08-25-2015, 03:32 PM
(08-25-2015, 02:42 PM)jakefromstatefarm Wrote: So with nearly 30 trillion spent on the war on poverty, and the amount of spending for HUD housing, head start, medicaid, food stamps, and the cost per student in many urban areas, and so many corporations operating with AA standards and quotas, just the same as many public universities, how is there still such a number of blacks that are poor?
Is there a social program that can force a kid to go to school?
Is there a social program that can force parents to care about their kids education, or not have children out of wedlock?
If there is, let me know. Until then, I'll continue to say that these programs are there to buy votes, keep people in perpetual poverty, and will continue to fail.
We incentivize people not to work. Great f'n plan.
I have been over this dozens of times with you, but you just refuse to address the truth.
The government has to take care of the losers in society because no matter how hard everyone works or how much education they get there will ALWAYS be a disadvantaged class with either no jobs or lower paying jobs.
You keep claiming that if everyone just worked harder then there would be zero povery or low paying jobs, and that is just a complete fantasy with no basis in reality.
The blacks started out behind white people and they have not yet caught up. The main reason has to do with intergenerational income elasticity. The fact is that one of the biggest facts that determines how much wealth a person will gain in the United States is how much wealth his parents had. The children of the wealthy have built in benefits of going to the better schools, having more access to technology, having more expansive cultural exposure, and (most importantly) having more social/family contacts to gain employment.
Making the poor suffer more will not make unemployment and low paying jobs disappear. All it will do is put a few pennies in your pocket.
