Post by Jim on Feb 24, 2009 18:14:00 GMT -5
by Jake Morphonios
(conservative libertarian)
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
A series of social-welfare policies promulgated by President Lyndon Johnson were enacted in the 1960's and came to be known as the "Great Society". The intent of these programs was to eliminate poverty and racial injustice among the inner city poor. After 30 years, however, the result of these financial incentives has been the destruction of the traditional father-mother-child family unit among this demographic and the subjugation of millions of Americans to ghettoes, often rife with violence and crime.
By the 1970's the US government estimated that the skyrocketing costs of these social-welfare programs, which cost taxpayers trillions of dollars, would bankrupt the federal treasury. Politicians proposed myriad solutions but the entrenched welfare regime was not going to give up its power without a fight.
In the 1980's and early 1990's, the efforts of Presidents Reagan and Bush to reform welfare failed. Newt Gingrich and the Republican controlled Congress again tried to enact welfare reform, but it wasn't until President Bill Clinton joined in the fray that any substantive change occurred. Unfortunately, rather than reduce the welfare state, politicians greatly expanded it. The chief adjustment to the welfare system occurred under Title IV-D. The gravitational pull of the welfare bureaucracy had now sucked into its control middle and upper class Americans. If the welfare policies of the 1960's were disastrous, those of the 1990's were apocalyptic.
(conservative libertarian)
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
A series of social-welfare policies promulgated by President Lyndon Johnson were enacted in the 1960's and came to be known as the "Great Society". The intent of these programs was to eliminate poverty and racial injustice among the inner city poor. After 30 years, however, the result of these financial incentives has been the destruction of the traditional father-mother-child family unit among this demographic and the subjugation of millions of Americans to ghettoes, often rife with violence and crime.
By the 1970's the US government estimated that the skyrocketing costs of these social-welfare programs, which cost taxpayers trillions of dollars, would bankrupt the federal treasury. Politicians proposed myriad solutions but the entrenched welfare regime was not going to give up its power without a fight.
In the 1980's and early 1990's, the efforts of Presidents Reagan and Bush to reform welfare failed. Newt Gingrich and the Republican controlled Congress again tried to enact welfare reform, but it wasn't until President Bill Clinton joined in the fray that any substantive change occurred. Unfortunately, rather than reduce the welfare state, politicians greatly expanded it. The chief adjustment to the welfare system occurred under Title IV-D. The gravitational pull of the welfare bureaucracy had now sucked into its control middle and upper class Americans. If the welfare policies of the 1960's were disastrous, those of the 1990's were apocalyptic.
MORE:
framedfathers.blogspot.com/2009/02/great-custody-child-support-scam.html
