Reply To: Rioting in London/Urban living conditions

[Ben Yahr]

Seriously Jason, turn off Fox News.  There have been no riots in Wisconsin come even close to fitting your “pattern”.

 

I’m also a bit confused by the original post: Sure, if you were to relocate people with few prospects for jobs or future prosperity from dense urban cores to the suburbs, that would indeed reduce the prospects of riots similar to the types seen in London.  But that idea is unbelievably wrong on some many levels.

 

A question to all- what sort of work do you expect the unemployed to find?  This is a huge problem in Europe, and obviously growing in the US.  There are no jobs. 

 

Until this is addressed meaningfully, no amount of urban planning, increased law enforcement, “immigration reform”, austerity measures, or tax reductions is going to do a bit of good in reducing discontent; and the possibility of people expressing their discontent violently.