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No, the point is the inner city will always be kept poor because of the dependence they have on the bureaucrats which is why bureaucrats continue to buy their votes
The question is very easy to answer and my post above is part of it. Inner city people are used to getting everything provide for them whereas in the suburbs people are used to taking care of themselves and understand personal responsibility and are tired of paying for the "things" the inner city people are getting off the spoils of their labor
What the Federal Govt. has done is create so much dependence that the liberal base has an entitlement mentality. One of these days the silent majority is going to wake up
And one more thing - perhaps if you came to live in the city for a while, you'd learn that people bust their asses here just as hard as they do in the country, if not harder. Remember, I was raised in the country - I've lived both sides.
Why do they have to bust their asses even harder in the city? It's called "competition"...and it's a function of there being a heck of a lot more people there...and you're having to compete with every doggone one of them. In the city, if you don't hustle and make things happen yesterday, your business is going to go tango uniform faster than you can say "unemployment compensation". Why do you think that generally speaking, people from the country talk more slowly, but people from the city talk more quickly? It's not just here in America, but all over the world. I remember that even when I was in the Delta last year, the towns pretty much shut down not long after dark, especially after ten at night. But in the city, it's just getting started! It's not just people partying, either...because in order for people to have somewhere to go, there has to be people working to keep those businesses open!
Don't get me wrong - running a farm is hard, dirty work, and I've got a great deal of respect for those who grew up working the fields...but it's not an all-year thing, and it's not an all-day-every-day thing. All too often in the city, it really is all-day-every-day.
So you need to check at the door your apparent belief that city slickers are somehow lazy and just look for handouts. The vast majority don't...just like the vast majority of those out in the country don't. Religious and cultural mores notwithstanding, people really are the same all over the world, in the city and in the country. It would do you a world of good to learn that.