| Have you read about the corrosive effects of welfare on black communities? No. I have read about welfare reducing poverty. I'm sure you have, too. Have you ever joined in complaining about the inability of public school systems to successfully adapt and harness changing technologies? No. I have read about public schools outperforming private charter schools. Have you noticed that our biggest social problems just "happen" to also be located right where Democratic policies were enacted (i.e., the policies preceded the social degradation)? No. I have read about liberal policies solving social problems, as usual. All of these things are certainly at least debatable, but they are also certainly not so obviously false that they can simply be discarded without consideration. Why not? I just discarded them without consideration, and you can, too. The question isn't whether or not liberal policies solve problems far more effectively than Republican policies. The question is how quickly you will accept that truth. |
Only in the short-term. In the long-term, it creates generations of people completely dependent on the government, never really getting the chance to get themselves out of poverty.
All of my extended family are like this. They don't work because the government gives them enough to live.
"No. I have read about public schools outperforming private charter schools."
Where is the proof of this? In my area, the public schools are terrible. It sickens me that I have to pay taxes to support them when they just continue to spiral downward. It's also impossible to get rid of bad teachers, because whenever some sort of solution is suggested (for measuring effectiveness), the unions come back and say it isn't possible.
"The question isn't whether or not liberal policies solve problems far more effectively than Republican policies. The question is how quickly you will accept that truth"
Most liberal solutions that I've seen leave out human nature and a history of complete failure and re-dress it as something 'new'.