Webmaster's Views

What I learned about gangs setting up this website:

The factual emergence of a street gang was not written to make heroes of those involved. But, to try to understand what caused the formation of these social systems and why they turned out as they did.

In the beginning, it was matter of survival. Clustered together in crowded inner city housing, with no encouragement for a better life than they were witnessing around them. These young men looked at what they had and fought for it.

Conclusion:

Instead of condemning gangs for their actions, maybe society should look to itself for allowing the conditions to exist in which a group of people find it necessary to fight and kill for their survival.

Our gift to them has been to let the poor from other countries move in and try to take over what little our poor have. By doing this we encourage hate and violence. And, we waste the talent of our youth who are deprived of the bare essentials, have no incentive for education, and a future of death or crime.

Rewarding illegals in this country and not helping America's poor, feeling no compassion for the young that are living in slums and ghettos, and telling Americans they are stupid and lazy and unwilling to work hard - just hiring immigrants or exporting jobs overseas will not solve America's problems.

In the 40's, 50's, and 60's, a young man with an 8th grade education could look forward to a job in industry. Now you have to know someone, who knows someone, to get the job on the lowest step of the ladder. Until Americans wake up and start looking out for their own - even the most humble of us - do not judge the actions of others.

The Information Technology workers are going through their own struggle. Told during the Reagan years to seek training in the computer related fields, we are now one of the professions with the highest unemployment rates. Our politicians that always shout "America First," are now putting "American Citizens Last," by getting paid off by foreign companies to allow IT jobs to be outsourced where the wages are cheaper. Or bring foreign workers into the country to take American jobs. When you have a government that does not care about it's middle and working class people, you will create an environment where people will band together for survival - like the gangs of Chicago.

In a New York September 24, 2003 article, Bush showed a complete disregard for the plight of American workers, both Engineering and IT. It is a well known fact that for the past three years jobs for technology workers have steadily declined. Nothing has been done to slow the outsourcing of jobs and importation of foreign workers. The implication that American workers are substandard to foreign workers by Bush is an insult to the American people he represents. For $10,000 each, Bush again sold out the IT workers once again by announcing to an eight-member Indian delegation in Jackson, Mississippi that "He is opposed to the efforts to scrap the programme, under which thousands of Indian IT experts have been brought to the United States." The programme in question is the H-1B visa program that allows 195,000 temporary foreign workers into the United States each year. At the end of September, the hiring cap will drop down to 65,000 per year if no further action is taken. Bush stated He wants the cap to remain at 195,000, even though their are thousands of American IT workers out of work.

Bush supported and signed a budget bill which had appended to it an increase in the number of H1-B visa permits (from 65,000) to 105,000 per year. This was like spitting in the faces of the American IT and Engineering industry which has record layoffs. Bush continues to show the poor, working, and middleclass Americans that he does not care whether they can find decent employment. India cheered at Bush's bill as many more Americans lost even more hope.

Bush supports amnesty for illegals stating that they are willing to work at jobs Americans refuse to work. At the same time, the Republican Party vetoed a 13 week extension in unemployment benefits for the unemployed, many of whom lost their jobs to outsourcing, something Bush supports.

Bush has proven that he doesn't care about the plight of the American middleclass. Do you really think that he cares about what his support for illegal immigrants does to spur gang violence? I will let you come to your own conclusions!

        "Do not follow
         where the path may lead
         go instead where there is no path
         and leave a trail."

         Ralph Waldo Emerson