Rick Santorum said he doesn't want to "make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money."
Which he followed up by saying that he wants to give them the opportunity to go out make money and earn a living. Anyway, there's a huge hidden assumption that giving blacks money has made their lives better or will make their lives better. Plenty of indicators point to the exact opposite. Santorum's comments sound remarkably like Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell. 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. - Walter Williams The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to "help." - Thomas Sowell* * Just out of curiosity, how would it go over if a candidate came out and said "I want to make black people's lives better by taking more tax money and creating more entitlement programs. There is no need for blacks to have the same opportunity to earn a living or make their lives better because I can do it for them."? - Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it - Thomas Sowell One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain - Thomas Sowell ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:345130 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
