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To: i-node who wrote (785690)	5/20/2014 2:43:42 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1579330

>> How many blacks do you see getting rich off welfare? I bet you believe blacks aspire to being on welfare.... It isn't about black/white. It is animal nature. If you can get stuff for free, you're not going to work for it. Over time, it will become an expectation for a way of life. It is a tragic result of bad public policy: Achievement is stifled. There will always be people who want to game the system but the vast majority of people, and that includes blacks, want a better life. You don't get a better life by going on welfare. Whites in this country consistently take a subset of blacks and their qualities, and apply them to all blacks. Its just not true.........and that's from where the confusion and racism emanate. So you get terrible outcomes, but they're the creation of good intentions that worked out badly, which is the problem with most of these programs. The wasted lives are chronicled on A&E's The First 48, which documents murder investigations. One of the most astonishing, eye-opening things about this series -- which I've watched consistently since its inception -- is the lead in story of the victim. The number of black males murdered is something; but they normally say, "he was the father of #", where # is the number of children. The number of 25 year black males with 6 or 8 kids is just terrible. I bring this up because it is a result of a welfare state in which responsibility is not even in the vernacular. We've created generations of people who don't know what the word means. Its the result of a state that institutionalized racism for centuries and then continued with racism for decades afterwards. And yet you would rather blame it on the people, suggesting there is a flaw in their DNA, or blame it on welfare which is one of the most anemic social programs in the world. Its laughable what your income has to be to qualify for welfare and food stamps. And its even more laughable how little those programs boost one's income. It is tragic to me that LBJ, while getting laudable legislation of the Civil Rights Bill, at the same time created a welfare state that has enslaved blacks for generations to come. Dave, we do not have a welfare state. Its a figment of your imagination.