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THE AMERICAN DREAM OR THE AMERICAN NIGHTMARE?
DALLAS — At least eight people were hurt Thursday morning while scrambling to line up for a limited number of Dallas County rental vouchers — after waiting for hours in their cars.
joinamerica1 said on July 14, 2011 at 4:56 PM
The War on Poverty began 50 years ago. And we have spent 16 TRILLION taxpayer dollars to help our fellow Americans. And what have we created? We have families where no family member has had a job for 3 generations. There are able bodied people who have never had a job and who have no intention of ever getting a job. And people who have lived in housing projects for 50 years. I've had the experience as several other posters have, of watching people at the market paying with food stamps for all sorts of expensive food (and convenience food) that I could never afford to buy. (And in the most recent experience, the couple was white, as am I). The politicians are using our money to buy votes. The media is so sure that we are all a bunch of selfish bigots (obviously we are not) that they will not publicize the waste, fraud, corruption and inefficiency of the welfare system for fear that there will be a voter backlash. So on and on it goes. By the way, today the races are even more divided.
said on July 14, 2011 at 4:19 PM
Here is the cultural issue; Black people historically have had higher rates of poverty than other ethnicities, clearly racial issues caused a lot of this... up until more recently (lots of improvement...not there yet.. as made clear by comments below) but I digress... Because of the "nanny state" and the government feeling obligated to give handouts to the impovrished, makes these groups of people not NEED to go out and do anything about it. Hell, if I could get away with not having to work and get my food (food stamps), housing (section 8) and minimal monetary income (welfare) and make some money off the books, I might not want to go out and work either. What incentive is there to go out and dig yourself out when you're not really in that bad of a place. Thats what makes this a generational problem, not the race of people, but the position many of these people are in and the method that the government uses to deal with it.
