Mi Welfare Es Su Welfare

I read a great article this morning by a woman called Star Parker (amazingly, she's neither as fat nor as stupid as a bovine bred for the properties of its lactic acid production), who runs something called the Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education. While she is neither fat nor stupid, she does share one thing in common with the famously bitchy co-host of The View; she's black. Now then, for those of you who think that I should have classified her as African-American, I offer this: Feel free to call me a Brown; I won't complain. I am known for my love of people of African descent and will happily oblige anyone who asks to be called African-American, even if they are white. But since the term black has yet to be classified as offensive and the NAACP is still the NAACP (God, I hope that's not an inside joke), I will continue to use black as a race classification. I find it endearing, thank you.
Ms. Parker is a bit of an oddity in modern American culture (if it can be classified as such); she seems to be a Republican. Not only that, she is opposed to such things as welfare and other big-government entitlement bullshit. (Note: I don't believe in curse words. They don't exist. We made them up and at some point decided they were rude, crude, and socially unacceptable. I know lots of people like that, and the FCC certainly doesn't fine me for having them over for burgers.) So this Lyndon Johnson guy was a democrat. He wanted black people to be donkeys, too because he knew that black people of the time were very excited at having been given the right to vote, and would use it. The overwhelming majority of the black people of 40 years ago remembered that our favorite clinically depressed historical figure (see The Atlantic) was a republican and the one who had signed the law that freed their ancestors from slavery. Naturally they were grateful, especially in light of the recent strides that had been made. As such, they voted GOP. Johnson wanted them something awful, and set out to find a way to win them over. My understanding is that he fancied them somewhat stupid and he figured he could study the polls to find the secret to their hearts. Johnson was one smart bastard. My theory is that he played on the whole reparations thing and figured there was an attitude of entitlement that could be used as a foundation for his plan.
Enter the "War on Poverty."
Fast forward to 40 years later and suddenly Einstein's definition of insanity comes to mind. Forty years of welfare has done jack squat to change the plight of black (or any other) poor people in America. Now the lemming-minded masses want even more entitlements for the poor in light of the pictures the AP shows us of hurricane victims on TV. Before you go thinking that I hate poor people, let me tell you that I personally experienced welfare and food stamps as a kid, and I have some ideas about how to use those programs to actually effect change, but that's a topic for another big block of free time here at the salt mine. There are two points that need to be made here: 1. If Christians acted like Christians (I didn't capitalize that word, Microsoft Word did), the government wouldn't have to worry about poor people and 2. How the heLL DO ILLEGALS WHO ARE NOT ON UNCLE SAM'S TITTY MAKE IT? WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE EXPLAIN THAT TO ME??? When did we stop believing in people in this country? When did we decide that people don't need to learn how to fish? Damn it! This wasn't even supposed to be my topic today! I wanted to talk about people letting their race, culture, nationality, parents, etc define their politics.
I don't know about you, but I actually thought it out and looked at both sides before coming to a decision. I'll talk about that later I guess.