Dave Smith > wrote in
:
> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> On Sun 14 Sep 2008 06:10:38a, Dave Smith told us...
>>
>>> Orlando Enrique Fiol wrote:
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> First, nigs on welfare. Because
>>>>> these women can't seem to understand the concept of using birth
>>>>> control and because they appear all to eager to spread their legs
>>>>> to any Tom, Dick or Tyrone, our government is left footing the
>>>>> bill for the resulting future car thieves. A solution? Cut off all
>>>>> benefits after 1 year. Educate the ones who want it so they can
>>>>> find a real job and above all, keep up with current affairs in our
>>>>> nation's welfare program. There is no shortage of liberal ass
>>>>> polyps in suits out there lobbying for even more rights for these
>>>>> lazy sloths.
>>>> Contrary to your portrayal, most welfare recipients are actually
>>>> single white men. What would you suggest we do with them?
>>> This is not the first time I have seen someone make the claim that
>>> the most welfare recipients are white men. there by invalidating the
>>> common sense and anecdotal observation on the gender and race of
>>> welfare recipients as factually inaccurate and therefore false and
>>> racist.
>>>
>>> Many of them are neither men nor women. They are children. Five
>>> million of the 14 million people on welfare in the US are children.
>>> Of the adults, 38% are white, outnumbering African Americans who
>>> account for 37%. Technically there is a greater percentage of
>>> blacks on welfare than whites....1% more, but blacks make up only
>>> 12% of the population. Of the adults on welfare, 90% of them are
>>> women.
>>>
>>> In other words...... your claim that most welfare recipients are
>>> actually single white males is absolutely false.
>>>
>>> http://www.apa.org/pi/wpo/myths.html
>>>
>>
>> Whatever... Maybe it's time we imposed penalties on adult welfare
>> recipients and limited the number of children a welfare recipient
>> could have to 1, also limiting the benefits they could receive. What
>> you can't afford to have, you shouldn't have. It's no wonder there
>> are so many children on the welfare rolls. One of the things that
>> irritates me most is seeing an indigent family or single mother
>> marching into the welfare office with 8 kids in tow, because most of
>> these people are unemployed by choice or lack of even the most
>> rudimentary skills, and have no desire to work. With our present
>> system they know they don't have to, yet they keep popping out kids
>> like it ws a hobby, and they know they'll receive additional benefits
>> for each child they have.
>>
>> There are some who are making every effort to pull themselves up by
>> their bootstraps and to work or actively seek employment.
>> Unfortunately, they seem to be in the vast minority.
>
> I don't know what the solution is. You can't let them starve, but I
> resent having to help support people who will not support themselves
> and those who cannot support themselves and then have more children
> than they cannot afford. I also resent the attempts to insinuate
> that those who point out the obvious are passed off as sexist and
> racist by claiming that most welfare recipients are single white men.
> The facts do not support that. In fact, it is the exact opposite.
>
professional people have children who usually become professional people.
Parents who have been to college usually have children who go to college.
Smokers children usually smoke. Welfare babies usually go on welfare. This
isn't 100% true but true enough.
The idea is to break this cycle in welfare recipience. It is a well known
cycle...the problem is the fix hasn't been found yet.
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The beet goes on -Alan