Posted on 05/07/2021 10:58:26 AM PDT by ammodotcom
The dust has settled and the evidence is in: The 1960s Great Society and War on Poverty programs of President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) have been a colossal and giant failure. One might make the argument that social welfare programs are the moral path for a modern government. They cannot, however, make the argument that these are in any way effective at alleviating poverty.
In fact, there is evidence that such aggressive programs might make generational poverty worse. While the notion of a “culture of dependence” is a bit of a cliché in conservative circles, there is evidence that this is indeed the case – that, consciously or not, the welfare state creates a culture where people receive benefits rather than seeking gainful employment or business ownership.
This is not a moral or even a value judgment against the people engaged in such a culture. Again, the claim is not that people “choose to be on welfare,” but simply that social welfare programs incentivize poverty, which has an impact on communities that has nothing to do with individual intent.
We are now over 50 years into the development of the Great Society and the War on Poverty. It is time to take stock in these programs from an objective and evidence-based perspective. When one does that, it is not only clear that the programs have been a failure, but also that they have disproportionately impacted the black community in the United States. The current state of dysfunction in the black community (astronomically high crime rates, very low rates of home ownership and single motherhood as the norm) are not the natural state of the black community in the United States, but closely tied to the role that social welfare programs play.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammo.com ...
Inadvertently? I disagree.
Getting the father out of the house was a master-stroke.
Inadvertently?
These guys think LBJ and the Dems didn’t want to ruin black communities?
bttt
who cares what happens to black america....as long as we give them freebies and they keep voting democrat....
That’s a feature, not a bug.
And note that this is exactly why Bammy is considered "The Great Failure" in many, many, many black households, because he did not reimagine black poverty in the only single way it can be eliminated, and instead he paid off the banks under direction of his masters.
Done on purpose with malice of forethought….read Moynihan
The whole point was to ensure their dependency of the gov't, which is why LBJ said, "We'll have *them* voting for us for the next 200 years!"
The GOP can get 60+% of the Black vote if the enact SERIOUS k-12 reforms, choice, and voucher that follow the child.
In a handful of years Black inner city mothers will be thrilled and amazed that their kids are learning and are earning an exit to the socioeconomic jail inner city failed education provides.
The way out and up for these kids is quality education, dems want them dependent, but Republicans could earn a majority party status forever if they would get this done, Federally for vouchers and some tax laws and Ed department reform, then a few incubator test states, say Florida, where the success can be showcased.
You take a dozen of these thrilled moms on a road trip, say Atlanta, do seminars and community outreach and commercials and let their peers, other Black Moms tell the other women, Girl, if you don’t vote Republican and get school choice you’re stupid!
And all of Biden’s proposed freebies are designed to accelerate that trend.
Nuclear families are SO 1950’s.
Devolved into teens with no descriptive characteristics beyond “a man”
Most of the republicans are really dems which explains why they aren’t eager for black kids to “get educated”......
MAN IS MEANT TO WORK AND STRUGAL TAKE THAT AWAY FROM HIM AND IN THE END YOU DESTROY THE MAN
No way..Black dems would be terrified that dems would take away all their free gov’t goodies....
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.