Add to Katrina's toll race-tinged rhetoric (Rush, O'Reilly and Glen Beck dividing country)

St. Petersburg Times ^ | September 14, 2005 | ERIC DEGGANS

[GOPJ]

Only in 1996 was welfare limited to five years and focused on training for work. But by then generations of poor blacks had grown up in neighbourhoods where there was no requirement that fathers support their children. Few grew up watching their primary parent work for a living. Most people paid nominal subsidies as rent and were thus less inclined to treat their living spaces well.

The multigenerational welfare family with grandmothers in their forties became typical: young women had babies in their teens because there was no reason not to with welfare waiting to pick up the tab.

This is the hell that most of the people in the Superdome either lived in or knew at close hand, and none of them could help being stamped by it. Welfare reform was only nine years ago.

Now liberals are pushing "disability" as the new welfare... and if you don't believe it watch the TV ads that brag "we can get you disability even if you've been denied" - Liberals need to keep blacks poor, dependent and angry to get their votes and "disability" is the new horse to ride. It carries the same predictable results - poverty, misery, lawlessness and dependency.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Now liberals are pushing "disability" as the new welfare...

Schools find new route to diversity ; New integration plans use income to place pupils***Confronting a chronic achievement gap between rich and poor pupils, a growing number of American school systems are aiming for a new vision of diversity: desegregation by income rather than race.***

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Cambridge Becomes Latest District To Integrate by Income*** Eventually, school enrollments in the district will be expected to deviate by no more than 5 percentage points from the district's overall percentage of K-8 students who qualify for free or reduced-price meals, which currently is 40 percent.

Supporters of the shift hope to erase existing family-income disparities between schools' student enrollments, which range from about 21 percent to 72 percent of students qualifying for the subsidized meals.

"This is what most integration will look like in the 21st century," predicted Richard D. Kahlenberg, a school law expert who recently published a book on wealth-based school integration. He is a senior fellow at the Washington-based Century Foundation that advised Cambridge on its plan.***

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