It's Time To Do Something Else

SEE HERE I am not one of George Will's biggest fans. No particular reason except that I don't agree with him all the time and sometimes he comes across to me as supercilious. (does that mean super-silly? hmmm...) But in this piece he nails it and gives the underlying structure really of how government has destroyed opportunity for millions of lower-income people over the years. Destroying the family has been an unintended side effect of many government programs and the result has been a huge rise in single motherhood and children born outside of a stable family environment. This is the biggest single reason why so many of these unfortunate children have not succeeded up to their innate potential. Harried and harassed single mothers, themselves trapped by a system that discourages families if you want to receive your "checks" and the surrounding environment that results. More of the same, which is all government ever offers will deliver more of the same. Sorry government, you're not the solution to everything. Sometimes actually having a family, even a poor family, trumps government largess extorted from some to grow the power of others with a pittance stripped off to keep a constituency in dependency. The war on poverty looks more and more like a travesty. It has not decreased the number of poor, but it has made their poverty hell on earth. It's time to do something else.