Jackson Jambalaya

If the baby-daddy actually got a job and the baby mama stayed home and raised the kids, outside childcare is not needed. I double dare this comment to be published.

Well Duh...When un-wed mothers have babies & society pays moms to stay home with them what do you expect??? Remember when you feed the house cat it don't hunt mice no mo...

Mississippi has the nation’s worst economy because Mississippians are lazy, selfish, and stupid.

How is it possible for an adult, able bodied person to not "participate" in the work force? Since I became an adult I've always had to work. I needed things like food, clothes, and a place to live. I also enjoyed luxuries such as electricity and running water. I wasn't able to have any of these without working. What was I doing wrong? Was there a way for me to have the necessities and some luxuries without working? I must have been an complete idiot to waste my time going to a job I didn't particularly enjoy for wages that seemed inadequate when all I had to do was "not participate in the work force" and still have my needs met.
It seems that our "safety net" of entitlements has made it possible to withdraw from the workforce. I believe our safety net has become a much too comfortable security blanket and should be trimmed back. We don't need more benefits like access to child care, we need people to take responsibility for their lives. Most people don't always enjoy their work or think that their pay is sufficient. But in the past they had to work or go hungry. Now, they seem to have other options. They either have some very generous friends and family who are supporting them (doubtful) or they are being taken care of by the tax dollars of the ever shrinking number of people who still work. As a working taxpayer, I resent it.

"Childcare" has and always has been the province of the parents. Communist Crawford is at it again because it serves the communist media narrative that "government" should do it for you, and if you complain - you will be removed altogether.

9:14 am Even my boomer generation often needed two incomes in a house to make ends meet when they started out in the job market. And, you seem to have no clue that not all working fathers make enough money or have good health coverage (which usually doesn't start until 6 months +) if you employer provides it.
There is no substitute for a mother. Even a good, hired caretaker doesn't have the same invested interest in your child and there are lots of studies of the importance of bonding with a parent. But you need to first find out what childcare cost is these days. Start with that. Find the cheapest child care you can if you don't have a grandmother or unemployed relative available.
You also don't seem to know that not all women can afford an ob-gyn to get a prescription the birth control pill or afford to have an IUD inserted and regular checked. Some women have bad reactions to both those forms of birth control. Some women get raped. Some women are foolish enough to believe the guy really loves her. You don't seem ever to worry about the father and we sure don't require much in forcing a Mississippi father, even with money to pay his fair share. Hiding income is so very easy here.
The other methods are less reliable so "accidents" happen and a baby is conceived.
If you get TIME magazine you'll see a black woman from Jackson on the cover. You can read how she is helping single mothers get off welfare. It's actually very cost effective and just needs enough willing donors.
Some women and men are really not capable of holding a job. You would not hire them. Their children may or may not be perfectly normal and capable of achieving a good life for themselves. Their odds are not great if they can't get to school or become disabled from a lack of adequate food or medical care.
We don't enforce laws against truancy to try to keep kids in school or really do much of anything about home schooling. It's awfully easy to pass any test if you know what will be asked and just as easy not to ever understand why the question mattered or it's relevance. Not all parents are good teachers.
You hate crime? You hate people that aren't fit to work? Well, they started out as children with an almost blank slate.
You love babies until they grow up into someone you don't like and you haven't bother to find out why they turned out so badly.
You imagine that those on assistance are doing well. I suggest you look at the actual amounts those on welfare get and if you've got guts, try to live on that each month. I won't ask you to pay your house note or rent...just utilities and water and groceries and clothing and either gas or $5 minimum for transportation. You'll need money for stamps and envelopes and pens to pay bills if you can't qualify for a credit card. You child will need baby formula and diapers and later lunch money and supplies for school.
I could go on, but instead of buying into nonsense try thinking things through by putting yourself in their place .Try volunteering to help the poor in a way that gives you a chance to know the people you are helping instead of just donating goods or money.
And the irony is that it costs the poor more to buy furniture and clothing and one reason is that what they can afford or get used doesn't last and on time, they pay far more than the value in the end.

Crawford's motto is "It takes a government village."

Crawford and many Democrats maintain kids are wards of the "Communiy", that is, the State or Central Planning. Children are easier to bend into servitude if parents do not interfere. Hence Democrats and statist bureaucrats attack the traditional family. With Elon Musk's help as Czar of Beheading Unnecessary Bureaucrats, perhaps Trump can drain a vast swath of the miasmic DC Swamp.

Crawford could be standing in an Amazon rain forest and think he was smack in the middle of the Sahara desert.
Perceptive he ain't.

What a load of bull, and text.

We have the most single moms with no involved father in the country . Why? We have the highest per capital percentage of the demographic that is disproportionately the highest in that situation. Housing projects in the Delta and Jackson are baby factories. Then the babies end up just like the single mom that doesn’t work and the dad that isn’t involved and also might not work. This isn’t rocket surgery. Name something we are last or nearly last in, name the demographic that disproportionately lags in that statistic, then consider that we have the highest per capita percentage of that demographic. It’s past time for that demographic to take a hard look in the mirror and do better

I challenge Crawford, Delbert, Delbert's Committee, The State Auditor, radio talking-heads and the House Speaker, individually or collectively, to prove that the 'labor force participation rate' is anything other than fabricated, hoodoo nonsense.

Other than records revealing new and continued claims for Unemployment Insurance (assuming that goes into the magical calculation), what's left:

1) Telephone polling to ask how old you are, are you working or looking for work? Are you institutionalized?

2) Unemployment Insurance claims that were exhausted during the period and assumptions as to whether those people went to work, died, dropped out of the labor market or claim they’re seeking work.

3) Magical guesswork and magical revisions to magical guesswork.

Raise your hand if you have ever been polled for this information? Do you answer your phone and take polls? Name somebody who has ever been polled. Raise your hand if you have any idea which federal or state agency might conduct such telephone polls. The State does not conduct such polls. Who does?

Not only do we NOT know how many Mississippians are in the work force, if we did, we would not know how many are working and how many of them are looking for work. And the work force is supposedly a combination of those two.


The federal government pencil-pushers tell us the Labor Force Participation rate is calculated by “dividing the number of working-age citizens (16 to infinity) actively seeking employment or currently working divided by the total number of work-eligible citizens multiplied by 100”.


Digest that definition. Then imagine how the government can possibly determine those numbers. They can’t. Nowhere in the calculations is there mention of people who are retired, those who are unable to work due to physical or mental limitations, those who claim they can’t arrange daycare, those who have no transportation, those who are happy sitting on porches and those who work for cash and pay no taxes.

When Delbert’s committee realizes there is no scientific method of measuring the variables, they’ll be left with magical guesswork, speculation, illegitimate polling of imaginary people, use of old census data and the hoodoo of monthly revisions. But the committee will have met, and Salter and Crawford can write another article.

They have way more childcare access today than when my working parents were grinding out 5 days a week in the 60s and 70s, yet that generation somehow found a way and didn't whine about it, either.

Yep 10:32, that was an accurate snapshot of the Mississippi Delta.

No reasonable person can argue that region as a whole, doesn't have a negative impact on any Mississippi statistic.

Question: After so many years in office ...why hasn't Bennie done anything about poverty in his district.

Answer: He's making a shit load of money,
Plus, a couple of Bolton "fish fries" twice a year is all it takes for many of his
constituents to keep sending him back to DC.

Bill, like most liberals, believes this is society’s fault.
Personal responsibility and self- reliance is no where to be found.

Lunch money?

"Question: After so many years in office ...why hasn't Bennie done anything about poverty in his district."

A: Because doing something about poverty requires educating and instilling responsibility, and people who are responsible and educated don't generally vote for folks like Bennie.

It is mid-October. The session starts in 10 weeks. When is the Deliberator going to hold its first meeting so everyone can say how happy they are on a government committee? And photo-ops galore.

I’m no liberal but low wages would not motivate me to want to work, you don’t always get want you want but you always get what you pay for

What we need in this country is another depression. Then, people will learn to work or die.

Since 1964 when LBL made his promise of having people vote Democrat for the next fifty or 100 years, Democrats have used programs, crime and chaos to take over and destroy cities and states…with the goal of making said cities like Jackson into a one-party city…and states like California into a one-party state.

After hearing this here on JJ for some time and via a 7/5/23 Washington Times Opinion re Jackson, Elon Musk is now telling us the Democrats goal is a one-party country.

When you hear opinions from white liberals, remember that Malcom X said “he’s the most dangerous thing in the Western Hemisphere.

Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. Mathew 7:15

"If you get TIME magazine you'll see a black woman from Jackson on the cover. You can read how she is helping single mothers get off welfare. It's actually very cost effective and just needs enough willing donors."

If we can only get enough of other people's money. I wonder where I have heard this before?

The Great Society ain’t so great after all….. is it?

If you won't work, you won't eat, ought to be.

I thought this was about the labor force rate. Nobody here to defend it or justify the false figures?

But we can post about Bennie, the Delta, the Great Society, single moms and fish frys. And we going to pay Delbert committee members lunch every day for five weeks. Plus gas money to meet.

What low wages? I ran wage and benefits surveys in this labor market for at least 25 years. It's a myth (perped by you people who don't want to work) that this area pays low wages. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Sometimes I wonder if I would be better off living off the government. I already pay taxes for it. If you can’t beat them then join them

Don’t ask what you can do for your country ask what your government can do for you. Maybe I should stop working

Ouch.....but kind of true.

Out of touch old farts (me included) who have time to check and comment on blogs at work, but love to step on those who are scraping by. You have no clue how a great portion of this state is just white-knuckled holding on.

Sidenote: I love how you won't see any talk about Trey and his road welfare projects here. Ill-spent funds from our Republican leadership doesn't push ads I guess.

It's coming. Don't worry.

Awesome KF! We thought the Lamars had something on you.