Too Bad President Obama Didn't Talk With Uncle Oscar

A guy, we'll call Uncle Oscar, promised his troubled nephew--the one that's been a problem child from day one--that if he toed the line, he'd buy him a new car.  This nephew of his has always been a "problem child." As a young kid, he would bully the other kindergartners out of their candy; in the fourth grade, he stole his teacher's purse; at age 14 he robbed an elderly man, and last year, he broke into three homes in the neighborhood. But despite his awful behavior, he's been lucky. He keeps getting slapped on the wrist for his behavior--he's never even been to a youth detention center. Uncle Oscar, like everyone else in the family felt that it was just a matter of time before this kid's actions would either land him in prison, cause serious harm to someone, or worse.

So, Uncle Oscar, believing that he had a way to change the boy, offered his nephew an incentive that most everyone thought was not only unbelievably generous, but unwise.  Uncle Oscar told his nephew "If you'll behave yourself, I'll give you the keys to a new car".  A few weeks passed and Uncle Oscar learned that his nephew hadn't been behaving.  He joined a gang, hadn't been to school