OK, well, what you see in the photos is, oddly enough, NOT Obama’s Fault. It’s Johnson’s fault.
This entire “crisis” is a manifestation of generations of bad behavior and choices rewarded and coddled and subsidized. It won’t go away with the next Republican President - but that person could start the process. I’d say that it will take about as long to “fix” it as it took to create it - about 50 years. And I certainly don’t think that the described behavior is unique to one race. The fact is, that all the “smart” people, of all races left Detroit 20-30 years ago at the latest, with the exception of some very brave entrepreneurs.
All of these rewards and subsidies for bad choices and bad behavior have essentially been a “payoff” so that people don’t riot. The bottom line is that simple. When the country was wealthy and there weren’t that many people making these bad choices, the system seemed to work, but the underlying problem just got worse and worse. Now...
People actually DID have children at 16 with no job, no income, and no father in the 40’s and 50’s. Their lives were hell from that point on, their peers noticed this, and they decided that doing so wasn’t a good idea. Same with dropping out, getting in trouble with the law, not developing some kind of marketable skill, and so on.
The “free stuff” spigot needs to be turned off - but very slowly, over years, maybe decades.
All of these rewards and subsidies for bad choices and bad behavior have essentially been a “payoff” so that people don’t riot. The bottom line is that simple. When the country was wealthy and there weren’t that many people making these bad choices, the system seemed to work, but the underlying problem just got worse and worse...The “free stuff” spigot needs to be turned off - but very slowly, over years, maybe decades.
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You make a good point; the origin of the freebies goes back aways and yes, it can’t be turned off overnight without massive societal “unrest”.
While the problem originated with Johnson, there can be no question that Obama has raised entitlement expectations through Obamacare, free cell phones, massive bailouts, endless extensions of unemployment benefits, expansion of social services for illegals, and his and general support for income redistribution. Johnson started the fire, Obama poured gasoline on it.