The Myth of the Working Poor, page 1

Originally posted by edsinger
This puts forth a good argument about socialism and its failures, how government dependant people are not good for the people in which the politicians attempted to help in the first place.

Forty years ago a young, radical journalist helped ignite the War on Poverty with his pioneering book The Other America. In its pages, Michael Harrington warned that the recently proclaimed age of affluence was a mirage, that beneath the surface of U.S. prosperity lay tens of millions of people stuck in hopeless poverty that only massive government intervention could help.

Today, a new generation of journalists is straining to duplicate Harrington's feat?to convince contemporary America that its economic system doesn't work for millions and that only government can lift them out of poverty. These new journalists face a tougher task than Harrington's, though, because all levels of government have spent about $10 trillion on poverty programs since his book appeared, with disappointing, even counterproductive, results. And over the last four decades, millions of poor people, immigrants and native-born alike, have risen from poverty, without recourse to the government programs that Harrington inspired.

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Like Shipler, in other words, Lipper has reversed cause and effect. She sees social dysfunction in Pittsfield and blames it on poverty. But it typically is personal failure and social dysfunction that create poverty. To stay out of poverty in America, it's necessary to do three simple things, social scientists have found: finish high school, don't have kids until you marry, and wait until you are at least 20 to marry. Do those three things, and the odds against your becoming impoverished are less than one in ten. Nearly 80 percent of everyone who fails to do those three things winds up poor.

That's a crucial truth that left-wing social thinkers have tried to deny from the earliest days of the welfare-rights movement. And as these books show, even after the conclusive failure of the War on Poverty and the resounding success of welfare reform, they are still at it.

www.city-journal.org...

The thing that blows a 50 mile wide hole in points attempted to be made by people like Shipler, is this:

In America there is no left or right, or Republican or Democrat. All sides are controled by the exact same secret society (and since higher secret societies control lower level secret societies, then it's really societies.).

1. In America, the entire programs for the poor started in the Great Depression era. The majority of the poor (which led to the creation of welfare, and every other major progam for the poor) were white Americans.
The goverment on purpose never wrote into the laws when these programs are to end. Common sense would say, if they were created to help combat the Great Depression, then they should've been ended after the GD was over.

2. Skull and Bones Society.... Democrats and Republicans are both members of this same secret society. Dems and Repubs both take orders from the exact same leadership.
The societies involved in the secret societies who meet at Bohemian Grove in California. Republicans, and Democrats again are controled by the secret societies that meet at Bohemian Grove.

3. It was under Republican Prez, George Bush, that the worse ever immigration laws were passed/attempted to be passed - in the entire history of America. ANY illegal imigrant can come into the USA (if Bush continues to get his way), no questions asked. Any legal imigrant has to go on a waiting list and have tons of questions asked.

www.washtimes.com...

President Bush yesterday moved aggressively to resurrect his plan to relax rules against illegal immigration, a move bound to anger conservatives just days after they helped re-elect him.

4. Some members of this site posted on another forum that this entire site just needs 2 forums, with 2 threads. Why? Because the BIG, big, big, picture covers alllll these other little pictures. Including the imigration problem in America.
Clinton was one of the most Republican presidents in hostory (read Michael Moore's book about Clinton's voting record.)
Bush is doing things that goes 100% against what conservatives are suppose to stand for. (Like my example at the link I posted, showing how Bush is pushing the worse ever imigrant policy in American history!)

5. I'm an American citizen. BUT there's a ton of truth to one point legal and illegal imigrants make: That there are jobs Americans refuse to do. No matter how much they pay. "That's beneath me!" Americans will say. Even Bush himself stated this! Bush said American citizens are lazy, and refuse to work at the new jobs Republicans help create.