Poverty Affects Children of All Races in the United States

WHEN YOU HAVE DUG YOURSELF INTO A DEEP HOLE, THE WAY OUT IS NOT TO KEEP SHOVELING.

Massive government programs to make poor people into wards of the state, started with the Great Society and have been added to ever since with Obama making all previous "nanny state programs" look paltry. These types of programs have destroyed family values, destroyed education, destroyed incentive, motivation and individual responsibility. These types of programs have rarely provided a path out of poverty for any racial group. It is the exceptional child who works out of poverty despite the government programs to keep a status quo with housing subsidies, food stamps, welfare checks, Medicaid, etc.

As of 2008 in the United States, there were 14 million White children living in poverty, 4.3 million Black children, 4.4 million Hispanic children and 0.5 million Asian children; with the minorities in poverty being at about 2.5 times the rate for Whites. Blacks being in poverty as victims of racism is the kind of simple lazy theme we always get from the leftists media and "race baiters" like Al Sharpton or Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post. However, the causes and cure are clearly far more complex and we have 50 or more years of experience to prove that the government cannot spend the way out of poverty through direct subsidies.