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To: Neocon who wrote (453524)	9/6/2003 1:18:44 AM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Good find Neocon. I am not surprised that welfare entitlement adds to the illegitimacy numbers. When you add in money as a plus then, all other things remaining equal, the pressure will likely produce more babies for those with, or seeking, entitlements. That fact does not, however, justify the following exaggerated claim by Coulter: >>"The War on Poverty took a crisis-level illegitimacy rate among blacks in the mid-1960s (22 percent) and tripled it to 69 percent. It transformed a negligible illegitimacy rate among whites (2 percent) to emergency proportions (22.5 percent)"<< That's why I challenged your endorsement of her column in the following paragraph: >>"I'll regain a lot of respect for your ability to think objectively if you can give me a rationale for how the Johnson "war on poverty" primarily caused the illegitimacy rate for whites and blacks to skyrocket. By the way, don't forget the sexual, social revolution if you try to take this one on."<< As I said in a previous post, her use of this issue to attack democrats as a whole is diabolically clever. Illegitimacy raises minefield issues of ethical, moral, religious and economic natures. Her attribution of "skyrocketing" rates of illegitimacy to further polarize conservatives and liberals by subliminal means is bad logic, in bad taste and bad for America. At some point we'll all have to grow up and realize that our similarities far outweigh our differences and that we all share common beliefs, hopes, and desires. Those that polarize, radicalize and separate us to play on our differences for economic, political and personal gain are the true enemies of us all. I list Coulter among that group and I would cite her article as a good example of the technique she uses.