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In a Third World country, corruption is a way of life
Posted by Raven on December 14th, 2006
They laugh at him. They call him a racist and a bigot. Jeb Bush called him a “nut”…But Tom Tancredo knows what he’s talking about. He was going to go to Miami to give a speech about his “Third World Country” comments and the controversy surrounding that…but the good people of Miami decided death threats were called for.
My concern here is that because of the generous treatment of Cuban exiles and refugees, Florida and Miami have become magnets for illegal aliens fleeing dozens of countries for purely economic reasons. Thousands also come to engage in criminal activities, and Florida taxpayers in 2004 were hit with a bill of over $120 million for the cost of incarcerating illegal alien criminals. The total taxpayer cost of social services provided to illegal immigrants in Florida in 2005—in public schools, hospital emergency rooms, and law enforcement—was estimated at over one billion dollars.
Just pocket change right??
The high crime rate in Miami is a major factor driving native-born residents out of the city.
* In 2003, violent crimes in Miami were 3.14 times the national rate and triple the rate of some larger cities like Denver.
* The murder rate in 2003 was 2.53 times the national rate and double the rate of another large city in the region, Charlotte-Mecklenburg.
* In 1999, 26% of all youth arrested aged 15 to 26 in Miami tested positive for cocaine.
* Greater Miami’s cocaine-based emergency room admissions are three times the national average.
* The good news is Miami no longer has the highest crime rate in the U.S.—it is improved to be only #3. Perhaps the mayor will declare a holiday.
* Last month the Palm Beach Post reported that the U.S. Justice Department calls South Florida the “public corruption capital of the nation,” outranking New York City, Detroit, and Los Angeles. In the ten year period 1996-2005, 576 individuals were prosecuted on public corruption charges in South Florida.
Yes, I know, there has always been some corruption in every large city and in many small towns as well. The difference is this. In a Third World country, corruption is a way of life, it is accepted, it is routine way of doing business. Mexico has its “mordida” and Russia has a violent mafia and so forth. In America by contrast, it is a scandal and someone is thrown out of office. So, I ask you: Is corruption becoming a way of life in Miami?
Read the rest of this. Miami is just one city. Florida is one state. Think about these numbers and facts on a national basis. And yes, Miami is a third world country from what I hear. True Americans living there tell me it’s not what it once was…it’s not what is was even 10 years ago.
December 16th, 2006 at 11:06 am
“In a Third World country, corruption is a way of life”
Memphis just had two city council members arrested for corruption … that’s added to three former state senators, a county commissioner, a former city school board member … all from Memphis.