"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> On Sun 14 Sep 2008 06:10:38a, Dave Smith told us...
>>
>>> Orlando Enrique Fiol wrote:
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> First, nigs on welfare. Because
>>>>> these women can't seem to understand the concept of using birth
>>>>> control and because they appear all to eager to spread their legs to
>>>>> any Tom, Dick or Tyrone, our government is left footing the bill for
>>>>> the resulting future car thieves. A solution? Cut off all benefits
>>>>> after 1 year. Educate the ones who want it so they can find a real job
>>>>> and above all, keep up with current affairs in our nation's welfare
>>>>> program. There is no shortage of liberal ass polyps in suits out there
>>>>> lobbying for even more rights for these lazy sloths.
>>>> Contrary to your portrayal, most welfare recipients are actually single
>>>> white men. What would you suggest we do with them?
>>> This is not the first time I have seen someone make the claim that the
>>> most welfare recipients are white men. there by invalidating the common
>>> sense and anecdotal observation on the gender and race of welfare
>>> recipients as factually inaccurate and therefore false and racist.
>>>
>>> Many of them are neither men nor women. They are children. Five
>>> million of the 14 million people on welfare in the US are children. Of
>>> the adults, 38% are white, outnumbering African Americans who account
>>> for 37%. Technically there is a greater percentage of blacks on welfare
>>> than whites....1% more, but blacks make up only 12% of the population.
>>> Of the adults on welfare, 90% of them are women.
>>>
>>> In other words...... your claim that most welfare recipients are
>>> actually single white males is absolutely false.
>>>
>>> http://www.apa.org/pi/wpo/myths.html
>>>
>>
>> Whatever... Maybe it's time we imposed penalties on adult welfare
>> recipients and limited the number of children a welfare recipient could
>> have to 1, also limiting the benefits they could receive. What you can't
>> afford to have, you shouldn't have. It's no wonder there are so many
>> children on the welfare rolls. One of the things that irritates me most
>> is seeing an indigent family or single mother marching into the welfare
>> office with 8 kids in tow, because most of these people are unemployed by
>> choice or lack of even the most rudimentary skills, and have no desire to
>> work. With our present system they know they don't have to, yet they
>> keep popping out kids like it ws a hobby, and they know they'll receive
>> additional benefits for each child they have.
>>
>> There are some who are making every effort to pull themselves up by their
>> bootstraps and to work or actively seek employment. Unfortunately, they
>> seem to be in the vast minority.
>
> I don't know what the solution is. You can't let them starve, but I resent
> having to help support people who will not support themselves and those
> who cannot support themselves and then have more children than they cannot
> afford. I also resent the attempts to insinuate that those who point out
> the obvious are passed off as sexist and racist by claiming that most
> welfare recipients are single white men. The facts do not support that. In
> fact, it is the exact opposite.


I think if you wish to solve the problem you are going to have to reverse
the climate started by President Lynden Johnson. Although it created a
wonderful social safety net, it also unfortunately created a welfare culture
in some parts of our society. One could however argue it it had not been
Johnson someone else would have done the same.

Below is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Society

The Great Society was a set of domestic programs proposed or enacted in the
United States on the initiative of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Two main
goals of the Great Society social reforms were the elimination of poverty
and racial injustice. New major spending programs that addressed education,
medical care, urban problems, and transportation were launched during this
period. The Great Society in scope and sweep resembled the New Deal domestic
agenda of Franklin D. Roosevelt, but differed sharply in types of programs
enacted. Some Great Society proposals were stalled initiatives from John F.
Kennedy's New Frontier. Johnson's success depended on his persuasive skills,
coupled with the Democratic landslide in the 1964 election that brought in
many new liberals to Congress. Anti-war Democrats complained that spending
on the Vietnam War choked off the Great Society. While some of the programs
have been eliminated or had their funding reduced, many of them, including
Medicare, Medicaid, and federal education funding, continue to the present.
The Great Society's programs expanded exponentially under the
administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.[1]

Dimitri