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Re: Are all black men brainwashed?
You just keep on ignoring the fact that people who cannot get work will require welfare. A society that does not match jobs to education will have large numbers unemployed and they will require welfare. Welfare is not what people aspire to. Not everyone is going to become engineers, we would not have enough of those jobs available to meet that demand. Germany has a 2 track system, higher academic track AND a vocational track. They protect their industries, they don't allow cheap foreign products in undercutting their industrial base. We do not do that, we allow corporations to do want they want. When you do this, you will have what we have, large numbers of underutilized workers. I believe one the biggest reasons we don't have kids interested in learning is because they see that it does not have a future. They see their parents not getting ahead, not increasing their REAL economic standing. Again, I am going back to economic mobility....the subject you keep avoiding. You cannot have economic mobility when the middle steps are being removed.I missed it Gimme, sorry.
Welfare has only recently been reformed. It's much better now than it used to be, but the bones of creating dependency aren't gone -- either in the system or in the mindset of people who see it as an entitlement and means to an end.
You say I want to blame the victim. No. I want to blame the system that created the victim: a failing school system and a welfare system, only recently somewhat reformed, that makes getting on the dole a job objective.
I am also not talking specifically about blacks. I'm talking about all inner-city poor.