Sample Expert from My New Book

Here is a very ROUGH sample excerpt from my new book.

Chapter Title: Democrats Have Made Blacks Poorer, Dumber and Lazier

Enjoy!

It was the Democrat-arranged marriage between the economic programs of the 1930s and the reemergence of social reforms of the 1960s that have kept blacks poorer, dumber, and lazier—all in the name social and racial justice. This dependency on the federal government diminished African-American’s drive to work hard. In addition, it advanced the idea that blacks are entitled to basic needs while simultaneously curbing the virtue of personal responsibility, and it fostered the lack of ambition deeply embedded in the culture of poor black Americans.

This was clearly evident with the poor black Americans of New Orleans as we witnessed much of the result of almost eight decades of endless money and social programs and its effect as they experienced the devastating hurricane. After the calamity know as Katrina, it was revealed that the primary tragedy was not George Bush and the federal government’s disastrous response to the hurricane, but the reality that New Orleans was the quintessential welfare state. Consequently, the poorer citizens were not able, did not know how, and in some cases lacked the desire to handle the situation on their own. Jacob Hornberger, founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, in response to the politicization of the Katrina predicament wrote:

“And now New Orleans. Here in its spectacular glory is the magnificent result of 70 years of the welfare state – of the federal “war on poverty.” Tens of thousands of people lacking sufficient money to enable them to escape oncoming disaster for just a few days – dependent on the federal government for their salvation – desperately waiting for federal officials to deliver food and water to them – and to pick them up and deliver them to government-run refugee centers around the nation. In other words, the 70-year-old New Deal–Great Society “war on poverty” has left tens of thousands of people destitute (or dead) in New Orleans and looking to the federal government for their salvation.”

In my chapter on federalism, I will address the Katrina catastrophe in more detail; however, I will use the Katrina model to prove the point that the democrat’s “war on poverty” was actually a quite successful war on poor black Americans and like other wars in recent times, there was no exit strategy.

The Gingrich-Clinton Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (also known as Welfare Reform) ...much more later!

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