Tyrants Destroy Families

When a family structure exists, children have a much better chance of developing into good citizens, as well as responsible adults.  Parents and even older siblings can play a huge role in shaping a young mind.  It's an incredible advantage, to have two people to be parents.  When we are young, we must learn from our parents how to be polite and civilized.  Also, having parents both male and female shows us the proper way for men and women to act both individually, and with each other.  A rather unfortunate example of this is abuse.  If a father is violent in front of his children with his wife, the children may be doomed to perpetuate a cycle of abuse for generations.  A vicious cycle, that tells us parents have a huge impact on their children. 

Thanks to the broken welfare system, the family is a financial burden.  Welfare rewards single moms, so the mother doesn't marry the father and collects a check.  If the father sticks around and helps, he gets half the welfare check from her.  That's basically what welfare is doing for our society, destroying the idea of family.  I've seen this happen where I work.  There are two people that are father and son, but have different last names.  This is because the father never married, and had the kid out of wedlock to gain a huge single mother welfare check, while he works full time bringing home even more money.  This particular family is together, but they have not gotten married, because the system rewards them not to.  As a matter of fact, the welfare system pays them not to get married.  By the way, that father and son, well the son has children now, with a woman he's not married to.  Big surprise. 

Tyrants have been attacking the institution of marriage in this country for a while now.  The marriage penalty aspect of the federal tax code was built into the tax tables. Higher taxes were required for a married couple who earned the same as two single people. It didn't make any difference if the married couple filed jointly or separately. 

From 1913 to 1969, married couples had an advantage with income taxes, but from the 70s to present, it's been nothing but bad news for holy matrimony. 

The urban ghettos of the United States are almost void of married couples.  With most households lacking a strong father figure, many boys grow up not knowing how to be a man, while many girls grow up not knowing what a man is. 

The sad truth is, by throwing money at it, the US government is actually making things worse.  I'm sure there are a few honest souls out there that use the welfare system properly, but for the most part, it seems like a way to enable irresponsible behavior.  I went to find an apartment once, not knowing the place was tax exempt.  I told them my income, and I was eligible, no problem.  Then I told them I was going to school, and that was a big problem.  In the end, I decided I didn't really want to live there, not that they would have someone trying to improve themselves.

Smart tyrants know the family unit reduces their power over the populace, because they can depend on each other instead of the government.  That's why marriage is, and will continue to be under attack.

Welfare: The boot on the necks of the poor

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day.  Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime.

Welfare is giving a man a fish.  Worse, it's training him to expect it from you.  I don't have any problem with helping people out when they're down on their luck, but at some point you're just enabling a failure to take responsibility.  After all, if a welfare recipient gets a real job, he loses his free government cheese.  He might even have to take a pay cut if he got a real job. 

He won't even be drug tested to make sure he's not trading food-stamps for crack, but if he tries to get a real job, they'll make him pee in a cup.  This is the kind of stuff that is bankrupting America both financially, and morally.  Instead of handing out checks to people, let's pay them a livable wage to pick up litter, clean up graffiti, landscape public property.  Hell, they might learn a skill and make something of themselves if you give them a chance.  Instead, we throw money at the problem, and create an endless cycle of poverty.  Poor + having baby = payraise!  How is that good?  The standard argument is, "oh, we love children, that's why we had to have so many."  Well, if you love them so much, why do you keep bringing more and more of them into a situation of poverty?  Now we have poor people making babies because they get more money for it.  Since these poor people don't have to make a living, they don't teach it to their kids, who end up on welfare, and the cycle continues, growing exponentially.

In the end, welfare has become a proliferator of useless dead weight on our economy, as well as a huge tax-burden to punish people who dare make their own way through life.