So my question is this....if the incoming crowd were released....where did they 'really' go? Out in public, or in prisons?
Did lessening the resident situation really fix anything over a 60-year period?
And the one odd factor....up until 1960, we were still on a upward trend. Where would the 'mark' be today....if the clinics been kept open?
I sat and pondered over it.
To be honest, if you had ventured from the Carolinas back in 1825....out to Illinois/Indiana....as a settler, after a single year of living in mid-America, you probably would have said things are way too hot, and way too cold....to live there.
Then as you moved to Colorado in the 1870....you probably said the same thing.
Upon moving to Arizona (Tombstone) in 1900....you would have said the same thing.
If any of this warning BS were true....you'd see scientists at the various universities in mid-America....packing up and trying to get to Oregon or Maine....to survive.
Yet, you see no one really acting worried.
I'm mostly in disagreement about the results.
First, what exactly does 'live comfortably' mean? I think in Idaho...I could live pretty well on $50,000 a year (as long as I didn't have a monthly mortgage payment of $1,200).
A family needing $257,000 in Oregon? Are mom and dad driving a Mercedes each?
This brings to a WaPo story from around 2011....DC/Arlington couple (both in early 50s).....pulling in around $270,000 a year combined, and living paycheck-to-paycheck....unable to really explain how they spent their way through a month.
There's something wrong here....but I can't really put my finger on it.
