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Thursday, May 5. 2016

How The Liberal Welfare State Destroyed Black America


It was that old Law of (Unintended?) Consequences: What Democrat voters and political leaders refuse to believe


Well, they do believe it but only Moynihan was willing to say it out loud. The real goal was achieved: Generations of Dem voters hooked on dependency, uselessness, and hopelessness. Of course, that applies not only to African-Americans. There are far more white than black people in that category.


However, there were no dysfunctional black urban ghettos before Johnson's Great Society eliminated poverty and hopelessness.

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"Of course, that applies not only to African-Americans. There are far more white than black people in that category."

And unfortunately, becoming more and more each day. At some point the whole structure collapses because the productive people can no longer carry all those on the dole or otherwise getting government benefits. Add in all the Boomers retiring and those who are out of the work force permanently because of the bad economy, and now the ever-growing costs of Obamacare and the collapsing healthcare system, and you have a looming disaster on your hands.
#1 Jim on 2016-05-05 16:57 (Reply)
Yes indeed. In my corner of rural Nebraska, having illegitimate children has become a career choice for some girls coming out of high school. It's all about collecting the benefits and has been going on for some years now.
#1.1 feeblemind on 2016-05-05 19:30 (Reply)
Moynihan may have seen the problem but he never once voted to derail the Democrats policy directions. Under LBJ he formulated a good deal of the "War on Poverty" which could just as well been called the war on symptoms. Poverty is a symptom and treating symptoms is something only a social scientist would attempt. An actual scientist would treat the disease. And here we are 50 years later still treating the symptoms.
#2 indyjonesouthere on 2016-05-05 20:19 (Reply)
I think there were dysfunctional black urban ghettos before Johnson. Harlem 1948, at least. And with riots coming thick and fast 1964, 65, 66, 68 I'm not sure that can be laid at the feet of Great Society programs, which had barely gotten under weigh.

Granting that what we have done has been a horrible and cruel failure, I don't see a model elsewhere in the world that has been successful for black people that we can emulate. We speculate what should have worked, but we don't actually know.
#3 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2016-05-05 22:41 (Reply)
Not dysfunctional, as I have read.

Poor, yes, but productive. Thos Sowell writes about growing up in Harlem.
#3.1 Bird Dog on 2016-05-06 10:32 (Reply)
I chose Harlem 48 specifically because of the riots.

I don't see Great Society causing riots so much as stemming from the same world-view. Co-occurring.
#3.1.1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2016-05-06 10:40 (Reply)
"However, there were no dysfunctional black urban ghettos before Johnson's Great Society eliminated poverty and hopelessness."

Life for the black population of the US being near idyllic prior to 1964 of course.
#4 JJM on 2016-05-07 07:57 (Reply)

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