Posted on 05/07/2021 10:58:26 AM PDT 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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My stepfather was..His nickname in his family was hambone....
My stepfathers family had 9 kids..Everyone of them had a nickname...
There was nothing inadvertent about it. It was planned to create a permanent underclass who would always need government.
Those who refuse to play the victim and are willing to play by the rules are much better off. The true racism that existed then is nearly gone. The disruptors are desperately trying to bring it back; hopefully they will fail.
Wow,I’m 2 years older than your Daddy. 😱
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I agree with what you said.
Those blacks who refused to live on the Democrat Plantation and who got an education and ignored the racist liberal playbook?
They are indeed so much more better off. I only wish they could influence the others in their communities to follow their example.
This parallels exactly with Shelby Steele’s conclusions in his film, “What Killed Michael Brown?”
He lays the blame at the feet, not of racism, but of black people putting their trust in white liberals who promised to redeem them from racism and discrimination but whose actions show that all they really wanted out of the deal was to have the burden of their white guilt lightened.
Podcast synopsis here: https://reason.com/podcast/2020/11/11/shelby-steele-what-really-killed-michael-brown/
And when those kids came of age in the mid ‘80s, the crack epidemic hit and gang violence exploded. Not a coincidence.
An excellent article.
That was the entire intent, to make blacks dependent upon government, addicted to government benefits, so they would vote Democrat forever.
He could have you murdered on a golf course in front of witnesses and his hit man would get off with a slap on the wrist.
I’m constantly amazed people don’t appreciate that
I learned back in the 80s that welfare destroyed black entrepenurship between the 50s and the 70s.
Dr. Thomas Sowell has written about this numerous times about the parity between black and white families until gubmint “social” programs.
Back when the Daily News wasn't too much of a Leftist propaganda organ, they had an article wherein mothers in Harlem were teaching their 14-year-old daughters how to get pregnant so they could bring in another couple of hundred a month.
The City paid, and I think still do, welfare per person - then wondered why the payload escalated.
Like Soviet Russia
Like Soviet Russia
Engage every media outlet to shirek that people are evil for not voting for your party and you’ll find you have the freedom do to whatever you please!
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