Quote:Come on, man. You act as though that happened in a vacuum. It didn't. I bet supply side economics has more to do with these issues than welfare and social programs...


It's just too easy to blame it all on LBJ....


These issues are more complex than that...

We had supply side economics long before the 60's even during segregation which was a horrible obstacle for minority families you still had core families and far less crime. It wasn't until the incentive of a strong family was removed that we began to see the erosion of a strong family core. Note this isn't exclusive to minority families either it holds true across all ethnicities that broken homes on average hold a higher chance of poverty.


That's the point the article is trying to drive home it is the broken homes dependent on welfare instead of a core family that is a correlation to high crime and cycles of poverty.


It is a complex issue but I'd argue at the core one reality holds true, welfare as it is today has created a cycle of dependency that is extremely difficult to get out of. It punishes the ones that attempt to climb the economic ladder and rewards those that remain stagnant.

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