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Skriven 2006-06-26 18:27:00 av LEE LOFASO (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av BOB KLAHN
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Hello Bob,

This post may be offensive to young minds...

>JM>Among other things, I'm getting real tired of my tax
>JM>dollars going to support people that can work but won't.

>BK>The day the government abandons the policy of putting people out
>BK>of work in favor of keeping people working, that might be a
>BK>point worth discussing.

>LL>The USA has never had a full employment policy/program.
>LL>But New Zealand does.  Specifics upon request.

BK>The democrats came up with such a plan something like 30 years
BK>ago.

Must have been George McGovern's guaranteed national income plan.

BK>Conservatives killed it.

For good reason.  McGovern's plan called for rewarding those who
chose not to work.  And why should conservatives want to reward
a bunch of lazy bums?

Russell Long came up with a better idea.  The Earned Income Tax
Credit, which rewarded *working* Americans.  Even Nixon approved.

BK>The welfare reform plan enacted under Clinton had a lot of
BK>aspects of that, but has been underfunded and is being largely
BK>abandoned by Bush.

Bill Clinton ended the AFDC program in 1996.  And poor black women
are still making babies.  As a result, instead of having little black
babies being well taken care of by loving parents, big black mamas
are selling crack to feed their kids.

The question is, what is the responsibility of society to those
children?  Should our society give money to poor black women so that
they can adequately care for their children?  Or should our society
refuse to help those who cannot help themselves?

The fact of the matter is that SOME FOLKS DO NOT WANT TO WORK.
Now, why should we make little black babies suffer just because
their parents do not want to work?  We say we do not approve
of slavery.  But forcing people to work would be slavery.
And doing nothing to help little black babies survive would
be genocide.  Or at least a form of genocide.

So what are we to do?  Should our society turn its back on big
black mamas?  Should our society turn its back on big black bucks,
more and more of whom wind up spending years, or even a lifetime,
in prison?  And what about those little black babies, who are
raised by single moms, not even knowing who their daddy might be?

Just what sort of a society are we?  Maybe we are not as kind
a society as we want to believe.

--Lee


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