The reason inner city Philly is rotten (or at least one of the main reasons) is AFDC, along with food stamps, HUD and other bennies for unwed mothers. The rate of illigitemacy among blacks before all of these was about 20%, now it’s about 80%. I agree that rewarding bad behavior does nothing but increase it.
The culture is also toxic. But the homosexual agenda is part and parcel of the hedonist/reject traditional rules/if it feels good do it problem.
The reason inner city Philly is rotten (or at least one of the main reasons) is AFDC, along with food stamps, HUD and other bennies for unwed mothers. The rate of illigitemacy among blacks before all of these was about 20%, now it’s about 80%. I agree that rewarding bad behavior does nothing but increase it.Now we're getting somewhere. Entitlements are part of the problem, but if entitlements were the root of all evil Nigeria would be a paradise.The culture is also toxic. But the homosexual agenda is part and parcel of the hedonist/reject traditional rules/if it feels good do it problem.
But you're 100% right. The problem is that *there are no consequences for bad behavior anymore*. It used to be that nature and society intervened. Want to be promiscuous? You died of an STD, had children you couldn't support and were cast out of society.
However, technology(medicine, transport, cheap food) has made most of those problems tractable. Monstrous diseases like AIDs are treatable. Most single parents, either thanks to the government or their own work can feed their children. Ostracized people can just move to a new city.
The old rules don't work anymore. The wages of sin may still be death, but that death is much longer coming.
Let's not forget the high taxes that drive out small business, lousy schools that drive out decent families, a culture of deep political corruption and cronyism, large Mafia presence, large and powerful gay lobby including City Council members -- and lest we forget, all Democrat mayors for the past 60 years.