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<blockquote data-quote="Lue C Fur" data-source="post: 844755" data-attributes="member: 25159"><p><span style="color: blue">I thought this was interesting:</span></p><p> </p><p>The other day, I went to Times Square to ask people what government should do to help poor people. Most everyone agreed on the answer: "more social programs and a higher <span style="color: #183a52">minimum wage</span>."</p><p>It's intuitive to think that way. I used to think that, too. When President Johnson declared a "war on poverty," he said "compassionate government" was the road to prosperity for poor people. That made sense to me. At Princeton, I was taught that government's central planners had the solution to poverty.</p><p>But then I watched them work. Government spent trillions of dollars on poverty programs, and the poverty level stayed stuck at about 12 percent of the population. It's stayed there for about 40 years.</p><p>Now I understand that that government poverty programs encourage people to stay dependent. There's money in it. They policymakers would have known this 25 years ago had they read "<span style="color: #183a52">The State Against Blacks.</span>" The author, an economist, said poverty programs destroy the natural mechanisms that have always enabled poor people to lift themselves out of poverty.</p><p>That author, who will be a guest on my Fox Business show, is Walter Williams of George Mason University. Williams, who is black, says "there's a huge segment of the black population for whom upward mobility is elusive, and it's because of the welfare state -- because of government."</p><p> </p><p></p><p>Read more: <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/06/02/is-government-aid-helping-or-hurting-blacks/#ixzz1O84lZSay" target="_blank">http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/06/02/is-government-aid-helping-or-hurting-blacks/#ixzz1O84lZSay</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lue C Fur, post: 844755, member: 25159"] [COLOR=blue]I thought this was interesting:[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] The other day, I went to Times Square to ask people what government should do to help poor people. Most everyone agreed on the answer: "more social programs and a higher [COLOR=#183a52]minimum wage[/COLOR]." It's intuitive to think that way. I used to think that, too. When President Johnson declared a "war on poverty," he said "compassionate government" was the road to prosperity for poor people. That made sense to me. At Princeton, I was taught that government's central planners had the solution to poverty. But then I watched them work. Government spent trillions of dollars on poverty programs, and the poverty level stayed stuck at about 12 percent of the population. It's stayed there for about 40 years. Now I understand that that government poverty programs encourage people to stay dependent. There's money in it. They policymakers would have known this 25 years ago had they read "[COLOR=#183a52]The State Against Blacks.[/COLOR]" The author, an economist, said poverty programs destroy the natural mechanisms that have always enabled poor people to lift themselves out of poverty. That author, who will be a guest on my Fox Business show, is Walter Williams of George Mason University. Williams, who is black, says "there's a huge segment of the black population for whom upward mobility is elusive, and it's because of the welfare state -- because of government." Read more: [URL]http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/06/02/is-government-aid-helping-or-hurting-blacks/#ixzz1O84lZSay[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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