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1. task says:

   September 20, 2012 at 4:00 am

   I have a Jamaican friend who regrets having left her island home because, she feels, in America, we have lost our moral compass. Her daughter, at the age of nineteen, recently had a baby out of wedlock. The twenty-five year old father is responsible for four babies born among different women over a recent four-month period; he now lives with a thirty-one year old woman with eight children. In total he has fathered eleven children. He does not work yet wears designer pants and shoes and a gold chain bought via government checks from the women whose children he fathered. You can find his friends at the Affiliated Grocery store where they offer to use their government provided debit cards to buy your groceries at a fifty percent discount in return for cash. They often use that cash to buy drugs. The children of this man are temporarily placed within different locations where they cry for attention. Recently one baby was crying for eight hours before the mother determined the cause; the baby’s arm was broken. No one is married, they use drugs, they do not work and their children are given the same consideration as the puppies from the breeder mills that most thinking and caring people despise, yet many of these same thinking and caring people do not relate to this industry of child abuse in the same fashion or recognize its deeply rooted genesis within government programs that, sadly, are designed to help the poor yet accomplish the opposite.

   Which party is responsible for the fatherless matriarchal family? Which party is responsible for this devastating effect on child development? What party is responsible for creating a vast government plantation, where government resources abound, where the work ethic is discouraged and where self-sufficiency is represented by more and larger entitlements? And what party has institutionalized these conditions so that their politicians can rely on the votes of the very people that they victimize? This is the modern Democratic Party, the party of single moms, fatherless families, dependents, and damaged children. How did we ever survive in America before we attempted to prevent and cure poverty? Have we made it better or worse? Is it moral to continue down this path? And finally, what is wrong with being poor when you possess good values, principles and ethics? No amount of money can buy virtue so why would we pay to have it destroyed?

   When you have to damage so many children in order to shore up a voting base to enable the continuation of these deplorable circumstances something is not right. Something is very, very wrong.
2. task says:

   September 20, 2012 at 1:19 pm

   How about a quote from Ben Franklin:

   “I am for doing good to the poor, but…I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed…that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
3. task says:

   September 21, 2012 at 6:47 am

   If Angels were to dispense the taxpayer's money for benevolent purposes I might work to pay taxes before I would work for myself. Sadly the political class will use benevolence to further the conditions of those needing benevolent programs and thereby dispatch every remnant of human virtue from the souls of those poor recipients.