Do we want to get our people
off welfare and entitlements associated with welfare? Do we desire those in our
population who are physically/mentally capable of working to be productively
employed? The traditionalist among us would answer in the affirmative. The
liberal, not so much.
Bottom line; the American welfare
system is a shell of what it was intended to be. It is broke. Behaviorist, B.F.
Skinner once stated; “A behavior followed by a reinforcing stimulus results in
an increased probability of that behavior occurring in the future.” In short,
if you want someone to continue a behavioral pattern, reward it. Simplifying
it, what gets rewarded gets done. Apparently, our government and those
progressive partisan political party’s/organizations who feed off welfare
recipients found this works in the political and social arenas. The current
welfare policies/programs are not promoting the collective good but furthering
their own ideological interests. That interest is political power.
While researching this post,
I learned that minorities, most of which are black – who today vote 90-95
percent Democrat – until the 1960s voted overwhelmingly Republican. The reason?
Simple. Democrats would not permit them to vote. However, in the 1960s, a
radical shift occurred. Blacks who had voted prodigiously for Republicans now
shifted to the Democratic Party, and the American media were primarily
responsible.
The truth is, Republicans
voted for both the Civil Rights Bill in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act in 1965
by much larger margins than the Democrats. However, as they were both signed
into law by Lyndon Johnson, a Democrat who had no choice but to sign the bill,
the national media parlayed that into a dramatic change of form within the
Democratic Party from that of actual segregationists into liberal rights
activists. One thing led to another over time, and the following scenario now
becomes a prime example of this mentality.
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