mick silver
5th August 2011, 10:20 AM
http://www.thedailybell.com/2765/Daily-Bell-Briefs ...
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg Thursday unveiled a $127.5 million campaign to help black and Hispanic youths who suffer from staggeringly high unemployment, crime and poverty rates. ... "Far too many are trapped in circumstances that are difficult to escape," Bloomberg said. "Even though skin color in America no longer determines a child's fate, sadly, it tells us more about a child's future than it should."... "New York City is going to send a signal that the situation facing young black and Latino men requires the same kind of aggressive, cross-agency response that a natural disaster would demand, because fixing these outcomes is critical to the City's health and future." – AFP
Dominant Social Theme: Unless the government does something about it, anyone who isn't white will get the short end of the stick.
Free-Market Analysis: Whatever the reasons for high unemployment, crime and poverty rates among blacks and Hispanics, not being white isn't one of them. Unemployment, crime and poverty rates among Americans whose families originated in China, Japan, Vietnam, Korea, India and Pakistan are markedly lower than among white Americans.
Color isn't the problem. Government is. As measured by income, the history of black people from the end of the Civil War (javascript:showWindow(500,800,'/floatWindow.cfm?id=1876');) to the end of World War II was a history of progress. Black income levels were gradually converging with those of whites. During that same period, illegitimacy rates among the black population were lower than among the white population. That changed after World War II with the advent of a government program, Aid to Families With Dependent Children, that offered generous benefits to fatherless families – so generous that many black families found they would be better off if Dad would walk away. The social result has been what most would expect when millions of children grow up without fathers.
Minimum wage laws seal the fate of black children who grow up in fatherless families. Low educational achievement means skills with a low economic value – in many cases below the minimum wage mandated by government. The practical result: disadvantaged black youth are forbidden to earn and are forbidden to develop work skills by actually working. For them, government makes sure that the first rung on the economic ladder is unreachable.
Government is not the agency that protects the poor and weak. It is the agency that uses them as human shields for protecting the power of the state.
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg Thursday unveiled a $127.5 million campaign to help black and Hispanic youths who suffer from staggeringly high unemployment, crime and poverty rates. ... "Far too many are trapped in circumstances that are difficult to escape," Bloomberg said. "Even though skin color in America no longer determines a child's fate, sadly, it tells us more about a child's future than it should."... "New York City is going to send a signal that the situation facing young black and Latino men requires the same kind of aggressive, cross-agency response that a natural disaster would demand, because fixing these outcomes is critical to the City's health and future." – AFP
Dominant Social Theme: Unless the government does something about it, anyone who isn't white will get the short end of the stick.
Free-Market Analysis: Whatever the reasons for high unemployment, crime and poverty rates among blacks and Hispanics, not being white isn't one of them. Unemployment, crime and poverty rates among Americans whose families originated in China, Japan, Vietnam, Korea, India and Pakistan are markedly lower than among white Americans.
Color isn't the problem. Government is. As measured by income, the history of black people from the end of the Civil War (javascript:showWindow(500,800,'/floatWindow.cfm?id=1876');) to the end of World War II was a history of progress. Black income levels were gradually converging with those of whites. During that same period, illegitimacy rates among the black population were lower than among the white population. That changed after World War II with the advent of a government program, Aid to Families With Dependent Children, that offered generous benefits to fatherless families – so generous that many black families found they would be better off if Dad would walk away. The social result has been what most would expect when millions of children grow up without fathers.
Minimum wage laws seal the fate of black children who grow up in fatherless families. Low educational achievement means skills with a low economic value – in many cases below the minimum wage mandated by government. The practical result: disadvantaged black youth are forbidden to earn and are forbidden to develop work skills by actually working. For them, government makes sure that the first rung on the economic ladder is unreachable.
Government is not the agency that protects the poor and weak. It is the agency that uses them as human shields for protecting the power of the state.