08-16-2016, 08:15 PM
(08-16-2016, 07:59 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: Lyndon Johnson thought it was a wonderful Idea to give Single moms free welfare if they didn't know who the baby daddy was.....
This has worked out to be a major downfall of the African Americans. The majority of the kids have no idea who their daddy is. The problem is that he Penalized the mother's income if they married, so this led to many women not marrying in order to maximize their benefits and become Welfare Queens.
So yes, there is proof that a social program helped destroy their family unit. is it the sole reason? No, but a pretty big one.
1. Lyndon Johnson never felt is was a good idea to give welfare to single mother only if they did not know who the father was. That is a complete lie.
2. Single black mothers did not plan and aspire to be welfare queens. That is another complete lie.
3. The payments to single mothers were the same for both white women and African Americans. It just happened that black men were so far behind white men in average wages that they were not as able to support children as white men.
You can't blame a social program for creating poverty when the poverty was there before the social program. The fact is that these social programs have greatly improved the economic condition of many African Americans. They moved out of poverty at a much higher rate than poor white people from 1940 through 1970. But since the 70's middle class wages have been stagnate for both blacks and whites.
I wonder what Bfine would say about the "intent and motivation" of Mike M's comments?
