-the additional war on programs added after 1969 may not have been focused on the 'poor parents', but focused on the 'poor children'...like providing health care for the children in povety... which would benefit them, would not necessarily bring their parents out of poverty...
Yup.
We have basically accepted the fact that some people are no longer viable workers capable of making enough money to keep up with the economy.
So now we're simply hoping to mitigate the most pernicious effects of poverty on the children.
It helps, I suppose, but I don't think we're going after this problem in the right way.
People need to work even if their ability to contibute cannot produce enough profits to pay them a living wage.
Having at least one breadwinner in the family will do more to offset the mindset of entrenched poverty than all the daycare and free cheese and milk in the world.
But of course, those kids ALSO have to see that when their parents work, they make enough money to make working worth while.
And since they cannot make enough money to really make working a worthwhile endeavor, kids end up looking to drug dealing and crime as a potential career.
We reaping what we've sown because we've abandoned an entire classes of people, folks.
Their kids are NOT going away.
They're here and the are going to try to grab whatever they can even if it means they've got to break the law to do it.
Sooner rather than later we have got to learn the lesson that paying people a living wage, even if they economy says that work isn't worht a living wage is STILL CHEAPER overall for our society than putting people in prison.
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