certainly hope they aren't.) Seems to me, we need to offer young violent men something to do, other than kill people for excitement or "causes" they don't really understand, and which are simply excuses for the violence. You don't see a lot of 60 years olds doing this- it's always younger people. We need to give them something else to be excited about.

To: epicure who wrote (222226)	4/19/2013 12:46:53 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541342

"We need to give them something else to be excited about." Can't they just play their video games? voanews.com

To: epicure who wrote (222226)	4/19/2013 1:08:23 PM
From: Alex MG	Respond to of 541342

" The War Against Youth" ..... In 1984, American breadwinners who were sixty-five and over made ten times as much as those under thirty-five. The year Obama took office, older Americans made almost forty-seven times as much as the younger generation. The practice of not paying young people for their labor has become so ingrained in the everyday practice of American business that we've forgotten how bizarre and recent the development is. In the early 1980s, 3 percent of college grads had had an internship. By 2006, 84 percent had done at least one. The federal government spends $480 billion on Medicare and $68 billion on education. Prescription drugs: $62 billion. Head Start: $8 billion. Across the board, the money flows not to helping the young grow up, but helping the old die comfortably. According to a 2009 Brookings Institution study, "The United States spends 2.4 times as much on the elderly as on children, measured on a per capita basis, with the ratio rising to 7 to 1 if looking just at the federal budget."