The War on Poverty Has Been a Colossal Flop
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That depends on your point of view. If you love Big Government, it’s been a tremendous success.
I had the DUTY, lonnnngggg resisted, to go to the Texas State Capitol Complex yesterday. Specifically, I was going to the State Comptroller and the Secretary of State’s offices.
I got the usual bureaucratic run around but while standing around “waiting” I observed that practically ALL these bureaus “clients” were white and practically all the bureaucrats were black or Hispanic with an occasional white person and all them seemed to perform a license plate like perfunctory task and when done they would just stop and stare into space waiting for the next “client” to step forward.
Then, after a half century plus breathing air on this earth it hit me like a ton of bricks, seriously! “What would our society do with all these people if the government didn’t CREATE out of whole cloth some simple little task for them to do at 75 grand each per year? So, as for our society, isn’t some little bureaucratic job/task better than paying them (welfare) to sit at home in a government house and cut coupons?
Maybe conservatives (me!?) are wrong! Pay that single mom 75 grand to file that same form in the same file cabinet in the same drawer, in the same building and in the same room and the same cubicle for 30 years! Cheaper than welfare? At least the form gets filed?!
It's rarely mentioned but about $11 trillion of that was spent on unionized government do-littles. They get the day off to vote because 15 minutes effort is about their normal workload.