Posted on 12/18/2020 10:59:43 AM PST by ammodotcom
The dust has settled and the evidence is in: The 1960s Great Society and War on Poverty programs of President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) have been a colossal and giant failure. One might make the argument that social welfare programs are the moral path for a modern government. They cannot, however, make the argument that these are in any way effective at alleviating poverty.
In fact, there is evidence that such aggressive programs might make generational poverty worse. While the notion of a “culture of dependence” is a bit of a cliché in conservative circles, there is evidence that this is indeed the case – that, consciously or not, the welfare state creates a culture where people receive benefits rather than seeking gainful employment or business ownership.
This is not a moral or even a value judgment against the people engaged in such a culture. Again, the claim is not that people “choose to be on welfare,” but simply that social welfare programs incentivize poverty, which has an impact on communities that has nothing to do with individual intent.
We are now over 50 years into the development of the Great Society and the War on Poverty. It is time to take stock in these programs from an objective and evidence-based perspective. When one does that, it is not only clear that the programs have been a failure, but also that they have disproportionately impacted the black community in the United States. The current state of dysfunction in the black community (astronomically high crime rates, very low rates of home ownership and single motherhood as the norm) are not the natural state of the black community in the United States, but closely tied to the role that social welfare programs play.
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It’s not that they didn’t realize what the effect was going to be, it’s that they didn’t care about anything but votes and retaining power for decades to come.
Sad that the same people who have been harmed so deeply by these policies are the same ones whose schools have for generations failed them to the point that they no longer realize or care how they became re-enslaved.
They did it ADVERTENTLY, NOT inadvertently.
Inadvertently? Surely, you can’t be series.
My aunt, who had been in the state legislature and was very left-wing, had a black maid (and companion) who told my aunt long before LBJ that “aid for unwed mothers” was destroying the institution of marriage in her community. An thoughtful Democrat, Pat Moynihan, saw this.
And he bought em all with OPM!
Re: inadvertently
Really? Sorry. I got stuck right there.
$27 TERILLION
60 +++ years
All we have to show for such ‘compassion’ is an ARMY OF FERALS WHO HATE US.
$27 TRILLION
60 +++ years
All we have to show for such ‘compassion’ is an ARMY OF FERALS WHO HATE US.
This article is crap. First he regurgitates well-worn history, then he trashes Trump and gets his programs entirely wrong, including the stats he quoted. Trump did more for black Americans than any other president since Lincoln by bringing jobs and enterprise zones to empower (chiefly) black men, who voted 30% for Trump. It was a major step forward.
The article also doesn’t point out that the rise of abortion and the Pill occurred at the same time as the Great Society, destroying the culture of family of everyone, with blacks hardest hit.
And just daring you to say something about moving their fat ass
There was nothing inadvertent about it.
All those college courses with the title Studies. Ex. Women’s Studies, AA studies etc. are code for easy A for sheeple.
Hear hear. Conservatives want a nation of hunters. Liberals want to chase away all the game and offer one fiercely guarded teat.
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