point to Ponder: Poverty and Crime

[dogriver]

For years, the so-called experts and authorities have been telling us that unemployment breeds poverty, poverty breeds crime. This pronouncement suggests to us that if you raise the wealth level of the poor, you will (it is implied) solve the prison problem.

I come from a group whose unemployment rate is roughly 80%, I'm told, i.e. blind people. At least in the mid-1990's, simply being blind in this province did not qualify one for disability-based social assistance.

So we have here a group of people with, by any standards, a high unemployment rate, in a province and country which does very little financially to support its disabled population. So why are the prisons not bulging to the bursting point with blind people?

Comments

[kittytech]

Don't you know? Blind people are incapable of committing crimes. I'll never forget the lady in Milwaukee who, with the help of her son, knocked out her husband, dragged him down to the river, and drown him. She got off because she was blind.