1.Many well intentioned folks endorse Liberalism without fully understanding what it entails, or its provenance. Not any one piece, but let me show you who you are in the entirety
and you may see why those of us on the right tend to sit agape when you mouth your doctrines.
2. Gareth Davis, a liberal fellow, wrote in From Opportunity to Entitlement, the transformation of traditionally New Deal liberalism to the current doctrine of entitlement welfarism, during which notions of self-help and personal independence largely disappeared from liberal discourse In their place came radical notions of income by right, The new chorus among activists and the liberal elite was to denigrate anyone who made demands on the poor.
Gareth Davis, From Opportunity to Entitlement, p.3.
a. Entitlement liberalism abandoned the link between work and income.
3. James Coleman identified the style as conspicuous benevolence, designed to advertise, as ostensibly as possible, ones egalitarian intentions. James Coleman, Address to the National Association of Scholars, June 19, 1990.
4. A white Boston sociologist, William Ryan, went far further, claiming that any suggestion that the poor bore any responsibility for their plight was a form of blaming the victim in fact, his book had that very title. For liberals like Ryan, if one can point to racism, well, then, one need never bear the consequences of ones deeds: drop out of school? Refuse to hold a job? Father illegitimate children? The guilty party was anyone who did not embrace his position.
a. Poverty, Ryan insisted, had nothing to do with character, skills, or, in fact, any characteristic of the poor themselves.
b. Imagine the Ryan response when James Colemans work of social research identified family background as the single most important factor in educational success. He said Is this or is this not a clear case of blaming the victim?
5. Welfarists, such as Richard Elman, went so far as to declare that concern about the negative effects of dependency was a mere bogeyman, and he insisted that no one should be made to feel bad for feeding at the welfare trough. The very idea of personal responsibility was considered to be discriminatory. He argued that we must make dependency legitimate so dependents could consume with integrity.
a. Advocates sneered at the idea that the poor should be steered toward gainful employment, rather than welfare it was wrong to push the poor into dead end jobs.
b. Elman actually indicted as narrow-minded, those who wanted the poor to go the hard route, to be taxi drivers, restaurant employees and factory hands .the northern equivalent of the forced labor and debt bondage of the South.
6. The Columbia poverty intellectuals, Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, wanted to sever the connection between economic effort and outcome; they wanted, instead, to guarantee a high lever of living as a matter of right. They said not enough people were on welfare. Actually their plan was to overload and bankrupt the system, forcing a fundamental realignment of the nations economy.
a. Sound familiar? In fact, since
President Obama took office, federal welfare spending has increased by 41 percent, more than $193 billion per year . In fact, the dramatically larger increase also suggests that part of the programs growth is due to conscious policy choices by this administration to ease eligibility rules and expand caseloads. For
example, income limits for eligibility have risen twice as fast as inflation since 2007 and are now roughly 10 percent higher than they were when Obama took office.
Casey B. Mulligan: The Sharp Increase in the Food Stamps Program - NYTimes.com
and http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/PA694.pdf
b/ Seems that in liberal orthodoxy, welfare is more desirable than work.
Some of above from Charles J. Sykes, A Nation of Moochers.
So, my "Liberal" colleagues....these are the ideas and the folks to which you are wedded.
Bet lots of you say 'I don't agree with all of that..."
You might want to rethink the marriage...
2. Gareth Davis, a liberal fellow, wrote in From Opportunity to Entitlement, the transformation of traditionally New Deal liberalism to the current doctrine of entitlement welfarism, during which notions of self-help and personal independence largely disappeared from liberal discourse In their place came radical notions of income by right, The new chorus among activists and the liberal elite was to denigrate anyone who made demands on the poor.
Gareth Davis, From Opportunity to Entitlement, p.3.
a. Entitlement liberalism abandoned the link between work and income.
3. James Coleman identified the style as conspicuous benevolence, designed to advertise, as ostensibly as possible, ones egalitarian intentions. James Coleman, Address to the National Association of Scholars, June 19, 1990.
4. A white Boston sociologist, William Ryan, went far further, claiming that any suggestion that the poor bore any responsibility for their plight was a form of blaming the victim in fact, his book had that very title. For liberals like Ryan, if one can point to racism, well, then, one need never bear the consequences of ones deeds: drop out of school? Refuse to hold a job? Father illegitimate children? The guilty party was anyone who did not embrace his position.
a. Poverty, Ryan insisted, had nothing to do with character, skills, or, in fact, any characteristic of the poor themselves.
b. Imagine the Ryan response when James Colemans work of social research identified family background as the single most important factor in educational success. He said Is this or is this not a clear case of blaming the victim?
5. Welfarists, such as Richard Elman, went so far as to declare that concern about the negative effects of dependency was a mere bogeyman, and he insisted that no one should be made to feel bad for feeding at the welfare trough. The very idea of personal responsibility was considered to be discriminatory. He argued that we must make dependency legitimate so dependents could consume with integrity.
a. Advocates sneered at the idea that the poor should be steered toward gainful employment, rather than welfare it was wrong to push the poor into dead end jobs.
b. Elman actually indicted as narrow-minded, those who wanted the poor to go the hard route, to be taxi drivers, restaurant employees and factory hands .the northern equivalent of the forced labor and debt bondage of the South.
6. The Columbia poverty intellectuals, Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, wanted to sever the connection between economic effort and outcome; they wanted, instead, to guarantee a high lever of living as a matter of right. They said not enough people were on welfare. Actually their plan was to overload and bankrupt the system, forcing a fundamental realignment of the nations economy.
a. Sound familiar? In fact, since
President Obama took office, federal welfare spending has increased by 41 percent, more than $193 billion per year . In fact, the dramatically larger increase also suggests that part of the programs growth is due to conscious policy choices by this administration to ease eligibility rules and expand caseloads. For
example, income limits for eligibility have risen twice as fast as inflation since 2007 and are now roughly 10 percent higher than they were when Obama took office.
Casey B. Mulligan: The Sharp Increase in the Food Stamps Program - NYTimes.com
and http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/PA694.pdf
b/ Seems that in liberal orthodoxy, welfare is more desirable than work.
Some of above from Charles J. Sykes, A Nation of Moochers.
So, my "Liberal" colleagues....these are the ideas and the folks to which you are wedded.
Bet lots of you say 'I don't agree with all of that..."
You might want to rethink the marriage...
