What do the nation’s poorest cities have in common?
in the late afternoon on Saturday, the 30th of August 2008 by Katie
They have elected Democratic Mayors for over a half a century.
So, why do people keep on pushing the same button, when the outcome is always a negative one? I’m betting that many of these voters are on the crack pipe of welfare.
And our founding fathers knew this one. As Ben Franklin said: “I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty but leading them or driving them out of it.”
How is it that we realized this at the founding of our nation, but have completely forgotten this lesson less than 250 years later? Any mom knows that if you reward bad behavior, you get more of the same. But, isn’t that what we are doing, as a nation?
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August 30th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
So why do they continue to back dems? well gee the media certainly works so hard at burying facts like this.. how on earth are the poor dumb souls going to realize their errors.. other than the obvious of, duh.. stop choosing the same shmucks!.. sigh!
welfare.. a side effect of the depression era that i do believe is long since over.. but some reason the welfare lives on.. they are raised from birth knowing how to milk it.. they know more how to get unemployment than they know how to fill out a job app.. how sad is that?
Great item.. thank you for finding and sharing!
August 30th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
I had read this story a few days ago and really wanted to post on it but brain wandered off and forgot.
But it’s a great story and just goes to show that people truly have no idea what is best for them.
August 30th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Katie you saves Chad’s mind again.. it often wanders off.. and somehow you find his thoughts and post them.. thank you (they are always REALLY good ones too)
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Of course they keep electing them back into office…they are desperately uninformed and the public education system seems quite literally to be pushing socialist agendas to children…growing more dependence on big government and so the cycle continues…good stuff…create dumb consumers…then sap the very people that are trying to make something of thier lives and hand it over to the “poor”…or rather…lazy in my opinion…and you get what can only be referred to as…vote buying…
Just my 2 cents worth…hehe
September 4th, 2008 at 4:32 am
One thing that really peeves me off is that our politicians use our tax dollars to buy votes.
And public education - don’t get me started. I am a mom of 3, who are in the public education system. I was horrified with what I saw our first year in the system. Perimeter walks around the campus, during recess (recess is no longer the unorganized fun time that we remember), counting the miles walked on a big map, they were walking to Iraq, with the proclaimed intention of bringing our troops home (this was 2005). Gee, no bias there, huh?
And the truly sick thing is that a good education is the only way out for kids raised in poverty. And we are failing miserably there. Biased teachers, feel good teaching, tenured teachers, rewards for a bad product… And that is just the schools. The parents are as much to blame. Until the parents realize that the only way “out” for their kids is education, there is little hope. And these parents aren’t dumb. They know how to work the system. They get food stamps, welfare, they have their children labeled as handicapped, so that they can get better benefits…
Gee, am I completely off topic now, or what?
September 5th, 2008 at 8:38 am
no…not off topic…just that the topic in question has so many different facets to it…it’s hard to stay with one thought without creeping into another very related one…lol