A vote for fathers.
Many of the problems that plague our society and that trap millions in inescapable poverty would largely solve themselves if the men who impregnate women would stick around to be fathers.
Tagged: poverty
Waiting for epiphany.
Any objective and sober analysis of readily observable facts reveals in stark, undeniable detail that liberalism destroys everything it touches.
California as Exhibit “A”
California has been run by liberal Democrats for a generation now and the results are undeniable.
Not doing the job.
If we had a properly functioning fourth estate there would be some honest, probing and thoughtful reporting on the serious issues that now confront American society.
Old issues. Old prescriptions.
For more than 50 years, the United States government, mostly but not completely at the behest of the Democrats, has been obsessed with two issues: poverty and minimum wage.
Want to reduce poverty? Reduce welfare.
If one does not have the means to provide for oneself, there are two ways to address the problem.
Facts don’t matter to liberals but facts matter.
No matter how high and how persuasive the mountain of readily available evidence that what they believe doesn’t work, liberals never question their own beliefs.
Moynihan had it right.
Since 1965, the United States has spent approximately $17 trillion on anti-poverty programs – an amount almost identical to the balance on the national debt. Yet poverty rates remain essentially unchanged.
The latest news from the “front.”
If the goal of the War on Poverty was to significantly reduce the proportion of the population living below the poverty line, one would have to say that so far the war is a draw.
On KFXK FOX51: Ben Franklin on wealth and poverty.
The amount of money expended by the federal government on anti-poverty programs since 1965 is almost exactly equal to the national debt, currently approaching $17 trillion.
The Great Society at 50.
Fifty years ago today, President Lyndon Johnson gave a speech at the University of Michigan in which he first proposed what he called the “Great Society.” So what of the Great Society on its 50th birthday? Sadly, there’s little to celebrate.
Of farmers and fathers.
The virtues of the American farmer as extolled by Paul Harvey in a commercial for Dodge trucks are the self-same virtues we look for in fathers – and for which there is no substitute when no father is around.