For the record, I grew up about 18 miles west of Detroit.

I am just reading a book about Israel (Start Up Nation) and live in China. Here we have two people who have done two things.

1. Israel has created a world class technology sector (all by themselves) even though they are surrounded by hostile neighbors, and half of the population does not work (Arabs/ Orthodox Jews).

2. China has taken a country that was starving at the end of the 50s and early 60s and tricked enough foreign investors to put a KFC/ McDonalds in every single city. (I live in Changsha and there are aboug 10KFCs here alone. Packed every day.)

Compare this to what black people have done in almost any environment.

1. You have about 40 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and at least 10 of them have HIV rates that are over 25% of the adult population (including South Africa). Everything that needs to be said about HIV can be fit onto the back of one index card, and they are too stupid to even retain that much information.

2. You have black people in Detroit who have single-handedly destroyed a city. A functioning city. There is not one single grocery store open in the city of Detroit, and you can buy houses for $5,000. The school district is in receivership and the city is headed that way, too.

3. Haiti. They have been independent for 200 years, and they just can’t get their shit together for any reason.

4. Zimbabwe. A country that was 95%+ black, and they were self sufficient in food. (Even though the white farmers grew the food.) And yet, as soon as the black government took things over, the country was starving and the currency so debased that they had to start using US$

It is no exaggeration to say that not only can black people seem to not manage ANYTHING, but that if there is something that is functioning– it will be destroyed as soon as they come and put their hands on it.

It just might be that black people are inherently sorry and there is nothing anyone can do about that. The evidence sure points that way.

Unemployment will only get worst over time as computers/machines become more intelligent and cheap educated labor becomes more available in foreign countries. Unless Americans are willing to take huge pay cuts then no corporation is going to make investments here when you can do so elsewhere without penalty. Americans have shown no willingness to punish corporations for hiring overseas. Cheap prices rule the day. (cheap prices over “America First”).

African Americans are just canaries in the mine. The future is very dim for African Americans that don’t have an international mindset or dont understand machines/programming.

If you are concerned, Dr. Watkins, take a look at this solution. If nothing else, I would think your response might be, let me use my influence to see if this is doable. And you Vinny, I pose the same challenge !! Let’s use this great forum to bring an end to our brothers and sisters misery instead of talking pass each other and let’s talk to each other.

Congress and the President can bring an end to this recession in a matter of 30 days. It can be done cleanly and without adding to the deficit by putting money into hands of retiring baby boomers. You just simply have to change how Social Security checks are paid. Let the boomers have partial distribution of their Social Security principal in the amount of $20.000.00 or $40,000.00 dollars, and issue them a monthly check on the remainder of their principal.

Look, let’s say it takes $313,000.00 dollars in principal at 6.9 interest to send me a monthly Social Security check of $1800.00 dollars. So,I say to Social Security, I would like to have a piece of my money up front,say $40,000.00 dollars. Now pay me a monthly check on the remainder, which is in this instance $273,000.00 dollars, which amounts to a monthly check of $1569.00 dollars. That makes this plan ( let’s call it the Davis Plan )deficit neutral. It’s their money, for heavens sake!! Presenting a partial distribution option of your retirement principal is common practice in the private sector.

Yet we allow, the largest payer of pensions, the Social Security Trust Fund, not to do it at a time when it will benefit our economy the most. The impact of allowing partial distributions, which is simply taking down a part of your pension principal and than rolling over the rest to be received monthly would pull, no, jerk this economy out of this recession. It’s the boomers and their kids who are getting hardest hit in this recession anyway. Mr. Obama are you listening?? http://www.sslumpsum.com