Illegal to Feed Homeless in Parks

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by jinx

I don't see a whole lot of "compassion" involved in letting people born on 3rd base raise the next generation on welfare ...

We have now several generations of urban poor whose entire culture has been shaped by the welfare state, disincentives to build two-parent families, and a constant subliminal environmental message: that because you are a poor member of a racial minority that you cannot survive without a government handout, and the only way to succeed is to be a sports star, rapper or gangsta (or maybe all three), and the best route to a meaningful life as a woman is to get pregnant before leaving high school.

This was all done with the very best of progressive liberal intentions, rooted in a desire to elmiminate poverty and driven by intense guilt about the inequities of the past. It's surely no accident that the epitome of this "war of poverty" was a US president from Texas, born into rural white poverty in the deep South, elected to Congress during the Great Depression, and thrust into the leadership as a combat hero of World War II.

He meant well...and died long before the "unintended consequences" of his Great Society policies could be appreciated.