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Riots Are The Legacy Of Slavery? Try Legacy Of Welfare
Investors Business Daily ^ | 5/4/2015 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 05/05/2015 11:32:19 AM PDT by gogeo

You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization — including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain — without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: crime; riots; sowell
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1 posted on 05/05/2015 11:32:19 AM PDT by gogeo
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To: gogeo

See: “palestinians”.


2 posted on 05/05/2015 11:33:40 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that - Baltimore's Democrat Mayor)
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To: gogeo

Dr. Sowell explains in one paragraph what intelligentsia everywhere haven’t figured out.


3 posted on 05/05/2015 11:33:44 AM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

True enough!


4 posted on 05/05/2015 11:34:17 AM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
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To: gogeo

” the poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits every year since 1994.”

Why marry when Uncle Sam will support you?


5 posted on 05/05/2015 11:42:56 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (True followers of Christ emulate Christ. True followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.)
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To: gogeo

...of BOTH


6 posted on 05/05/2015 11:48:40 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: gogeo

Riots are the legacy of Democrat Party policies which encompasses both slavery and welfare. Democrat policies and programs have created an atmosphere in which riots can occur with near impunity as long as the rioters are black and democrat drone/slugs.


7 posted on 05/05/2015 11:51:51 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“Why marry when Uncle Sam will support you?”

Why marry when the milk is free and Uncle Sam picks up the tab for the kids.


8 posted on 05/05/2015 11:54:41 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: gogeo

Riots are the legacy of poor parenting leading to a planning horizon of only a few minutes for many yutes.


9 posted on 05/05/2015 12:10:37 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: gogeo

One moderately long sentence.....


10 posted on 05/05/2015 12:12:05 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: TexasGator

The milk wouldn’t be free for very long if the “cow” or her family had to support the little results of “free milk”.


11 posted on 05/05/2015 12:14:17 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Paladin2

Moderation in all things, says I.


12 posted on 05/05/2015 1:02:48 PM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
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To: gogeo

I never had a problem with a paragraph having but one sentence.


13 posted on 05/05/2015 1:04:00 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

That’s an efficient use of breaks. These electrons aren’t free, you know.


14 posted on 05/05/2015 1:05:48 PM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
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To: gogeo

Free the Electrons from their bondage....


15 posted on 05/05/2015 1:07:48 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: gogeo

That sentence says it all.


16 posted on 05/05/2015 1:18:15 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: jazusamo

Ping.


17 posted on 05/05/2015 5:22:26 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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