Posted on 11/23/2009 3:39:14 AM PST by Kaslin
At a time when our country is sick, it shouldn't surprise that one our sickest places is our nation's capital.
The poverty rate of Washington, DC, almost 20 percent, is one of the highest in the nation. Its child poverty rate is the nation's highest..
DC's public school system, with a graduation rate of less than 50 percent, is one of the worst in the country.
According to DC's HIV/AIDS office, three percent of the local population has HIV or AIDS. The Administrator of this office notes that this HIV/AIDS incidence is "...higher than West Africa...on par with Uganda and some parts of Kenya." And the principal way that HIV is transmitted continues to be through male homosexual activity.
Amidst this dismal picture, the DC City Council, perhaps on the theory that serving up another glass of wine is the way to help a drunk, is scheduled to vote on December 1 to legalize same sex marriage in America's capital city.
Looking at realities in Washington, DC should make clear why George Washington said "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports."
But the America that our first president had in mind was very different from the vision of our DC government officials.
George Washington's America was one in which the point of freedom is to allow Man to rise to what he can become. To do this, the greatest challenge he faces is conquering himself. To rise above his baser instincts, to rise above the many temptations that lead him astray. And to achieve this end, as Washington said, "religion and morality are indispensible supports."
In left wing America, of which the DC government is a poster child, freedom means to indulge every instinct that the tradition and religion of George Washington would have us overcome.
Where does it lead? Well, look at DC.
It is tempting to look at DC's realities and just call this a black thing. And by and large it is.
DC is largely black -- almost 60 percent. Its poverty is black poverty. Its public school system serves mostly black children. And its AIDS crisis is mostly among blacks.
But the pathologies that strike the weakest parts of our population most brutally are nonetheless pathologies of the nation.
The Brookings Institution is one of our oldest policy institutes and certainly no bastion of conservatism. But in a recently published volume, Brookings scholars Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill point out the centrality of the traditional family to the American dream of opportunity and the centrality of family breakdown to poverty.
Reporting data showing the general breakdown of the traditional American family, they say, "Some claim that anyone who is concerned about these trends is simply out of touch with modern culture; we respond that, if that be the case, then, "modern culture is out of touch with the needs of children."
The Catholic Archdiocese of DC announced that legalization of same sex marriage would make it impossible to continue its relationship with the DC government and require termination of the social services it provides to some 68,000 of the city's poor -- including about one third of its homeless. The reaction of DC council member David Catania was essentially "so what." According to him, "their services are not indispensable."
Is Catania out of touch with the needs of DC's poor?
No. He just has different priorities. More important to him, and more important to DC's left wing city council, is advancing moral relativism and the indulgences it feeds.
This is more important to them than feeding the poor or recognizing the values that would get them out of poverty.
It should concern every American as we watch our nation's capital city transform officially into Sodom.
Please excuse me if I’m wrong, but I belive it should be an O instead of an A. It is our Nation’s CAPITOL.
IMHO
I can feel the weight of Divine judgement fast approaching this nation...its palpable.
Star Parker is writing about Washington, DC, not the capitol building. Big difference
The city is the capital. The building is the capitol. This is true for all the state capitals/capitols, also.
The article pretty much tells it like it is. I havent a comment that can say it plainer. It didnt mention Washington’s high murder rate,nor it’s problem with drugs, I might add DC has one of the strictest gun laws in the country,,That’s working great for them-—not.
DC doesn’t manufacture anything except lobbyists and Government jobs. DC receives a big Federal payment which it uses to pay for it’s gevernment infrastructure, and even still it’s taxes are high, because only a small percentage of it’s citizens pay them.
DC City Councilman David Catania is an excellent example of what is running the city. Marion Barry a cocaine addict, ex-felon,ex mayor is another. By the way Washington DC is 3/4 Democrat and wants to become a state so they can add a commuters tax and economically rape people who work in the city ,but dont live there. That is their primary goal, to have other’s pay for their city.LIke the huge federal payment isnt compensation enough.
It is time for Hurricane Catrina II to hit DC. A Freedom Tsunami.
Catrina changed the composition of New Orleans for the better.
(1) It is Time to DownSize DC. Eliminate entire Departments and move those functions that are worth saving back to the State where they belong.
(2) Eliminate all Federal Functions that are not authorized by the Constitution.
(3) Force Congress & Senate to Telecommute from their home district most of the year. This would put the elected officials back under the thumb of those they purport to represent, and away from the deal making and lobbyists.
The Constitution only states that the Congress shall meet at least 1-time per year and specifies the time (has been changed).
The legislature for the State of Texas meets once every 2 years, and we seem to function pretty well.
ZeroBama and the DemonRatz have a head start on DC, LA, NYC, etc in their quest to turn America into a third world country.....
A third world country? How about a fourth world country?
LLS
bttt
According to DC’s HIV/AIDS office, three percent of the local population has HIV or AIDS. Last week Obama said he isn’t losing weight,wonder why?.
Having said that, with all the queers in Congress, the HIV/AIDS rate in the capitol may be as high as in the capital.
Nope. The city is a CAPITAL. The building is the CAPITOL.
Star Parker is a national treasure. She can speak the truth without fear of being called a racist oppressor. They will try to hang the Uncle Tom/Aunt Jemimah tag on her, but it slides right off.
True and even that is too often. But just hang on, we have LOTS of transplanted Kalifas among us, they'll be sure to change that.
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