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Underserved?

OK, let's go with that. But who's underserving them?

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A commercial came on recently showing a young black girl in school being inspired by a book her teacher was reading to her class about lemons. The ad then shows the young lady growing up from painting her room lemon yellow all the way up to opening her own lemon inspired food business.

This is all well and good, but one key word that was embedded in the commercial (I think it was a bank commercial) was “underserved”.

Note: I couldn’t for the life of me find this ad so I can’t link it here. If I do find it I’ll update this article.

Update: Here is the commercial


This is absolutely one of the most disingenuous terms we’ve heard from the propagandists who love their pigeon-hole catchall softball descriptions for horrific societal issues for quite some time.

For a few years now cities wherever impoverished minorities live (and are ironically the majority) are termed “the underserved community”. Leftist dogmatists love to toss out these rebranded identifiers as if it’s some sort of a corporate marketing scheme (gee maybe it really is) with the hope that it becomes an embedded part of the lexicon like everything else they’ve slipped into the language since the unfortunate dawn of political correctness.

Leftists also want everyone to think that this equates the “underserved” as being the hapless, blameless victims of society’s failure (meaning everyone on the so-called right) to address their issues.


So what exactly does “underserved” mean?

Merriam-Webster defines underserved as “provided with inadequate service”

The Free Dictionary defines it as “those whose needs are not sufficiently served: underserved children of the ghetto”

The Cambridge English Dictionary says it’s “used to describe a place, market, etc. where fewer goods or services are available than there should be”

Well, in reality, it usually refers to urban areas that have the worst of everything as The Free Dictionary points toward by using the word ghetto in its definition.

The people that this group encompasses here are those who live in poverty in substandard housing, go to terrible schools, have no opportunities for jobs, never mind any shot at a career or starting their own businesses, and all of this is because of society’s failure (again meaning Republicans) to serve their needs.

But who’s really at fault here?


Let’s focus on funding. 

There are scads of federal and state programs that pour trillions of dollars into education and infrastructure into these cities, but for some reason, these cities can’t seem to dig themselves out of the Mariana Trench sized holes they’re in.

Mariana Trench: The Deepest Place On Earth
That’s 6.8568311 miles for all of us non-metric folks

Mayors, city councils, and school board members run on the premise and promise of a better future and solving these problems, yet year after year, decade after decade nothing gets solved and the problems (mainly now termed as “challenges”) look like they’re getting worse.

Crime, unemployment, infant mortality, astronomical school dropout rates, poverty, and homelessness seem to soar to new highs each year in these cities that get all this money and the population is still termed as “underserved”.

So who is undeserving these people? 
It sure isn’t America First conservatives…


According to Ballotpedia Democrats are mayors of 62 out of the country’s 100 largest cities:

So if Democrats, who typically run on promises to address and fix all these problems run all these cities, why are things getting worse?

And the larger question:

Who’s providing the services that seem to make these folks perpetually “underserved”?

This ties in with the old Democratic way of doing everything, create problems and then “fix’ them. Or more accurately, promise to fix them.

This also ties in with Einstein’s definition of insanity (even though insanity applies here, there’s more nefarious reasons why):

Einstein - Definition of Insanity - Onhike

Year after year, decade after decade, politician after politician gets elected on platforms that promise to solve all these problems, yet nothing changes and things actually get worse.

The biggest US cities all have Democrats for mayors and all of them are failing miserably.

From Forbes here’s the US cities with the most homeless

The U.S. Cities With The Most Homeless People

Our “top ten” largest city mayors with the highest homeless populations:

Mayor of New York City - Wikipedia
#1 A - Mayor of New York NY - Eric Adams - D 2022 -
New York City mayor Bill de Blasio eats burger to encourage vaccination  uptake | US News | Sky News
#1 B - Let’s not forget Bill de Blasio - D former mayor of NYC 2014 - 2021
Mayor of Los Angeles - Wikipedia
#2 - Mayor of Los Angeles CA - Eric Garcetti - D 2013-
Auburn man charged with threatening to kill Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan |  Kent Reporter
#3 - Mayor of Seattle WA - Jenny Durkan - D - 2017 -
Mayor of San Jose - Wikipedia
#4 - Mayor of San Jose CA- Sam Liccardo - D 2007 -
Oakland Mayor Stands By 'Fair Warning' Of Impending ICE Operation : The  Two-Way : NPR
#5 - Mayor of Oakland CA - Libby Schaaf - D 2015 -
San Francisco Mayor Defends Going Maskless at Club
#6 - Mayor of San Francisco CA - London Breed - D 2018 -
About Todd Gloria | City of San Diego Official Website
#7 - Mayor of San Diego CA - Todd Gloria - D - 2020 -
Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego promises to lead the way on police reform
#8 - Mayor of San Diego CA - Kate Gallego - D 2019 -
Miguel Pulido returns to lead Santa Ana as potential charges linger - Los  Angeles Times
#9 - Mayor of Santa Ana CA - Vicente Sarmiento - D - 2020 -
Muriel Bowser, D.C. mayor, says put $11M back in to hire more cops -  Washington Times
#10 - Mayor of Washington DC - Muriel Bowser - D - 2015 -

An out of all of these cities, 7 of them are in California…


So the feel good commercial referenced above is how leftists want everyone to believe that there’s some sort of a divine spark (in the schools of all ironies) in the “underserved” communities that will lead to the happiest of endings.

But the reality is we’re seeing is the exact opposite for most inner city kids. They’re not turning lemons into lemonade or lemon cupcakes.


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