ROFLMAO!!!!
Frank did you read the article?
This is the exact phrase the author used;
"Finally came the 'welfare reform' of 1996 which removed tens of thousands from the benefits rolls and sent them into jobs they often lost within weeks either through ineptitude or inability to live the working life."
Please note the last 16 words..."jobs they often lost within weeks either through ineptitude or inability to live the working life."
That doesn't really sound like they worked and struggled and couldn't pay the bills for very long.
Stop and roll those words around in your mind, "jobs they often lost within weeks either through ineptitude or inability to live the working life."
Now truly man, what do you think this fellow is trying to say?
If I told you, oh say Pat Buchannon said that, what would you think he meant?
Be honest with yourself and it will set you free.
After taking me to task for making an unfair stereotype, you say this,"There are many African-American young men who are deprived of education or economic opportunities whose only way to make the system work for them is to get involved in the sale of drugs for which there is a considerable market in all stratas of society in every country in the world. "
From this I can only conclude that if I had said,'inability to lead the working life means they won't get off the street corner and stop selling crack....' You would have no argument. Is it not an unfair stereotype to conclude that these people who lost their jobs because of an 'inability to lead the working life' were crack dealers?
I could take the opportunity to point out that if he is out selling it, he is smoking it....and thus my statement about putting down the crackpipe is valid. But that would be piling on so I won't.
You then make this extraordinary statement,"There is nothing noble about submitting to a grinding low-level low-paid menial job that doesn't supply enough wherewithal to meet the nut. "
But selling crack is ok? Very interesting.....
You are aware that smoking crack seriously affects your employment viability? That distribution of crack is not only a crime, but a clear and present danger to the community? That the more crackheads there are in a given area, the less likely anybody is going to invest in any sort of business in the neighborhood?
In short I think you have a very twisted sense of nobility. It is the people in the poor communities who work hard and obey the laws that are making a better lives for their kids....the crackdealers are the problem (part of it anyway)!!
"The archaic comment from the dark ages such as "get a job" reminds me of the days of the first automobile where the horseman says to the driver of a broken-down Ford model T,"get a horse". In other words, don't bother to fix the car."
It may be archaic thinking but getting a job goes a long way toward fixing the car....especially if you have to pay the mechanic.....