Bob Herbert's commentary on Newark's squalor demands a discussion of divided Berlin. People with a common ethnicity, religion and work ethic were divided into socialism and capitalism. Communist East Berlin "cared" about its citizens, assuring that everyone had housing, a job and every unmarried woman could give birth with government help. It became a hell-hole from which productive citizens fled, braving mine fields for the opportunity to apply themselves efficiently into an economic system which didn't care whether they succeeded or failed. Democrats are surprised at the squalor of Newark. They both failed because of inevitable unintended consequences. Socialism creates anti-social behavior in everything it touches. Two types of socialists exist: 1. those who want 55 percent of the people dependent upon them and 45 percent subject to their economic pillage, and: 2. Vladimir Lenin's "useful idiots" who believe socialism can create "social justice" if administered by people without greed, envy or a lust for power. Any group is ultimately the people who comprise it. A city becomes "bad" when it reaches a critical mass of thugs, resulting in a spiral of crime and blight. Knowing this, ignoring the words of Patrick Moynihan is inexcusable. In 1965, he wrote: "From the wild Irish slums of the nineteenth century Eastern seaboard to the riot-torn suburbs of Los Angeles, there is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring a stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any rational expectations about the future — that community asks for and gets chaos. In such a society crime, violence, unrest, unrestrained lashing out at the whole social structure are not only to be expected, they are virtually inevitable."