Toy Soldiers

WOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW........all i could say is WOOOOOWWWWWWW! Foot soldiers...the ones that do the actual corner selling and killing and the risking of their lives (which life is priceless to begin with) only makes as little as three dollars and thirty cent an hour......WAYYY, WAYYY LESS THEN MINIMUM WAGE! I mean why not get a job at Wendys or McDonalds to get at least $7.25 an hour and won't have to worry about looking over your shoulder every five minutes in fear of someone coming to take your life for your "drug" territory or the cops to come and lock you up for most of your life on drug charges (:().

It's sad that they get paid that much but the ones at the top who barely does anything but sit back and collect...make the most money. Its also sad that they are recruiting teens so young to come and risk their lives for such a life style. Especially for J.T. who was a college graduate himself. I mean even though he live the life style that he does, he should have at least tried to stair the younger ones in the right direction...give them a better chance at life...and opportunity, you know tell them to go to college, as he had done, and make something of themselves... (but I guess he thought, if he tell the youngsters to make better choices, and stay away from the drugs, who would distribute his product (:()...sad).

Finally I was most amazed at how they had to pay to be foot soldiers. I mean what would possess any one to think that making three thirty an hour, plus paying to work was a good thing??? I mean the life of a foot soldier was not at all glamorous...I mean, they were posting up in smelly, pissy hallways twenty four hours a day seven days a week, not riding around in fancy cars and big apartments with king sized beds, and silk sheets.

All in all, unfortunately since this survey that Venkatesh conducted nothing has changed in the drug game...the pay may be a little higher, but the foot soldiers, who are actually on the streets, are still making less then the top dealers who just sit back and collect. Hopefully one day this cycle will end! It has too...or else there is no future....(:()!