Why Not Occupy - The Slums?

Some sports blogger on CBS Sportsline wrot an article today that he hoped the Occupy Indiana folks wouldn't protest during the Superbowl.

And of course there are over a hundred responds, most of them pointing out that the 1% of rich folks have been getting richer while the middle class has stagnated.

But what about the poor?

The only thing we ever hear is that Republicans "hate the poor."

But have they no blame to share in this economic crisis? How many poor folk are single mothers with six or seven children, the fathers of whom they don't even know? So of course they're on welfare. And no, that's not a racist remark. While it's true that 70% of black children are born out of wedlock, the percentage of white kids in the same boat has been rising - indeed, all my step-cousins (from my uncle's marriage to a woman who had I think 3 kids, each of the boys of whom have no job and several kids with any woman who will sleep with them) are illegitimate.

The point is, why do our taxes go to support these children?

Then there's all the teenage kids - again mostly, but not all, minorities, who drop out of school and thus will never get good jobs. They get to be on welfare, too.

I'd say it is the 50% of people who don't pay taxes - the poor - who are doing more damage to us middle class people than the fact that some rich guy only pays $3 million in taxes instead of $4 million. (Not that I don't see why they shouldn't pay $4 million, if they make $30 mil a year.)

But of course if you blame the poor for their own circumstances, you're heartless and racist.

You couldn't blame poor blacks up until the 1960s...segregation and prejudice kept them down, sure. And the 1970s - a transition decade. But from the 1980s to the 2000s, there was nothing to stop them from getting to their rightful place in America: embracing middle-classness and the American way of life that had been denied them.

Instead, we got Ebonics and drop-outs and generation upon generation of welfare children.

Much of that blame of course must go to the government and their "unintended consequences" - by paying women more welfare if there was no man in the house, they destroyed the black family, and now, by extension, the white family, as no one these days thinks anything of having kids without being married - while at the same time being 15 or 16....just the right age to bring up a child, don't you think?