http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/01/w...gnant.html

Quote:What was supposed to be a 'safety net' is a lifetime of free housing, food, medical care, a two bedroom house, a flat screen TV, a car, air conditioning, a computer and an x-box. This is the lifestyle of the average family under the poverty line, according to federal statistics.

There is no kindness in these toxic gifts. Thanks to Uncle Sam's free stuff, your daughter will never finish high school or get a job. She'll live in a dispiriting sub-culture where few people work, self-respect and dignity are hard to come by, self-destruction and violence abounds. Uncle Sam took an upwardly mobile, functioning black community and through good intentions, turned it into one of predatory men, women struggling on their own, and neglected children running wild.

No one would ruin their own child's life that way.

So why are we doing it to someone else's child?

Because it works for Democrats.

Your daughter will vote Democrat for the rest of her life.

Those of us in the boomer generation have seen the War on Poverty, launched with such hope, destroy the people it was meant to help - and their children, and their children's children. It is a nightmare from which the country can't seem to wake up. Yet for Democrats, it is a beautiful dream, a twofer that gives them a sense of moral superiority as the party of compassion, and keeps them in power.

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Read Dr. Thomas Sowell: American blacks were on an upward mobility trend, on their way out into a good working and middle class life, when the War on Poverty cut them off at the knees.

"The economic rise of blacks began decades earlier, before any of the (War on Poverty) legislation and policies that are credited with producing that rise. The continuation of the rise of blacks out of poverty did not - repeat, did not - accelerate during the 1960s.

The poverty rate among black families fell from 87 percent in 1940 to 47 percent in 1960, during an era of virtually no major civil rights legislation or anti-poverty programs. ...

In various skilled trades, the incomes of blacks relative to whites more than doubled between 1936 and 1959 - that is, before the magic 1960s decade when supposedly all progress began. The rise of blacks in professional and other high-level occupations was greater in the five years preceding the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than in the five years afterwards."

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(01-31-2014 09:21 AM)DrTorch Wrote:  

Quote:Those of us in the boomer generation have [voted for] the War on Poverty, launched with such hope, destroy the people it was meant to help - and their children, and their children's children.

FIFY. The Boomers have a hard time accepting responsibility for the shithole they turned this country into.