Some questions answer themselves

Ok - so I was reading an article about the intra-racial feud between the Rev. Jesse Jackson of the monochrome coalition and Barak Hussein Obama. Funny stuff. But, later in the article, came the following verbage:

"Roughly seven in 10 black children are born out of wedlock, according to government statistics. About 35 percent of blacks under 18 years old live below the poverty line, and 24 percent of blacks over 65 die below the poverty line.
The question of why such conditions have persisted through decades of social spending is the subject of vast academic research and is the veritable third rail of social debate."

It takes 'vast academic research'? Really? The reason those conditions still persist after decades of social spending? The reason IS 'decades of social spending'. We have wasted trillions of dollars on the 'great society' that Johnson envisioned. The spending has CAUSED many of the problems. It has solved none of them.

How can I say this? Let me draw an analogy to how you raise kids. What happens if you do everything for your kids? Give them things they did not earn? Expect nothing from them in return? Always make excuses for them? Treat them as if they are not capable of doing for themselves? You would raise kids that become dependent, with a sense of entitlement, limited motivation, and no sense of self respect.

We have done this to entire generations of welfare recipients. We have destroyed the inner citites. We send them the message that they need the government - that they are not able to do for themselves - and that they should EXPECT the government to bail them out. We tell them they should not be 'punished' for out of wedlock births. When did raising your own kids become 'punishment'? And when did your kids become my responsibility?

Look at the mess that happened in New Orleans with hurricane Katrina. You saw an entire city wondering when the federal government was going to bail them out. In Missippi - you saw everyone banding together to bail themselves out. New Orleans (and Louisiana) have been in Democatic (Liberal) hands for 100 years. Mississippi, on the other hand, was run by Republicans (Conservative). Coincidence? I think not.

But, you will hear the Democrats complain that we need to spend even more. When the real solution - we need to spend WAY less.

As I heard on the Radio - Liberals can never admit that their programs are failures. They only think they have not spent enough - or have not done it long enough.