But I Thought We Needed To Learn From The Past?
shamanic takes issue with Sister Toldjah’s post. Sister Toldjah is angry about the rioting in NOLA this past week. She was rightfully irked that a woman, living on our dime, had the nerve to say
Excuse me? As everyone that actually takes the time to study the subject knows, Sister is correct:
This is a direct result of the Great Society programs implemented by the Johnson administration in the mid 60s, programs that were put into place to “correct” problems that were exaggerated by the “enlightened” of the time, “problems” that were, in actuality, declining - no thanks to any major “help” from the federal government. The great Thomas Sowell wrote about this extensively in his 1995 book Vision of the Anointed, which should be required reading for any conservative who wants to truly learn how big of a failure Great Society programs have actually been. Hint: It’s much worse than you suspect.
The lesson to be learned went right over shamanic’s head. As he said:
I wasn’t alive in the 1960s. The issues that I’m concerned about are the issues of today. The advocacy I engage in is for the future, not to try to rewrite someone’s opinion of the past.
It’s no real surprise that young people have departed the GOP in droves lately. I’m 31, and I’d guess there are a lot of under-40s who can’t for the life of them figure out what the hell the GOP is all about these days. The 60s? That’s so… 1969.
If only the Great Society had ended in 1969! Maybe we wouldn’t have people like Sharon Jasper that bitch because we don’t give her enough. God forbid she should get a job that actually pays her and makes her dependent on herself rather than the government. The taxpayer’s have covered her expenses for 57 of her 58 years.
If only people like shamanic actually took the time to get to the root of a problem that began in the past, we may be able to solve some problems and hopefully prevent them from reocurring in the future.
I guess in the liberals mind, we should selectively learn from the past.
H/T to Memeorandum
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December 24, 2007 - 12:53 AM on December 24th, 2007
You do not need to tell me about it. I used to deliver big screen tvs and home theatre systems to the housing projects. What to hear a good one? As long as they were “renting” the item, it wouldn’t count against their eligibility for public housing. If they can afford $50 a week for a big screen and another $25 for a home theatre system to go with it, why are the tax payers paying the bulk of their housing and most (if not all) of their utilities? We were furnishing their entire two story rowhouses. $150+ a week in rent to the rent to own store, but only $300 a month for the public housing unit. We had people in public housing seriously gaming the system. One couple got a divorce when he got a job as a truck driver. He was taking in $50k but as long as they were divorced, she could claim that her only income was the child support and get the two story rowhouse rent free. As long as the tractor trailer wasn’t parked in front of the house from Monday morning to Friday afternoon, the housing authority wouldn’t know.
Here’s an outrage you probably don’t know about. There’s a national organization for public housing residents. They hold annual conventions, at taxpayer expense, in such business related destinations as San Juan, Puerto Rico to discuss how to squeeze the tax payers for even newer and fancier public housing units.
It’s time to start actually reforming the welfare system. It’s amazing how well it works when you tell people, either get a job or go hungry.
December 24, 2007 - 06:41 AM on December 24th, 2007
My reaction is the same, “Enough is enough!” Put the leaches in their projects and blow them up with the eyesores.
December 24, 2007 - 07:50 AM on December 24th, 2007
It used to be that one was considered poor when a family didn’t have decent clothes, enough food to eat, an outdated heating system, and no television or phone.
December 25, 2007 - 10:22 AM on December 25th, 2007
I worked for two different rent to own companies, one of which was located in a shopping center that was at the corner of a Hispanic Barrio and a Black Ghetto. On the third of every month, you’d see these 280+ lb women pushing shopping carts full of huge cuts of meat, 20-30 lb boxes of chicken, etc etc etc out of the grocery store. All of it paid for with food stamps. There was a Chinese restaurant and market owner who would hang out in the walkway between a couple of stores and buy foodstamps for 30 cents on the dollar. The police caught him and less than a week later, he was out there buying them again.
We had customers who were second and third generation welfare mommas. They would pop out a couple of puppies at 17 and 18 and go on the public dole for the rest of their lives. Am I the only one who sees this as a waste of potential as well as resources?
December 25, 2007 - 03:02 PM on December 25th, 2007
My sister lived in NOLA for about 15 years and told me about the entitlement subculture. As soon as the girls were old enough to reproduce, they’d get knocked up and pump out a few welfare whelps. That was their occupation, their entire future. To sit on their asses and collect freebies for raising the next generation of welfare recipients.
I don’t care what anyone says this is 100% wrong and is a large part of what is wrong in our society.
December 25, 2007 - 03:07 PM on December 25th, 2007
I looked at the “Newshoggers” website (shamanic link above). It’s your typical mentally-ill crap, one more of many wacko sites that spew the same contrived nonsense.
Anyone reading that carp and believing it is either hopelesslly ignorant or severely mentally ill.