Sunday, July 7, 2013

Dateline 5 July

One of the things that the government seems to have done with their social welfare programs is to do a pretty good job of destroying the family.

I have a niece that has had a somewhat hard row to hoe over the past few years and a couple of years ago her efforts paid off and she can now at least breathe a bit as she takes care of herself and her two kids.

While she did a lot of it on her own, her mom and brother helped out here and there until she got her professional license and got a few paychecks ahead. She's doing well now.

I attribute that to family as likely without one she would have been caught in a Catch-22 that would have been damned difficult to get out of. They gave her not only encouragement but her brother gave her and the kids housing until she could get here professional license.

Between work, school and raising kids she was pretty busy and did well getting her education but it sure would have been a whole lot harder without help from the family. While she has grit and likely would have made it, the help she got from her family was invaluable.

Incidentally I really respect her for making her way. She easily could have quit and joined the Free $hit Army.

This is a case of a family sticking together. The country is chock-a-block full of small success stories like that, but in this day and age are becoming rarer and rarer by the day. It's a damned shame. Thank you, Uncle Sam.

Of course, with the event of our social programs the family seems to have decided that it is a whole lot easier for a family member in need to just take a government handout. No longer do families feel the need to take responsibility for their members. They can simply palm the responsibility off to the government and make everyone else cough up to take care of what used to be a family problem.

Families used to give their members a handup and this is now replaced with governmental handouts.

Prior to LBJ's great society programs when a guy got his girlfriend pregnant 75% of these guys married the girl. While not an ideal solution, far from it actually, it did provide for some sort of accountability. The guy was held accountable for his actions and was expected to be responsible and at least help raise the child.

One year after the bill was passed the rate of guys that married the mothers of their babies dropped to 11% and when you look at it, it makes sense why. The government takes care of everything on the taxpayer's nickel.

If the woman was even close to frugal she actually didn't have to work and there were a lot of other government benefits now available that would enable her to stay home with her kid.

The government in effect had become the father figure of an awful lot of children because they were now the one putting bread on the table. Prior to that it had been the father of the child.

In truth a number of these young mothers would give their baby up for adoption where it was sure to be better taken care of. It made sense because and childless couples had the opportunity to adopt a child to raise and educate.

After the government stepped up to the plate to act as a father figure it didn't take long for another class of women to enter the fray. The women realized that when their children attained the age of 18 that the benefits would stop. Time to get pregnant again.

I can speak firsthand of this because in my thirties I was briefly dating a woman in her middle to late thirties and she mentioned that she wanted to get pregnant again and promised me that she wouldn't hold me responsible if I got her pregnant.  Although I pulled the eject handle instantly, she found someone else, got pregnant and sure enough got to keep all of her governmental benefits.

In short, it makes little sense to get married and raise a family when a woman can simply get knocked up and have the government take care of her.

When one is 17 and pregnant and looks at what her young boyfriend has to offer as opposed to what the government is supplying it is a slam dunk no brainer that marrying a guy that is working at an entry level job really doesn't come close to what the government has to offer.



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