paying somebody to sit on their azz all day only getting up to eat, drink and fornicate takes it toll...It's time to end welfare. Not "welfare as we know it," but welfare -- all of it.
That's not to say we don't take care of the poor. But we have to stop ENCOURAGING and REWARDING poverty as we have over the past century (especially the past 40 years) and have done to a ridiculous degree under O-ZERO.
How do we do replace welfare? We go back to a system that worked or HUNDREDS of years before the "progressive" era: Private charity, faith-based institutions, poor farms, workhouses and the like.
All of these institutions emphasized spiritual development and labor as the way out of poverty. The poor were not coddled and made to feel like victims. They were told in a straightforward way that their poverty was not a badge of honor, but a failing that they needed to overcome. They were made to feel a healthy SHAME about their circumstances and encouraged to regain their dignity by paying back society for carrying them.
It's time. The progressive experiments have failed. Let's go back to what worked.
A pretty fair amount of clap-trap in the article...
The stress of living paycheck to paycheck,etc.
Who hasn’t done that, at some point?
Adapt, improvise and overcome.
Next obstacle, please.
The article is about education:
“Overall, in a very short span, we’ve seen a widening gulf between those with the least and most education in America.”
It sounds like those egghead ivory-tower brainiac professors are saying their better then us!! See how they like it when we defund all Public Universities!
paying somebody to sit on their azz all day only getting up to eat, drink and fornicate takes it toll...I completely disagree.
Free sex and abortion and the destruction of the family unit is the problem.
It's not education and health care. Those aren't the problems - it's drug use, gang deaths ( yes, those are averaged in to how long a group lives) and stupid life choices ( smoking, alcoholism, promiscuity etc) It's liberals making people dependent and broken... to secure cheap votes.
So now it's education. "If we don’t create better education ladders for Americans to climb, we will find ourselves in a polarized country". We already have a polarized country! And there are plenty of education ladders, we just have waaaay too many people who want to be lifted by a crane because they're too fat and lazy to climb the abundant ladders that are readily available.
The kind of poverty we have in the US isn't the kind of poverty that more money will fix, so why even try?
I would be sceptical of anything funded by this foundation. It is a left wing group, not unlike the Ford Foundation.
I think it was Milton Friedman...
If you want more of something, subsidize it.
If you want less of something, tax it.
The life span differences among the races has a lot to do with infant mortality. Once you get beyond that, the differences start to disappear. At birth, black females outlive white males. Table 105. Life Expectancy by Sex, Age, and Race: 2008
Decisions have consequences...
Our rural county has high poverty and an earlier than average death rate. Some of the poverty here is because we have always been a natural resource-based economy. With the spotted owl, the salmon and other environmental regulations, whole communities have slid into high unemployment and substance abuse.
You just can’t take a 60 year old logger or farmer and stick him in an office or the hospitality industry.
After 20 years of helping to deal with it, I believe it is a direct result of urban idiots who have no concept from where the food they eat, the clothes they wear and the houses they live in come. They would faint looking at the rear end of a cow in a squeeze chute. Rural people are looked upon as inferior throw aways that don’t count - particularly by the California urban legislature.
I can tell you that part of the early death rate is suicide. Many of these are young males from 17-30. But some are older folks. Just last month a seventy year old widowed female veteran in our town shot her little dog and then herself. The reason for suicide here is generally poverty and despair.
May the lord forgive you heartless people who see all poverty as a scam by lazy people against the system. I hope that you and yours never have to walk in their shoes some day.
