There is a lot here to digest. I have to admit I don't understand some of the language. As long as it's not just affirmative action 2.0 I'm in. As long as "access to capital" in white communities does not suffer as a result.
"INCREASE ACCESS TO CAPITAL IN BLACK COMMUNITIES BY ALMOST $500 BILLION"
This money should go to building trade schools and the like.
Ye give these kids an out with a decent job, and dividends will follow. These kids just have no out aside from slanging. Its the Dems who keep them perpetually shackled. No money ever goes into their communities, just siphoned straight to the dem's purse.
Trouble is, in a lot of "black communities", the public elementary and middle schools are not teaching basic reading and arithmetic. It's pretty hard to run a high school vocational program that will prepare students for decent jobs upon graduation, if the incoming students can't read or do basic arithmetic above the first or second grade level. And kids who haven't learned to read well by the time they're about 9-10 have missed the developmental window for ever becoming good readers.
My limited understanding of it, from hearing some others discuss it, is that it's sort of a way to get access to money for starting businesses in inner city areas. I don't think it is exclusively for black people, it just applies to rundown inner city neighborhoods which are majority black by default.
I think it is specifically to address the main complaint about the "opportunity zones" initiative which was that the local community wouldn't have access to capital to take advantage of it and the only hope was maybe big businesses would, since all it is are tax incentives and only those with capital can use it.
It isn't a bad thing for outside business to spring up in poor neighborhoods of course, but it's overall better to turn some of the people living there into small business owners themselves.
I don't know what the right answer is here. I don't like Affirmative Action, which obviously doesn't have any positive outcomes anyways, just discriminating against one group of people to give a leg up to another which is wrong. But something must be done. This country cannot continue to have rundown ghettos in every city, or a group of people who are perpetually stuck in a never-ending cycle of poverty and crime.
While I agree it really should be local governments solving these problems, as long as Democrats are in charge nothing will change, and as the federal government wastes our money on so much garbage anyways, maybe something like this could break the cycle of electing terrible Democrats in cities and have a cascading effect down the road that eliminates the problems contributing to this in the first place. If their one interaction with a Republican is massive success, then maybe they won't listen to idiot Democrats anymore.
https://cdn.donaldjtrump.com/public-files/press_assets/president-trump-platinum-plan-final-version.pdf
There is a lot here to digest. I have to admit I don't understand some of the language. As long as it's not just affirmative action 2.0 I'm in. As long as "access to capital" in white communities does not suffer as a result.
"INCREASE ACCESS TO CAPITAL IN BLACK COMMUNITIES BY ALMOST $500 BILLION"
This money should go to building trade schools and the like.
Ye give these kids an out with a decent job, and dividends will follow. These kids just have no out aside from slanging. Its the Dems who keep them perpetually shackled. No money ever goes into their communities, just siphoned straight to the dem's purse.
Bring back HS vocational programs!
Trouble is, in a lot of "black communities", the public elementary and middle schools are not teaching basic reading and arithmetic. It's pretty hard to run a high school vocational program that will prepare students for decent jobs upon graduation, if the incoming students can't read or do basic arithmetic above the first or second grade level. And kids who haven't learned to read well by the time they're about 9-10 have missed the developmental window for ever becoming good readers.
guess they should hire teachers that can read and write first
You've obviously never been around low income minorities, but I'm sure you mean well. They "shackle" themselves, regardless of who is in power.
Right. It doesn’t mean other communities won’t and aren’t being helped.
My limited understanding of it, from hearing some others discuss it, is that it's sort of a way to get access to money for starting businesses in inner city areas. I don't think it is exclusively for black people, it just applies to rundown inner city neighborhoods which are majority black by default.
I think it is specifically to address the main complaint about the "opportunity zones" initiative which was that the local community wouldn't have access to capital to take advantage of it and the only hope was maybe big businesses would, since all it is are tax incentives and only those with capital can use it.
It isn't a bad thing for outside business to spring up in poor neighborhoods of course, but it's overall better to turn some of the people living there into small business owners themselves.
I don't know what the right answer is here. I don't like Affirmative Action, which obviously doesn't have any positive outcomes anyways, just discriminating against one group of people to give a leg up to another which is wrong. But something must be done. This country cannot continue to have rundown ghettos in every city, or a group of people who are perpetually stuck in a never-ending cycle of poverty and crime.
While I agree it really should be local governments solving these problems, as long as Democrats are in charge nothing will change, and as the federal government wastes our money on so much garbage anyways, maybe something like this could break the cycle of electing terrible Democrats in cities and have a cascading effect down the road that eliminates the problems contributing to this in the first place. If their one interaction with a Republican is massive success, then maybe they won't listen to idiot Democrats anymore.