03-09-2011, 11:21 PM
(03-09-2011, 02:54 AM)BlueTiki Wrote:(03-08-2011, 08:44 PM)Cracker Wrote: Can we really blame a governmental agency for this?
Yes. And we should.
In 1964 LBJ declared a "War on Poverty". Blame the War Department.
These are casualties of this "War".
It's been almost fifty years of "fighting". Is victory on the horizon?
BTW - What is the cost of this "War on Poverty"?
I only hear about the cost of the war on our peaceful Muslim brothers and sisters.
And the one on drugs, too.
Just yesterday I heard someone (Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Peter Schiff, maybe?) say that when our government declares war on something it becomes a huge problem.
The welfare system, LBJ's Great Society, created a slave plantation. Part of that deal was splitting up families. A mother on welfare isn't supposed to live with the dad of her kid(s). The state becomes the parents/nanny/massah of the family. To get the privilege of "help", rights are given up - not to mention dignity. Now we have multi generation welfare families. Add to that the dumbed down "education", day care, Head Start, ect. Who's raising these kids? The STATE. Politicians, gov't employees, and social organizations jealously guard that system. They masquerade as being anti-poverty and anti-racism when it is their state monstrosity that keeps the plantation going.
I could safely bet, and I am not a gambler, that about 90% of the people that LC had to deal with in her career received some kind of state aid. This is the social structure that spawns this horror show.