01-18-2017, 04:17 PM
Something else to say about race and welfare -- most people getting welfare are white.
There are plenty of messed-up people, and the drug epidemic (especially meth and opiates) will only aggravate the need for welfare -- barring of course some sort of genocide. Where I live, the dopers are almost exclusively white even though there is a rapidly-growing Hispanic population. Just imagine what dope does to one's ability to hold a job. Just imagine what growing up with doper parents is like. It's hard to trust even well-meaning authority when parents are horrible role models who get taken away by the Big Blue Meanies (the cops) for drug offenses and something that often goes with drugs -- child abuse.
Dopers are of course mixed-up people, which is not to say that they didn't have problems before they started using drugs. Just imagine the harm their kids get. Will the kids have healthy attitudes for learning good habits and applying themselves to even the most menial of work?
The labor market has become more demanding at every level of skill, and in view of the ultimate competition that Americans will face (not cheap labor in other countries, but robots), there will be need for welfare. We may need the cradle-to-grave welfare system that America has evaded even more than we now think.
There are plenty of messed-up people, and the drug epidemic (especially meth and opiates) will only aggravate the need for welfare -- barring of course some sort of genocide. Where I live, the dopers are almost exclusively white even though there is a rapidly-growing Hispanic population. Just imagine what dope does to one's ability to hold a job. Just imagine what growing up with doper parents is like. It's hard to trust even well-meaning authority when parents are horrible role models who get taken away by the Big Blue Meanies (the cops) for drug offenses and something that often goes with drugs -- child abuse.
Dopers are of course mixed-up people, which is not to say that they didn't have problems before they started using drugs. Just imagine the harm their kids get. Will the kids have healthy attitudes for learning good habits and applying themselves to even the most menial of work?
The labor market has become more demanding at every level of skill, and in view of the ultimate competition that Americans will face (not cheap labor in other countries, but robots), there will be need for welfare. We may need the cradle-to-grave welfare system that America has evaded even more than we now think.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.