How the Welfare state ruined black families

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[Mayamax]

The destruction of the nuclear family continues to be a major factor.
"If a boy doesn't have a father in the home he'll find one on the streets."- Denzel Washington

[patricksullivan]

It is a damn shame that more people in this country know who Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson are, than Thomas Sowell. Why is that? One of the most intelligent men ever in this countries history.

[wyominghome]

My Dad was a social worker in San Diego County, California, in the 1960s/70s, when the apparent rationale among caseworkers was "just give them the money" and you're right it wasn't just aimed at Black Americans but at low income people in general. One day, shortly after joining the Department of Social Services, my Dad came home and told me he had made a family better off by convincing the father to quit his job. The family had 8-9 children and the father was working at a low-income job, which apparently qualified them for food stamps, which then brought my father to their door. He told the man he could get more money on welfare than he was making at his job, so the man took his advice. I remember I was 16 and utterly horrified at his story, because even at that young age I saw that the job however poorly paid delivered many other benefits to that family and to that father in particular: 1.) self-respect, 2.) the respect of his children and spouse, 3.) comradeship with co-workers, 4.) time away from 8-9 kids, 5.) somewhere to go every day, 6.) meaningful work and a sense of purpose. Welfare took all of that away and left him sitting at home with time on his hands.

Was that unique to San Diego? No. Three years later my older sister, who had dropped out of high school to get married at 17 suddenly found herself at 23 divorced and with three children to support as a seating hostess in a restaurant in Los Angeles County. But she was getting food stamps, and one day her caseworker - no doubt looking down from the lofty heights of her Master's Degree in Social Work, made that same suggestion: "Quit work. I can give you more money on welfare than you're making at your job." To her, my sister with no college or even high school diploma had no future except to be warehoused along with her kids within the government welfare system. The difference here was that my sister looked at this woman and said, "If I do that I will never dig myself out of this hole I'm in." I often wonder at the courage it took to say that.

Getting out of that hole was a struggle that included another failed marriage and two more children, but 15 years later she and her husband owned a popular steak restaurant in Northern California and lived in a beautiful home on the edge of a golf course. She still didn't have a college degree or high school diploma, but she and her husband had learned the business and worked hard, and with that restaurant they made far more than that caseworker ever could working for LA County. LBJ's Great Society destroyed a lot of families.

[Storms]

The biggest issue is it helped encouraged the "black culture" of single-mom households as LBJ's welfare program punished poor households that still had the father in the household. Over time it became a part of the social norm of black men running out on their children for a single-mom household. Democrats need to take responsibility for that.

[judd]

The Food Stamp Pro-gram, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is proud to be distributing the greatest amount of free meals and food stamps ever.
Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered by the U.S. Depart-ment of the Interior, asks us to "Please Do Not Feed the Animals."
Their stated reason for the policy is because the animals will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves.
This ends today's lesson

[tishku]

Hubby and I pay 30% of our income to taxes and even more when it's a bonus. We can't even afford government healthcare. If we work a second job, we are penalized in taxes and end up having to pay even more at the end of the year! We pay and pay and then pay some more and get NOTHING BACK. I stand in line at the grocery store buying chicken thighs and ground beef while the woman in front of me paying by EBT, with her nails and hair did, has cart FULL of steak and STOP ALL WELFARE!!!!

[garethleitner]

Lyndon Baines Johnson was hugely responsible.

[KyleDavid]

I wish I had just a fraction of Thomas Sowell's knowledge! This man should be the role model for today's society!

[Mayamax]

“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” – George Bernard Shaw

[jackmorgan]

I was born in the still racially segregated south in 1952. Black people in their neighborhoods, going to their schools, and the only time we ever saw or talked to each other is when we passed while in town, shopping. I started going to school with those kids for the first time in September '66. We got along rather well, thank you very much, 'cause "we, " all concerned, had families, mom's and dad's, who were doing the best they could and that, at the end of the day, was THE common thing that made us learn to accept each other not "because of" that racial difference but rather "in spite of" it.
Fast-forward to 1978. I was a correctional officer in a state prison. Visiting day was over. I got to meet the family of one of the inmates, a black guy. I don't know why he was locked up. All I know is he was one of the nicest men I had ever met. His youngest daughter was nine. I said I bet he was looking forward to his parole so he could be with his family. He said, "Nope, I ain't getting out 'til she's grown 'cause I can't provide the money they get from the government while I'm locked up." So he did indeed "act up" to keep from being granted paroled.
Now fast-forward to 2022.
Mr. Sowell understands this better than anyone else I will never meet.

[timpatjoe]

Welfare is a horrible trap. I got stuck on it myself in my early 20s. It destroys your motivation and self esteem

[allysondoerfler]

I'm 71 - I remember discussions that The Great Society would be very detrimental to poor families. After all these billions of dollars, and destroyed lives, those voices understood what a lot of people did not.

[Adamentin]

The power of self-determination is freedom

[Mayamax]

“In general, the art of government consists of taking as much
money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to
the other.” --Voltaire (1764)

[beaupierrebondurant]

Dr.Thomas Sowell is an American treasure.

[itinerantpatriot]

I remember reading a passage from the book, "Mutual Contempt, " that summed up the liberal mind set of that era better than any long-winded essay ever could. One of JFK's best and brightest was working with Bobby Kennedy on an alternative to LBJ's Model City program for the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of NYC. He turned to Bobby and remarked that as counterintuitive as it may seem, it appeared to him that corporations and free-market solutions offered more hope to the poor than government programs ever could (forgive me for forgetting the name or his exact quote).

That single admission explained how we ended up in the mess we find ourselves in today. Many people with Ivy League educations were dumfounded when the Great Society crashed and burned. How could their attempt to emulate the great FDR fail to achieve it's lofty objectives? But unfortunately, as Ronald Reagan once said, the only example of eternal life in this world is a government program. So we keep spending.

Left-wing professors in universities still blame the failures of the Great Society on Vietnam and passive resistance by republican congresses that refused to properly fund it, conveniently omitting the fact that trillions (with a T) have been spent on social programs over the decades. The Great Society is best summed up by a bumper sticker I once saw: "Motto of a government program: 'If it ain't broke we'll fix it till it is.' Unfortunately, a lot of treasure was put to use dousing out the flame of individual incentive that once made America exceptional. Now we are just Europe lite; another empire waiting to be taken down by the next group of eager beavers. I guess some things never change.

[cnic]

Mr. Sowell is the person in my mind who could go on so many "panels of experts" of today and, in his very chill yet concise and common sense manner, lay out information that could make all sides stop and ponder. I respect how he acknowledges his early political leanings and also that he went on for himself to make sure he really supports what he was leaning to while being willing to take the information at hand and change his stance to match what he had studied. It's his maturity that I respect and I pray more people use his information as a source of information that speaks to the root of matters. I guess it's his lack of political correctness that is a real attractant because while he isn't rude, he also isn't timid in saying what he needs to say. Prayers for Mr. Sowell and folks like him who go against the grain.

[joncarbone]

The welfare state made the state more powerful. Money wasted

[Arthur_King_of_the_Britons]

The effect has been the same in Britain. Once the most industrious nation in the world, now government dependence has become a way of life - with unhealthy people who do nothing in life but watch TV and collect their money for doing nothing

[johnprendergast]

Being 80, I have seen the damage Lyndon Johnson's policies have caused ..It's not a secret..