[Still Thinking]

For instance, the Obama administration’s Promise Neighborhoods are supposed to replicate, in 21 cities, what the Harlem Children’s Zone has done in Manhattan—to “create plans to provide cradle-to-career services that improve the educational achievement and healthy development of children,”

Creepy. Has almost a eugenicist feel about it.

[Yardstick]

Good read.

[exDemMom]

In doing so, Glazer continues, “social policy weakens the position of these traditional agents and further encourages needy people to depend on the government for help rather than on the traditional structures. This is the basic force behind the ever growing demand for more social programs and their frequent failure to satisfy our hopes.”

I believe that is the goal of "social policy." When you are born into poverty, you are taught that the only way to better your life is to vote for the most "caring" politicians. For Democrats (who always campaign that they "care" and Republicans "don't care"), indoctrinating as many people as possible with that belief guarantees that they will get more power.

Having been raised with that indoctrination, I can attest that it is very difficult to overcome.