Posted on 07/07/2014 11:41:11 AM PDT by jazusamo
Back in the heyday of the British Empire, a man from one of the colonies addressed a London audience.
"Please do not do any more good in my country," he said. "We have suffered too much already from all the good that you have done."
That is essentially the message of an outstanding new book by Jason Riley about blacks in America. Its title is "Please Stop Helping Us." Its theme is that many policies designed to help blacks are in fact harmful, sometimes devastatingly so. These counterproductive policies range from minimum wage laws to "affirmative action" quotas.
This book untangles the controversies, the confusions, and the irresponsible rhetoric in which issues involving minimum wage laws are usually discussed. As someone who has followed minimum wage controversies for decades, I must say that I have never seen the subject explained more clearly or more convincingly.
Black teenage unemployment rates ranging from 20 to 50 percent have been so common over the past 60 years that many people are unaware that this was not true before there were minimum wage laws, or even during years when inflation rendered minimum wage laws ineffective, as in the late 1940s.
Pricing young people out of work deprives them not only of income but also of work experience, which can be even more valuable. Pricing young people out of legal work, when illegal work is always available, is just asking for trouble. So is having large numbers of idle young males hanging out together on the streets.
When it comes to affirmative action, Jason Riley asks the key question: "Do racial preferences work? What is the track record?" Like many other well-meaning and nice-sounding policies, affirmative action cannot survive factual scrutiny.
(Excerpt) Read more at creators.com ...
As long as the Democrat party is being helped, everyone else can go straight to you-know-where.
The report from Chicago this long holiday weekend was at least 5 dead. It might have been as high as 13.
As Thomas Sowell has also said, the black family survived slavery, discrimination, and Jim Crow. But not the Great Society.
Nice.
Funny thing is that as much as I dislike Obama's policies I really like the way he fathers' his children - - can't be easy raising kids when every movement's noted, but our First Family has done it. I'm proud of them that way... probably similar to how some democrats liked Barbra Bush...
“Funny thing is that as much as I dislike Obama’s policies I really like the way he fathers’ his children”
What do you really know about how he fathers his children?
Affirmative action results:
Obama
Colin Powell
Jackson-Lee
Waters
Sharpton
just to name a few.
The Obama kids have three dads, Obama, Moochelle and Valerie Jarrett.
Thanks for that jaz. Going to pick up that book ASAP. Sounds like a great read.
Ditto that, Dr. Sowell’s recommendation is good enough for me.
and Mussolini got the trains to run on time. Big deal. He ruins our country, drives it into the ground, we’re all in danger because of his illegal acts, but he’s a good father to the girls he’s spent $44 MILLION sending around the world. I’m not proud of him!!!!
Trust me, I’m NOT a fan of Obama...
I understand that, I was just saying.....
I know what you mean. He treats his kids like they’re human and the citizens worse than his dog.
“Just an impression... when you see Obama with his children ... their love for him seems genuine ... rings true.”
At least he appears to be a better dad than the miserable carousing deadbeat SOB who spawned and then abandoned him shortly after birth.
I’m not so sure. He’s raising his daughters to have an imperialist attitude. The kind of example he sets by taking lavish vacations all over the world, spending more on a single vacation than the annual budget of many towns... and not just one lavish vacation per year, but several... the girls are being raised to be privileged, out-of-touch, and spoiled.
In a few more years, we may see them spouting off about how they just tried to care about money, but they can’t.
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