Coalition of the Screwed - Rush is Right!

It used to be that women who were divorced were called "divorced mother of two". Now, that distinction is long gone. If you've never been married, or if you were married, got divorced, and get child support, you're still a "single mother."

There are always exceptions, of course, but in the main, divorced mothers deserve some respect - at least they got married and expected to have a two-parent household before something went wrong - but single mothers? On welfare, with multiple kids? They deserve no respect and no welfare.

I well remember how poor VP Dan Quayle pointed out that having wealthy businesswoman Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) have a child out of wedlock sent a bad message to the US. He was castigated for that common sense statement! But he spoke no more than the truth. Sure, Murphy Brown could afford to raise a kid on her own, but most women who have illegitimate kids don't even have high-school diplomas. They are stuck into a cycle of poverty from which they will never get out.

And while African-American women lead this statistic - 70% of black children in this country are illegitmate, the percentage of white women giving birth to illegitimate kids is rising. Pretty soon you can be sure the nuclear family will be a thing of the past.

Can we blame it all on the fact that a woman who gives birth to a child she can't afford is automatically put on welfare? And the more kids she has, the more money she makes?

It's been a long time since I was a teen in high school, but these days I'm pretty damn sure that all teens know about using condoms. If they don't use condoms, you've got to believe that they want to get pregnant. And they don't even need to know the name of the father, because the government is going to take care of all their needs.

So what they're saying is that we have three whole cities' worth of poor people in New Jersey, in one state. I'm struck here. Who do you think is hardest hit here? That's right, children, women -- he-he-he -- the elderly, African-Americans, Hispanics, and single mothers. The coalition of the screwed. These are the people that are constantly suffering the most in America, the coalition of the screwed: women, children, the elderly, African-Americans, Hispanics, and single mothers. Now, just stop for a second and think about a culture that embraces, supports, and encourages strong families with a father and mother and see if you find them in the midst of the coalition of the screwed. I mean I hate to be so blunt about it. Now, Asbury Park, New Jersey, is the home of the Barack H. Obama school that is being closed due to lack of students. Oh, you didn't hear about that? Asbury Park, New Jersey, the Barack H. Obama school, they're shutting it down, lack of students. It was just announced last week. It's an elementary school.

Anyway, if you believe these numbers, "The poverty level, as defined by the federal government is $10,400 for a single person, $14,000 for a couple, $17,600 for a family of three and $21,200 for a family of four." That's the poverty level. If there are nearly two million people in New Jersey living near poverty, what more can be done the way we're doing it? I mean this bunch is demanding more government. "New Jersey's burgeoning numbers of poor and nearly poor show the need for government to 'provide more help, more care and more protection' to its suffering residents." What in the world has the war on poverty been? We're in debt helping people. We're $14 trillion in debt helping people. New Jersey, $76 billion in debt helping people. What have we not done? What's the transfer of wealth that's already taken place? Gonna be $8 trillion since the Great Society. What more could we do? At what point does a person's lot in life become their responsibility? At what point?

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