[Mrs. Don-o]

In Daniel Patrick Moynihan's day, the illegitimacy (non-marital childbearing) rate in the African American community was one-out-of-four, which Mloynihan called unprecedented, pathological, disastrous, all of which were true.

Now it's one-out-of-four in the white community; Latinos two-out-of-three, Blacks, three-out-of-four.

What was disastrous then, is, today, catastrophic.

[kearnyirish2]

It is catastrophic for taxpayers (individual & corporate) who are required to feed, clothe, house, and school the “golden ticket welfare bastards”, but a windfall for the “poverty sector” (cops, teachers, social workers, bodegas, Section 8 landlords, etc.) that receive that redistributed income...