Chronicles of the Brain Police featuring the Further Adventures of Brother Barry in
WARS: ON POVERTY
The War on poverty has always been credited by the late President Lyndon Johnson. However, we can always take it back further to the FDR policies of the 30's and the beginning of the govt interference of American life. This is America’s longest running war. Now, let me say this in defense of these policies in that not all of them are failures, but most assuredly all of them have not quite panned out for the monies spent on them. In short, the American taxpayer has come up on the short end of the economic spectrum here. All the while a complete segment of society has been torn apart by insane govt intrusions with the federal welfare system. And now Brother Barry wants to revisit this land of “milk and honey” for all.
The War On Poverty is officially in it’s forties now. What have Americans gotten for the trillions “invested” in this war? Well, we have grown a segment of society that has at least two generations living on the federal dole. Yes, most of them are black and living in the urban areas of the country. However, the very govt that offers to help them out is the same govt that tells them they are “victims” because they are black. Hmm, I guess certain black icons like Ray Charles, Gen. Colin Powell (retired), Langston Hughes, Justice Clarence Thomas, former Sec of State Condoleeza Rice, Sidney, Portier, and many, many more never would have made it with out govt intrusion in the lives. I wonder why so many more have not made it out of the ghetto because of welfare???
The War on Poverty has done nothing for American society except tear up the poorest of the poor and make indentured slaves of these people. What LBJ had started in the 60's was expanded in the 70's by Nixon. In other words, this is truly a bipartisan failure of a huge magnitude. Who thought is was a great idea to penalize families on welfare for having fathers in the household??? Single mothers were basically paid to have babies out of wedlock, and some of them did their duty to the state and made a nice income just by being a baby factory. In other words, the traditional mother/father dichotomy was replaced with the state as the father figure. No wonder we now have young adults with no direction in life. The state never provided that other part of parenting...the male part.
The War on Poverty has stolen form the poor and given to the wealthiest by way of govt intrusion. The govt has laid out so many programs on helping people that are not working to find a job. Great idea, but wrong approach. The best approach is still instilling these people that they can do anything they want and succeed. Most of these programs, past and present, rehash the same old crapola of learning to get a minimum wage job so they can be a wage earner. Fine and dandy, but how about instilling into them that no matter where they start they can move up the corporate ladder for success in their wallets and in life. Instead of “victimhood” how about a little desire to succeed instead???
The War on Poverty is a lesson in failure. It is an economic disaster in that we got damn little return for the money spent. It is a moral failure in that we have encouraged out of wedlock babies born for welfare dollars. It is also an American failure because all we have done is put people back in volunteered slavery because they cannot leave the plantation.. So, why is Brother Barry wanting to return to the glory years of the 60's and 70's and this truly American failure??