Welfare should be a temporary crutch, not a cure. If he really wants black votes by saying more people should get out of jail and go on welfare, his thinking is shallow. There are many other options for black Americans, I know for a fact.
Our present approach makes it very difficult for a person released from jail to support himself legally.
You have to admit that’s an idiotic policy if we’re trying to bring down recidivism.
Policy changes that would make sense, however, aren’t obvious.
He is an idiot. No one can fix the black community but the black community. Until they accept the fact that welfare is nothing more than a vote buying scam that THEY bought into and simultaneously destroyed their family structure, nothing will change for them. It’s like a drug addict that can’t be helped until they want to change themselves. These last 6 years has made it impossible for anyone outside the black community to help them with all these fallacious accusations of racism. To change the punishments and records for criminals is only going to hurt the rest of us.
Rand Paul IS the nut that fell very close to the tree.
He’s not going to get black voters no matter what he promises. Republicans never do. This policy will run off any conservative vote he may have been hoping for.
Although I think incarcerating people and taking their property for possession of small amounts of drugs as giving long terms in prision wrong, I think all violent crime should be seriously dealt with. Property crime should be handled seriously, too. And gangs...we need to go after gangs and get them off the streets as they are corrupting the young.