Why We Need Our Safety Net Back (Barf alert)

NPR ^ | 9/22/2010 | Kai Wright

[Jack Wilson]

Today's poverty is the accumulated toll of two forces that have advanced in tandem for decades: The corporate fleecing of family wealth and the bipartisan destruction of a refuge to which those shorn families can turn. We fought a long, hard war on poverty to avoid landing in precisely this place. But the Reagan revolution ushered in a long hard war on government to undue that progress.

[Jack Wilson]

NPR needs some comments

[ClearCase_guy]

the two guilty parties seem to be the corporations which generate wealth, hire people, and pay salaries -- and the Republicans who stand in the way of high taxes and who oppose entitlement programs which reward people for being uneducated and unproductive.

Hmmmmmmmm. Do those sound like the root cause of poverty?

Maybe -- just maybe -- the leftwing policies pursued by our government over a period of decades has something to do with this increase in poverty.

[ClearCase_guy]

But the Reagan revolution ushered in a long hard war on government to undue that progress.

Undue the progress!

Journalism is a pathetic field full of whining idiots.

[econjack]

We fought a long, hard war on poverty to avoid landing in precisely this place.

Trillions of dollars spent since Johnson's Great Society and a report last week shows that poverty has actually increased. True, there are people out there who simply can't work and I think they should be helped...but not by gov't. We need to go back to the pre-1930's and let charity and the church help those in need. For those who need 99 weeks to find a job, let the gov't follow the German experience: If you draw welfare or unemployment comp, you show up at 6:30AM to clean public toilets, sweep the streets or any other job that is so bad you look for "real" work rather than public work. Politicians here use unemployment comp and welfare to buy votes. Enough. I look at the trillions spent on poverty in this country and I have to ask: What have the poor done for me lately. Answer: not much, other than suck the system dry.

[hometoroost]

NPR does need some comments. And some facts. And an editor. This is a journalism fellow? Split infinitives and "undue?"

How can anyone look at the spending that is going on and say government is crippled? Utter nonsense.

[jdsteel]

New SAT question:

Q: “Progress” is to “Socialism” as “Peace” is to.....

A: Radical Islam

[MBB1984]

This is nothing more than an attack on capitalism and demagoguery for Marxism. Our nation needs more self responsibility and self reliance than an indulgence in parasitism.

[ClearCase_guy]

There is another thread nearby in which the Federal Reserve is discussed. Established in 1913, the Fed is intended to protect the value of the dollar. Since 1913, the dollar has lost 95% of is value.

Hmmmmmmmmm.

I added a comment to that thread that the Department of Energy was established by Carter to end our dependence on foreign oil. And the government has worked tirelessly to hamstring our domestic oil production and our nuclear energy programs.

Hmmmmmmmmmm.

And, of course, the War On Poverty has resulted in a great increase in poverty.

We're at a turning point. People need to see that government isn't the solution. Government is the problem. If we do not grasp this now, then our country is lost. Frankly, I think it probably already is -- but Nov 2010 just may prove me wrong.

[MrB]

The causes of poverty are the very “safety net” programs that they tout as the solution.

The dissolution of the family,
rewarding of out of wedlock births,
promotion of extra-marital sex,
the denegration of the Man and the father role in the family.

All these things culminate in poverty.
And they are all the result of LIBERAL/PROGRESSIVE government programs and ideologies.

[ryan71]

Show me a dependent, victim seeking culture and I’ll show you one that lives in poverty.

[KarlInOhio]

Why We Need Our Safety Net Back (Barf alert)

NPR ^ | 9/22/2010 | Kai Wright

How about if we do (or "due" for the NPR writers) away with safety net/welfare radio too.

[Buckeye McFrog]

NPR needs to be on the “Defund” list, just below Obamacare and the EPA

[econjack]

The list goes on and on...In 1973, in response to the oil embargo, the gov’t passed an Alternative Fuels Tax to fund the development of alternative fuels. We've been paying this tax for almost 40 years, but I've yet to see one drop of alternative fuel hit my gas tank.