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RUSH: New York Times again, headline: ‘New York City to Reward Poor for Doing Right Thing.\u2019 They\u2019re going to raise some private money. Now, that\u2019s all well and good, fine and dandy, but they don\u2019t need<\/emphasize> private money. There is so much tax money that is being raised in New York that they don\u2019t need to go ask the private sector for this. They\u2019re going to do it anyway. The program is going to reward people for showing up and doing what any responsible person would do. ‘Seeking new solutions to New York\u2019s vexingly high poverty rates, the city…\u2019 Why do you think there\u2019s such a high poverty rate in New York? Mr. Snerdley, you want to take a stab at this, just off the top of your head? Why is there such a high poverty rate in New York? You have eight million people there. In many ways it\u2019s the capital of industry in the country. Why is there so much poverty in New York City? Well, you\u2019re partially right about that. New York is its own welfare state in addition to the welfare state created by the federal government. You couple this with the high taxation, plus all the giveaways that have come up. If you give away poverty — this is the best way to understand this. it\u2019s just human nature. If you give away poverty, in other words, if you\u2019re willing to give everybody $20,000 a year in benefits, the poverty line in this country is 20 grand. If you give some people 20 grand, that\u2019s fine with them, they\u2019ll accept it, which is one of the primary problems with liberalism. It destroys ambition; destroys potential; creates dependency in people who are otherwise totally qualified and capable of going out and being more. It is because of the institutional contempt for average people that the American left has. They don\u2019t think they\u2019re capable of anything. They don\u2019t want them to be capable of anything. They don\u2019t want them to be capable of learning anything. We had the story about Chicago schools earlier this week, where mostly poor and minority kids can\u2019t pass tests — and they\u2019re being passed anyway, moving up grade after grade after grade. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if part of this is done on purpose. Liberalism requires ignorance. For liberalism to prosper, as many people as possible must be ignorant. That\u2019s why they\u2019ll accept all these conspiracy theories. If they\u2019re not taught science, for example, if they\u2019re not taught biology they\u2019ll believe all this propaganda about global warming. If they\u2019re not taught basic civics, they won\u2019t understand the way government works.<\/p>\n

If they\u2019re not taught economics, they certainly won\u2019t understand even the most simple economic terms, such as low taxes equals high revenue and high employment. If instead they\u2019re inculcated with class envy, taught to despise the person who has a dollar or more than you, and live on the basis that life\u2019s unfair and you\u2019re getting screwed and then rely on liberals and Democrats to come along and level the playing field, bammo! That fits the bill for them precisely. Then you create a legion of voters that will keep voting. ‘Yep, if you\u2019re gonna give me poverty, I\u2019ll vote for you and accept it.\u2019 That\u2019s one of the problems with New York. They are giving away poverty, and they\u2019re doing it under the guise of compassion. <\/p>\n

All during the mid-eighties, late eighties and early nineties, some of the solutions to homelessness were abominations. ‘Well, we\u2019re going to give \u2019em shopping carts.\u2019 Well, that\u2019s really compassionate. That\u2019s really going to help. Give them a shopping cart so they can wheel their meager possessions around. Or we\u2019re going to give them e-mail accounts or we\u2019ll produce videos to teach \u2019em how to dive in dumpsters for leftovers. I mean that was really compassionate. But yet it was. It was treated that way. It was described as compassionate. ‘These people trying to help the homeless.\u2019 They weren\u2019t doing anything more than sustaining the circumstance. ‘Seeking new solutions to New York\u2019s vexingly,\u2019 they\u2019re not vexing<\/emphasize> at all to me, ‘the city is moving ahead with an ambitious experiment that will pay poor families up to $5,000 a year to meet goals like attending parent-teacher conferences, going for a medical checkup or holding down a full-time job, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said yesterday.\u2019 Well, now, they\u2019re already getting what they get from New York in the welfare state. Then if they go get a full-time job, they\u2019ll be rewarded $5,000 for doing that in addition to whatever they get paid in the full-time job. If they attend parent-teacher conferences, they\u2019ll get paid five grand. If they go for a medical checkup or something like that, they\u2019ll get five grand. Now, folks, this is what normal people do every day. It\u2019s called life<\/emphasize>. They don\u2019t expect $5,000. <\/p>\n

Well, I take that back. They\u2019re going to now, because if you\u2019re going to tell one group of people, ‘Hey, we\u2019ll give you five grand to go to doctor. We\u2019ll give you five grand to go to a parent-teacher meeting.\u2019 Well, a lot of people could use five grand and say, ‘Why not me? I already do it. Why not reward me?\u2019 This is paying for the bare essentials. This is the bare minimum: go get a job. You know, every time the homeless discussion came up, I would advocate, ‘Why don\u2019t we train these people to go to work?\u2019 Boy the libs would freak.<\/p>\n

‘Easy for you<\/emphasize> to say! Why, you have no heart.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘What do you mean ‘easy for me to say\u2019? What\u2019s wrong with work? Work is a defining thing in most people\u2019s lives. It\u2019s the center of their passion. It\u2019s achievement. There are goals that can be met. There are all kinds of great things that can result from work. Where would we all be if we all said, ‘Screw work\u2019?\u2019 So now we\u2019re going to basically pay five grand to New York on top of whatever else poverty payments are for mediocrity. ‘Under the program, which is based on a similar effort in Mexico,\u2019 and that\u2019s really working, isn\u2019t it? This similar program in Mexico, that\u2019s really keeping people in Mexico, isn\u2019t it? Under the program, ‘parents would receive payments every two months for family members meeting any of a series of criteria. The payments could range from $25 for exemplary attendance in elementary school to $300 for a high score on an important exam.\u2019 This is a disaster<\/emphasize> waiting to happen. We\u2019re now going to compensate and reward people who are just in the process of pursuing things that are normal: doing well on a test; showing up when you\u2019re supposed to show up. Some brilliant guy said, ‘Eighty percent of success is showing up on time.\u2019 Well, some people can\u2019t, so we\u2019re going to pay \u2019em 300 bucks or $25 to do that.<\/p>\n

Thank you, New York. This is really going to fix it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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