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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: KyrosL who wrote (175029)11/1/2011 3:14:16 AM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) of 541376
 
"For example, some Great Society programs to help the poor have resulted in the virtual disintegration of poor families and brought about terrible suffering to the people they were supposed to help. The liberal mentality of throwing money at social problems have many times terrible unintended consequences. "

I agree with this. My first maintenance job was working on public housing (the "projects"). In some of the units, they were on their third generation of public housing dwellers, each generation teaching the next how to score the living units, welfare, food stamps, etc. The men couldn't live with the women - in order to get the housing and all the benefits, the women had to have several kids with no husband. Each child was another check..

These largely were people who could have worked, but chose not to, or had never learned how to get along in life by working. They had learned how to game the system.

This isn't happening anymore, since Clinton and the (R)'s ended "welfare as we know it".
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