Most people who look at what we spend on welfare focus on one program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children or AFDC. And that program alone amounts to a tiny sum when compared with the entire budget.
So to criticize it, as conservatives are wont to do, makes it seem as though we're heartless. Maybe we are, though with spending out of control, including a 727% increase in entitlement spending over half a century, as adjusted for both population and inflation, I think our WASP-like character is being attacked. You know, rugged individualism that I read as a boy in the Little on the Prairie series.
But there's the cultural angle I learned from Charles Murray's path-breaking, irrefutable 1984 Losing Ground, where AFDC encourages young women to intentionally go out and get pregnant by a boyfriend in order to establish their independence thanks to the state sugar daddy. Not a bad daddy except in times of national emergency, as welfare mothers discovered in Katerina New Orleans. And these young mothers end up not being the best parents. Sorry, Katesha, but orange soda and Cheetoes does not a good breakfast make for the little ones.
In the case of the black community, where the stigma against this sort of behavior--it's almost magical to think in the 1930s the Negro family had less breakup than the white one--disappeared before it did for any other ethnic group, has devastating. What Jim Crow and the Great Depression couldn't kill--the black family--the welfare plantation has.
For three lost generations now-it's worse than you think--one can go into communities where the predominance of the families is one in which there is no father present. Very bad for boys, who often group up behaving more like criminals than role models.
The Irish had a similar experience in a previous century when most of the adult male figures left to work on the railroads and communities of Irish lasses raised wolves for sons.
But the truth is, as I have learned by Martin Gross and reminded of recently by this Stephen Dinan news report in the Washington Times, "Welfare Spending Jumps 32% During Obama Presidency," there are _dozens and dozens_ of poverty programs that, when added up all together, truly create a different picture than looking solely at AFDC. Gross is certainly entertaining and informative in this podcast with Dennis Prager. I'm a repeat listener, though with guilty pleasure as Gross calls Obama's lack of intellectual pedigree. But Gross reminds me of the accountant in the movie Dave who looks at the accounting books of the feds and rolls his eyes at the chicanery.
So to criticize it, as conservatives are wont to do, makes it seem as though we're heartless. Maybe we are, though with spending out of control, including a 727% increase in entitlement spending over half a century, as adjusted for both population and inflation, I think our WASP-like character is being attacked. You know, rugged individualism that I read as a boy in the Little on the Prairie series.
But there's the cultural angle I learned from Charles Murray's path-breaking, irrefutable 1984 Losing Ground, where AFDC encourages young women to intentionally go out and get pregnant by a boyfriend in order to establish their independence thanks to the state sugar daddy. Not a bad daddy except in times of national emergency, as welfare mothers discovered in Katerina New Orleans. And these young mothers end up not being the best parents. Sorry, Katesha, but orange soda and Cheetoes does not a good breakfast make for the little ones.
In the case of the black community, where the stigma against this sort of behavior--it's almost magical to think in the 1930s the Negro family had less breakup than the white one--disappeared before it did for any other ethnic group, has devastating. What Jim Crow and the Great Depression couldn't kill--the black family--the welfare plantation has.
For three lost generations now-it's worse than you think--one can go into communities where the predominance of the families is one in which there is no father present. Very bad for boys, who often group up behaving more like criminals than role models.
The Irish had a similar experience in a previous century when most of the adult male figures left to work on the railroads and communities of Irish lasses raised wolves for sons.
But the truth is, as I have learned by Martin Gross and reminded of recently by this Stephen Dinan news report in the Washington Times, "Welfare Spending Jumps 32% During Obama Presidency," there are _dozens and dozens_ of poverty programs that, when added up all together, truly create a different picture than looking solely at AFDC. Gross is certainly entertaining and informative in this podcast with Dennis Prager. I'm a repeat listener, though with guilty pleasure as Gross calls Obama's lack of intellectual pedigree. But Gross reminds me of the accountant in the movie Dave who looks at the accounting books of the feds and rolls his eyes at the chicanery.
We've reached a tipping point where the taxpayers are being ganged up on
by the tax eaters.But since most Americans aren't too good at math,
it's doable for the looming Fiscal Armageddon facing us to continue its
march unimpeded.
Gross's 2009 book National Suicide has received only a small fraction of the MSM coverage as his 1992 book Government Racket, which was seen as attacking Bush Sr. But the more recent book is much more important: rather than gubmit waste, it's the actual future of our existence as a functioning republic.
I'm a tax payer. I could easily, with four children, kick back and become a tax eater. The typical recipient--and there are 100 million--receives on average $9,000. Not bad. That's almost half my part time job. My wife could work less, too. We'd get to see each more.
I hear the grocery stores are packed early every month when the food stamp card is issued, around the fifth. I've often thought of showing up with a camera to show you what I was told by a check-out clerk.
I'm starting to feel like a sucker. And I don't think I'm alone.
Gross's 2009 book National Suicide has received only a small fraction of the MSM coverage as his 1992 book Government Racket, which was seen as attacking Bush Sr. But the more recent book is much more important: rather than gubmit waste, it's the actual future of our existence as a functioning republic.
I'm a tax payer. I could easily, with four children, kick back and become a tax eater. The typical recipient--and there are 100 million--receives on average $9,000. Not bad. That's almost half my part time job. My wife could work less, too. We'd get to see each more.
I hear the grocery stores are packed early every month when the food stamp card is issued, around the fifth. I've often thought of showing up with a camera to show you what I was told by a check-out clerk.
I'm starting to feel like a sucker. And I don't think I'm alone.
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