(Natural News) Perhaps one of the most bizarre job-creation schemes ever devised is about to be put in place by far-Left ideologues in California’s capital city of Sacramento.
As reported by Fox40, the city council has just approved a program called “Advance Peace” in which taxpayer funds will be utilized to pay criminals and gang members not to kill one another.
The report noted the impulsiveness of the decision to implement such a program:
After a violent weekend of suspected gang-related shootings, Tuesday the Sacramento City Council took action to reduce the bloodshed.
It approved a controversial program called Advance Peace, which offers cash stipends to gang members who remain peaceful.
The program is already in use in Richmond and is also being considered in Stockton. Some believe [sic] it can help curve violent crime.
The program is the brainchild of Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, who actually pushed a vote on it two weeks early because of one weekend’s worth of violence (are you now asking yourself why this brilliant idea has yet to occur to the mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel?).
