12-02-2007, 07:08 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
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They don't need to say anything. Their actions speak louder than words. For the last few decades they have been replacing the American family with government programs. Look up the illegitimacy rates before and after wellfare. Anyway, I am getting tired of debating what is common knowlege.
Here is a good article on the subject.
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Almost everyone would agree that our most serious social problems are poverty and crime. After all, on which other social problems do we spend more money?
While the proportion of the American population living in poverty has declined somewhat since the advent of President Lyndon Johnson’s so-called "War on Poverty' programs, the decline has come at a huge cost. Over the past four decades, we have spent on social welfare programs an amount approximating our national debt of around $9 trillion. But the cost has been more than just financial.
Particularly disturbing is how the welfare state has driven husbands from the home — especially black homes — by aiding single mothers. Poor women might be poor, but they're not stupid. Neither are poor young men. When they realize that they can get more money from Uncle Sam, single mothers will marry welfare, rather than the fathers of their children. As a result, 70% of black children are now born into fatherless homes.
In effect, through the welfare state, the government releases fathers from their duties to their families. For the rest of us, it increases our duties to total strangers, whose lives we wreck when the government forces us to provide for them. For all practical purposes, the government is saying to poor women, 'You don’t need a man; we’ll take care of you."
While 1996 welfare reform legislation limited the amount of time that women can collect benefits to five years, that has done nothing to reduce the illegitimacy rate. In 1996, 32 percent of all births in the United States were to unmarried women. Over the past decade, that figure has risen to 38 percent.
The first duty in civil society is toward one’s own children. But when males are raised without any expectations that they will have to support their children and marry the mother of their children, they fail to learn the most basic lesson about responsibility.
Unfortunately, anyone who tries to draw attention to the problem, even a Democrat such as Patrick Moynihan, is vilified for doing so. After all, any reference to self reliance and personal responsibility would undermine the argument that blacks are victims of systemic racism.
Ironically, it’s the governmental social welfare system that is undermining the black family, not some pervasive societal racism. In fact, in the name of diversity, colleges and employers are bending over backwards to attract blacks.
Why do Democrats, liberals, and socialists live in denial over the catastrophic consequences of their policies on the American family? Because it’s all about the pursuit of power and control. They seduce us by saying, as Senator Ted Kennedy does, that they are "public servants" rather than politicians. In the end, however, they are really working at being our masters.
And it is important to be clear on this issue: socialism through the welfare state harms everyone equally regardless of race.
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