Once elected, Reagan cut a total of $140 billion from social programs, including the elimination of free school lunches for over one million poor children.
Yup, got to cut them school lunches!!! That'll fucking show them to have a work ethic!!!
In reality, Social welfare spending increased during Reagan's term, mostly because the guy fucked up the economy so badly that millions of people needed that Government Cheese.
You took that one excerpt without reading the whole article, of course.
Reagan shifted the responsiblity for social welfare programs from the Federal to the State government. This is what he called, New Federalism. He didn't just cut payments to the poor, he cut Middle Class entitlements as well, including his "Social Security Reform" that eliminated payments to college students with dead parents. (A program I benefited from briefly until it was cut. I didn't keep that money, I gave most of it to my mom so she could make ends meet.)
So ironically, by you, Reagan used white people's racist fears to get them to vote against their own economic interests, and dammit, it's black people's fault for being so "uppity"!
You really are a piece of shit, Hector.
The War in Vietnam pushed young people to the left. The black ghetto riots pushed older people to the right. They had thought that by supporting civil rights legislation they were buying racial peace. When they got five years of increasingly destructive black ghetto riots they felt betrayed.
Wow, you live in your own fantasy world, don't you? Just because older people weren't growing their hair long and smoking dope meant they thought Vietnam was a good idea. Nixon promised to end the war with a secret plan that was so secret even he didn't know what it was. Yes, older people were horrified by racial unrest, but they were also horrified by Mai Lai and the stream of flag-draped coffins that were coming home. Vietnam was unique in that it was first war broadcast into our living rooms.
Because there were no black ghetto riots of any significance during Nixon's first term the electorate rewarded him with a landslide victory over George McGovern.
Sweet Evil Jesus, it's like talking to a wall. I've TOLD you why Nixon won in a landslide in 1972. McGovern was a crank. His own running mate called his platform "Acid, Amnesty and Abortion" that middle America would never go for. (Ironically, all those things eventually came to pass.) Said Running mate had to then withdraw from the ticket after it was revealed he got electric shock treatments at the loony-bin.
The funny thing about Nixon is he kept buying the racial peace you whine about. He established most of the Affirmative Action programs that have you wetting your pants. He created the EEOC.
I have posted plenty of evidence that children raised to adulthood by both biological parents living together in matrimony tend to do better in life than other children.
So fucking what? No one should get married because of a kid, and no one should stay in an unhappy marriage because of a kid. Here's what happened. After Griswald and Roe, 'Unplanned pregnancy" became a thing of the past. If she failed to take her pills and could get an abortion, the man felt no need to marry her if he knocked her up.
I document most of my factual assertions. You disregard facts that contradict what you want to believe, make unfounded assertions. and rely mainly in insults and name calling.
You find crank information on the internet, ignore underlying factors such as institutionalized racism, and feel better about your own failed life because of your pale pigmentation.
New research led by a University of Georgia sociologist on the growth in the scope and scale of felony convictions finds that, as of 2010, 3 percent of the total U.S. population and 15 percent of the African-American male population have served time in prison. People with felony convictions more broadly account for 8 percent of the overall population and 33 percent of the African-American male population.
Which only shows how racist the "Justice" system is. White people get good lawyers. White people are let off with warnings by the police. The poor black addict gets prison time and the rich white addict gets rehab, often with glowing press if they happen to be a celebrity.
And the sad thing is, you are probably fine with this, because Jamal stuffed you into a locker and hurt your feelings once.