1 posted on
12/29/2012 7:49:28 PM PST by
neverdem
To: neverdem
Accordingly, the surest way for the government to fight poverty is to eliminate cash assistance almost entirely and offer jobs insteadbbbbzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..........
Heck no. I don't think 40 million new government employees in Obama's Civilian Army is a good idea.
2 posted on
12/29/2012 8:07:53 PM PST by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: neverdem
Just one more rich racist white guy who wants hold the people down while projecting his own guilt feelings on the poor oppressed folks who have been deliberately crammed into the worst part of town because that’s the only place whites will let them live.
That’s why the rice fields are being cleared for planting, as we speak.
3 posted on
12/29/2012 8:13:12 PM PST by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(This stuff we're going through now, this is nothing compared to the middle ages.)
To: neverdem
I’m not that proud of it, and wasn’t particualarily good at it, but I was working television on-the-street newsman when this all started. The author is correct. Simply, men need a job to turn this all around, a job that will return them to head of household status, instead of giving a woman a check!
4 posted on
12/29/2012 8:26:41 PM PST by
Ace's Dad
(Reagan ELF; when the Gipper stood up to the USSR, once again.)
To: neverdem
When you give someone a handout you lose wealth.
When you give them a job you still have the money you gave them because you have received production of equal value.
5 posted on
12/29/2012 8:39:27 PM PST by
Mr. K
(There are lies, dammed lies, statistics, and democrap talking points.)
To: neverdem
It would help if those posting ACTUALLY read the article. This guy was a big government socialist, but found a better way. He advocates WORKING first, and the elimination of cash welfare benefits.
6 posted on
12/29/2012 8:41:51 PM PST by
Amberdawn
To: neverdem
7 posted on
12/29/2012 8:52:49 PM PST by
logitech
(Who's here so vile, that will not love his country? If any speak, for him I have offended)
To: neverdem
My town has a lovely park that used to be full of local families playing, picnicking, and enjoying nature. It's now full to the brim with “homeless” doing drugs, drinking, getting in fights, and they've run out the families who are actually paying the taxes to maintain the park. We did some research and discovered that many of our new “outdoor residents” are arriving daily from other towns for the free food being provided by a local “social services” agency. That organization has a budget that increases in proportion to the “population it serves”, in other words, its budget and the salaries of the staff increases as they inflict more and more bums on us.
We tried to get some common sense restrictions on their activities, only to be met by this well organized mob of professional do-gooders. The problem with attacking poverty is that you're dealing with a triple self-interest group: the “clients”, the people “serving” the clients, and the politicians pandering to the first two, all of them full of self-righteousness and spewing pseudo-morality, and none of them remotely concerned about the damage they're doing to the quality of life of the majority of the community.
8 posted on
12/29/2012 9:30:33 PM PST by
ArmstedFragg
(hoaxy dopey changey)
To: neverdem
11 posted on
12/29/2012 9:47:20 PM PST by
Boiler Plate
("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
To: neverdem
But welfare, not work, reelects tyrants.
12 posted on
12/29/2012 9:57:07 PM PST by
Happy Rain
(Outlawing firearms because of Adam Lanza would be like outlawing free speech because of Bill Maher.)
To: neverdem
Can’t buy a luxury car and nice place on welfare.
13 posted on
12/29/2012 10:54:06 PM PST by
Morris70
To: neverdem
The obamaphone class isn’t interested in being “uplifted”. It is ONLY interested in how much they can get for free.
19 posted on
12/30/2012 4:53:29 AM PST by
freeangel
( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
To: neverdem
“Another signature achievement of Veras, by the way, was its practice of conducting research on its own initiatives, something practically unheard-of at the time. Almost all War on Poverty programs shied away from serious empirical research, since they were mainly run by people with an ideological belief in the redemptive power of their own programs. Measuring the performance of their antipoverty efforts threatened that belief.”
Just like global warming, just like gun control.
20 posted on
12/30/2012 5:08:49 AM PST by
gotribe
To: neverdem
See also:
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth regarding the related topic of public housing. The video documents the "good intentions" of government and how it failed miserably with an enormous housing project.
It began as a housing marvel. Built in 1956, Pruitt-Igoe was heralded as the model public housing project of the future, "the poor man's penthouse." Two decades later, it ended in rubble - its razing an iconic event that the architectural theorist Charles Jencks famously called "the death of modernism." The footage and images of its implosion have helped to perpetuate a myth of failure, a failure that has been used to critique Modernist architecture, attack public assistance programs, and stigmatize public housing residents.
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth seeks to set the historical record straight. To examine the interests involved in Pruitt-Igoe's creation. To re-evaluate the rumors and the stigma. To implode the myth.
SOURCE: Amazon.com
21 posted on
12/30/2012 5:40:21 AM PST by
arasina
(Communism is EVIL. So there.)
To: neverdem
My goodness - suggesting that poor people work as a means of bettering themselves spiritually, morally and economically? That's BLASPHEMY!!!
23 posted on
12/30/2012 7:08:17 AM PST by
trebb
(Allies no longer trust us. Enemies no longer fear us.)
To: neverdem
Excellent piece. The tens of millions of able-bodied adults not working is a lot of what lies at the heart of what ails our country at this time. A change in policy to push them into the labor force would go a lng ways towards improving the situation.
To: neverdem
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