A life of government guarantees and controls is not a formula for building wealth by Star Parker. It's a quick read at this link-
http://www.urbancure.org/article.asp?id=3279&tag=
Star Parker is the founder and president of CURE, the Center for Urban Renewal Education, a 501(c)(3) non-profit think tank which promotes market based public policy to fight poverty.

Before involvement in social activism, Star Parker had seven years of first-hand experience in the grip of welfare dependency. Now, as a social policy consultant, Star is bringing new energy to policy discussions on how to transition America's poor from government dependency.

She is a sought after expert on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC and for national radio, television, and print interviews, nationwide.

Originally Posted by KatzPajamas

A life of government guarantees and controls is not a formula for building wealth by Star Parker. It's a quick read at this link-
http://www.urbancure.org/article.asp?id=3279&tag=
Star Parker is the founder and president of CURE, the Center for Urban Renewal Education, a 501(c)(3) non-profit think tank which promotes market based public policy to fight poverty.

Before involvement in social activism, Star Parker had seven years of first-hand experience in the grip of welfare dependency. Now, as a social policy consultant, Star is bringing new energy to policy discussions on how to transition America's poor from government dependency.

She is a sought after expert on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC and for national radio, television, and print interviews, nationwide.

Personal choices in life have a lot to do with outcomes, specifically considering that every person in the nation is offered a free public school education, and lowest-income students have far more access to public financial aid for college than do middle- and upper-middle class students.

Originally Posted by ilovetv

Personal choices in life have a lot to do with outcomes, specifically considering that every person in the nation is offered a free public school education, and lowest-income students have far more access to public financial aid for college than do middle- and upper-middle class students.

Ain't that the truth. I was just reading more of Star's articles...from the same website, subtitle to "Why Do Blacks Let Obama Off the Hook?" reads "Almost a half-century since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, too many blacks still don't want to be free and accept the responsibilities that go with it."
Last year I read her book "Uncle Sam's Plantation". Quite interesting also. She is someone whom I will support at every opportunity!

And don't forget the multitude of programs and help and benefits and $$$ poured into the pockets of illegal aliens....much of which legal Americans are not entitled to or have access to....

btk

Whatever happened to survival of the fittest?

Boy! I wish I was poor so I could get all that good stuff.

As stated in the Washington Post today:

There was a time, for example, that disaster relief money was a foregone conclusion. And yet here we are, in the wake of a hurricane that has devastated parts of New York and Vermont, being told by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) that disaster aid can come only after spending cuts. As Paul Krugman rightly notes, “In effect, Mr. Cantor and his allies are threatening to take hurricane victims hostage, using their suffering as a bargaining chip.”

Waynet -

You joke about that but there actually people with such wishes.

One of my former co-workers was a Vietnam vet and had both eardrums "blown out" from being too close to a big gun when it went off. He has to wear hearing aids in both ears and receives a sizable veterans compensation check each month. Another one of co-workers (also a Vietnam vet) actually said to him, "You sure are lucky to get all that tax-free money. Sure wish I had a disablility like that." Our friend said to him that he would gladly give back every bit of the compensation money if his hearing was restored.

Yep, some mighty strange people out there. Yes, I knew you were joking but thought you might enjoy the story.

Originally Posted by waynet

Boy! I wish I was poor so I could get all that good stuff.

Yes, no time in history has poverty been so luxurious. Today,poverty consists of color television, cell phones, food stamps, automobiles, free rent etc.,etc.
Sure is alot of incentives to get off the dole, huh?

Village Golfer,

If you think it would be fun to be poor, why not take a vacation and go to the Anacostia area in Washington DC, Cabrini Green in Chicago, East Los Angeles, or Ward 9 of New Orleans and stay in one of the local's apartments?

Live as they do for a month with them and then post a message saying how much fun you had.

Originally Posted by buggyone

Village Golfer,

If you think it would be fun to be poor, why not take a vacation and go to the Anacostia area in Washington DC, Cabrini Green in Chicago, East Los Angeles, or Ward 9 of New Orleans and stay in one of the local's apartments?

Live as they do for a month with them and then post a message saying how much fun you had.

Don't have to. I go to the supermarket and watch the poor buying steaks, beer, junk food etc. with my taxpayer money.

Village Golfer,

Live with them for a month and tell us how much you enjoyed it.

If you think it would be fun to be poor, why not take a vacation and go to the Anacostia area in Washington DC, Cabrini Green in Chicago, East Los Angeles, or Ward 9 of New Orleans and stay in one of the local's apartments?

Live as they do for a month with them and then post a message saying how much fun you had.

Put up or ...

Bugs.

I can repeat myself too.

Don't have to. I go to the supermarket and watch the poor buying steaks, beer, junk food etc. with my taxpayer money.


See, it is easy....

Originally Posted by villagegolfer

Don't have to. I go to the supermarket and watch the poor buying steaks, beer, junk food etc. with my taxpayer money.

I happen to know that there are many people that have figured the way to beat the system. They are not poor but they are lazy. They know every trick in the book to get on these welfare plans and live a reasonably good life.

True they are taking away from the true poor but since it is so easy they take advantage of it.

Originally Posted by zcaveman

I happen to know that there are many people that have figured the way to beat the system. They are not poor but they are lazy. They know every trick in the book to get on these welfare plans and live a reasonably good life.

True they are taking away from the true poor but since it is so easy they take advantage of it.

45,183,931: The number of Americans receiving food stamps as of June 2011, only the second month in history with more than 45 million food stamp recipients. Today, 14.5 percent of Americans receive food stamps, an increase of 40 percent since President Obama took office.


Apparently this regime in the White House has made it easier to get food stamps since it has increased 40% since Obama took office