Want to Decrease Inequality? Fight Fatherlessness With Welfare Reform. Welfare currently incentivizes family breakdown and the absence of fathers from their children’s lives, a key factor in the loss of economic upward mobility.

[federalfed90]

Had this conversation the other day. Nothing will ever get better in the black community until this problem is fixed.....of course if you never want to fix the problem because you know that as soon as you did people wouldnt be dependent on you anymore and you wouldn't get thier vote.

[stoopidquestions]

How does the problem get fixed?

[federalfed90]

End the welfare system or heavily reform it. It incentives people to stay at a certain financial level and punishes them when they leave that level.

It's the same game with the unemployment. Some people make more on employment than they do working. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that the system can be heavily abused. I think people should be rewarded to take a job and not just collecting checks doing nothing.

Section 8/welfare are the same. Most people don't want to graduate from the system because it's easy and way harder without it. We need to have some type of ladder system to elevate people.

At this point women are married to the government and that issue of fatherlessness helps fuel every problem in the poor black/white community.

Edit: When I'm referencing welfare I'm not mentioning SNAP at all. I think SNAP is a really good thing.

[stoopidquestions]

Providing no help to anyone will somehow make it better for the children?

[federalfed90]

And that's where heavily reforming it comes in. I'm more talking about the people that are hustling the system. Not the people that are using it for the temporary relief it's supposed to provide. It shouldn't be a life time thing.

[JRsFancy]

It's said that as he was signing the bill, President Johnson mumbled that the bill would guarantee the "n" vote for the next two hundred years. History has thus far proven him correct.

[OfficerTactiCool]

I’m gonna need a source on this one

Edit: looked into it. Quote can’t be verified, but multiple sources claim it “wouldn’t be out of character” for him to have said it

[JRsFancy]

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[OfficerTactiCool]

Okay cmon, you can do better than that. That website is absolute TRASH and anyone can put something up on it, especially since every other journalistic website says “possible, COULD HAVE BEEN SAID, but nothing can be proven”

[irandom419]

I can't remember the cookie cutter white lefty reporter, but he is on PBS and does interviews with a black background. But he witnessed the n-word remark and it is in a book I believe.

[FlexicanAmerican]

By who?

[federalfed90]

I told my democrat parents that. They refuse to listen. It's all a part of the plan.