Posted on 01/05/2014 7:30:05 AM PST by Titus-Maximus
If we shield that 15% from the consequences of their poor decisions will their behavior ever change? The problem with welfare is we remove the incentive to change and improve. Under welfare there is no downside to being a screwup.
Mixed bag? It’s a dogs breakfast! It’s the contents of a barf bag.
It ended a long time ago....Poverty won.
That is true, but then what is the solution? Is it to keep on subsidizing this ever-increasing group of Americans who do not have the intellectual wherewithal to contribute to society, or can we do something about these leeches?
Or more clearly stated, do we have the guts to do what's right? That would involve separation and sterilization leading to the eventual elimination of this parasite class of Americans who cost the country half of a trillion in terms of welfare, crime prevention, disease, and incompetence in jobs taken from more qualified people thanks to affirmative action/discrimination.
I should add that the cost is half a trillion annually. The real cost might be higher.
When de Toqueville toured the USA in 1831, he observed that, despite the universal opportunity presented by open land and a free market, approximately one in seven households instead chose to live in poverty and squalor.
From that time forward, the proportion of households making this perverse choice is fundamentally unchanged. Those living in involuntary poverty come and go from the statistics, but the core group remains mired in the swamp -- having found it easier to live on the dole than to work their way out of it.
Accordingly, the problem isn't defined by a "lack of opportunity", it's "human nature".
Looked at in an honest way, Poverty of Character has, indeed, climbed much higher.
The Times has sunk to making this argument:
Q: Why do you have that strange pendant around your neck?
A: It keeps tigers away.
Q: Tigers? There aren't any tigers around here!
A: See how well it works? :)
If only we had more government programs, higher taxes, and a surge in the war on poverty we could eliminate poverty. never mind we have the fattest poor in the world with automobiles, electricity, running water, multiple cell phones, multiple TVs, cable, education, food, health care, and most of it is free.
If only someone would run the country on “hope.” “Hope in one hand and [deficate] in the other, guess which one fills up first”
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