Looking at the current depression, how can we find better solutions for welfare reforms?
Ronald Reagan put a freeze on welfare in 1980 and it has steadily declined ever since. Many applauded this action and painted Ronald Regan a hero. At the same time in 1980 the country was faced with higher unemployment, the denied discovery of an epidemic called AIDS not to mention the newly created crack epidemic. All of these occurred in the 1980's
and the cost or impact to society was...
Let's look at the data:
http://www.bls.gov/tutorial/
This is just the tutorials pages but when you discover that you can find statistical information related to a particular year and what the costs are of having these events simultaneously occurring at approximately the same time. For instance 1980
If a young mother was on welfare in 1980.. The the drugs infiltrated (crack) not to mention the denial of aids, the ending of the war (Vietnam) and she was already in an impoverished state. What could the out come be? Now add in high crime, slums and slumlords, pimps, prostitution, and mis-education what will you get?
You will get a generation of children...
You will get a generation of grand-children...
So let's fast forward to today... 2009!
I have often wondered what ever happen to those blacks who invented or created anything that made humanity much better. As I looked at the many inventions I discovered a puzzling question... what happened to their children? Or their grand-children? Hmmmm, I thought what an interesting proposition, the lost children are they really lost? It's really scary to think that one of these children could be lost to poverty, how ironic... but as I've mentioned before in several conversation posts...
I have an IDEA! Based on probabilities, is that speculation or lumping in the good with the bad? How about the poor whites? Statistics show that evidenced as well (OK so you caught me napping) I'll just crawl back under my rock>>>>>