Why I'm a conservative? #66

Because when I was liberal, I actually had enough self reflection to ask the question "what problems in the world have been solved by liberal ideas?" When I answered "0", I passed the first test in conservatism 101.

Consider the "War on Poverty"..............

Instead, editors of The Annals firmly declare that the main cause of poverty is “material deprivation itself.” In other words, the cause of poverty is poverty: The cure for poverty is to artificially boost the incomes of the poor through welfare payments, free food, housing, medical care, and so on.

This is nothing new. Liberals always have insisted that poverty causes dysfunctional behaviors rather than vice versa. But, if having a low income caused problem behaviors (such as illegitimate births and eroded work ethic), then most Americans in the 19th and early 20th centuries (whose incomes were far lower than those of today’s poor) should have been drowning in dysfunctional behaviors. Of course, they were not.

One of the goofier notions behind the War on Poverty is the idea that that those in the underclass behave differently than the middle class because they have less money — and, therefore, the way to improve behaviors is to give the poor more income. The U.S. already has “invested” over $15 trillion in anti-poverty spending based on this idea, and the problem has gotten markedly worse.

It just plain troubles liberals to forthrightly examine the behaviors that lead to poverty. Following tradition, The Annals’ experts tiptoe circumspectly around the main cause of child poverty today: the collapse of marriage.

In low-income communities, the overwhelming majority of children are born outside marriage and raised by single mothers on welfare. If these single mothers were married to the actual fathers of their children, two-thirds would immediately be lifted out of poverty. But, despite these obvious facts, the Left is reluctant even to mention the connection between marital collapse and poverty.

To illustrate this point further. I'd be willing to take the census of any prison in this country and for every inmate who came from an intact two parent family, I'll give you ten dollars. For every inmate with no father in the house, you give me $1.00.

Anyone want to take me up on it? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

"Progressives" like to spout how they rely on "science" when it comes to global warming but somehow seem to walk away from real science when it's tea bagging them right in the face.

You'd think one or two might change their mind by now.

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