Why are they not in a position to benefit from work? Are they paid in some different currency from everyone else?
Why are they not in a position to benefit from Pell Grants and other government loans for school? I was unaware that only certain poor people were allowed to apply.
Why would they not benefit from affirmative action? Are they a different race of black people not eligible for AA?
This makes no sense.
These people have been on the welfare dole for generations- breaking the mentality takes time and effort. A single mother in the NOLA projects who is about age 16, with a kid or two of her own and who has spent her whole life on welfare likely has a mother about 32 and a grandmother about 48, who have both spent their entire lives on welfare as well. Her father and father of her child are likely in and out of jail until they are put away for life or get killed. Marriage is a strange concept- no one she knows has every been married. Only a few people she knows have even graduated from high school, and she probably knows no one with a college degree. Few people in her life work or have any skills. She likely has never been beyond several blocks of her project, and the only white people she knows are cops or social workers.
There are thousands of people like her in every ghetto in America. A learned helplessness sets in, and they do not know how to save themselves. This is the horrifying legacy of welfare and other government programs, and it should make any decent person sick and angry.