@Guru Amirite my parents passed away several years ago and he's the type of man that I would love to be the grandfather of my son coming in three weeks
Ethio the first couple chapters seemed a bit long winded for me, but he then gets into some real juice regarding politics and history in later chapters!
Read, read, read, read Dr. Sowell. Disagree with him, attack his positions, formulate your personal philosophy against him. My favorite aspect of Dr. Sowell's work is that it is grounded in logic and backed by evidence. Weigh his logic, weigh his evidence, confirm it or cast contrary evidence it. All the while you will learn how to think, how to write, how to own an opinion and be proud of it.
Hell yes: I don't care if you subscribe to his philosophy (I disagree with him on some minor points: he has spoken favorably of our health care system, but it's garbage for those who have no tools to negotiate with doctors), he argues them with reason, logic, and passion, the later would be useless without the first two. He demands a proper rebuttal but rarely gets any...just propaganda, ad hominem, and emotional arguments that never get the to root of the issue.
They are looking at the reason why family is unsafe and why the way of life changed. WHEN THE GOVERNMENT PUT DRUGS IN BLACK COMMUNITIES and then started their WAR ON DRUGS. Its almost not fair, i am ashamed that this happend in the USA
My family still prospered in the midst of segregation in Houston, Texas in the 50's-60's, we had separate bathrooms, water fountains, yet we owned a three bedroom home, had outstanding schools, black business flourished. When LBJ so-called 'War on Poverty' went into effect, black business dwindled and our best teachers were sent to other school districts that were mostly white. Liberals sabotaged the upward mobility of blacks, I witnessed it first-hand. Right On Sowell!!!
Yes. Manning Johnson writes about what you mentioned in his book "Color, Communism, and Common Sense"; written in 1958. He writes about Marxist/Communist were to blame for all this.
As a youngster still learning, would you say that things were BETTER before the LBJ poverty thingy? Do YOU think/believe things should've stayed that way for the betterment of US as a community? Thank you for your response in advance, Elder!
@@theseklownskrazyasfuq344 we are ALL being lied to and manipulated by the government. The policies they have put in place are affecting all people now. Not just a certain. It's toxic and destructive. I'd highly recommend reading and watching more videos of his, and his friend Walter E. Williams. Both wise men. Also videos of Milton Friedman.
@@theseklownskrazyasfuq344 since he didn’t respond I will. I believe the racial problems should’ve been done away with as it’s morally wrong but the govt aid shouldn’t have come into effect at all. Not only black families were affected whites were too so that says that everyone got fucked on and now more people come from broken households than ever
It is also worth noting that 1960 was only 15 years after WWII and seven years after Korea. Most single-parent homes in the post-war era were so because the father was killed in combat, not because of illegitimacy.
+Jimmy De'Souza OK, it is fair enough to say that they weren't all casualties of war; but up until the 60's, single motherhood was usually caused by the death of the father. War definitely inflated that number. Mothers having and raising children without ever having been married was rare.
+Tom Forsythe In response to that I'd ask if this percentage in single-parent homes grew proportionally for non-Black families. I don't recall an overwhelmingly larger proportion of Blacks serving in WWII and Korea versus non-Blacks, so if your analysis is true then White families should also see a large proportional jump in single-parent homes.
+dragknuckle But the point here is that Black families are seeing a significantly higher proportion in single-parent homes versus non-Black families. War casualties result in more widows for both white and black families (unless you have proof that more blacks served in the military or did more dangerous missions). War casualties does NOT explain why the Black population has a higher single-parent family ratio than white families.
+Nathan Tong Read my initial comment; I did not mention race, or relative statistics. While I have already conceded on this thread that war deaths were not the primary cause of single motherhood in 1960, the war did cause an increase in the number of single mothers. My point is that, prior to the War on Poverty, single-motherhood was usually caused by the death of the father, or his incarceration. It was relatively unusual for a never-married woman to have and raise a child. Note: I am Tom Forsythe, I just end up signed in under a different user depending on which computer I use.
This guy is great. He's using common sense mixed with little known facts (that should be widely known) instead of emotion. Of course, because of that he's called Uncle Tom all the time by the left.
Just finished "The quest for cosmic justice" and it was fantastic. Highly recommended. I've read most of Sowell's books and he has a wonderful way of writing rigorously without sounding pretentious.
Thanks, LibertyPen for distilling this interview so well. I find the last point in this segment especially potent. He probably took the best available example from an allegorical standpoint, from what I can recall of inwardly collapsed insurgencies. It's a shame there doesn't seem to be anyone else with his level of basic economic nuance and grounded philosophical brilliance. I'm afraid that when he's gone we will never see another Thomas Sowell.
Cevanx, exactly. In retrospect, he even said after graduating from Ivy Leagues schools (Harvard AND Columbia) he was an indoctrinated buffoon. I'm paraphrasing of course. It wasn't until he went to the University of Chicago that he learned to think and saw the light. Lesson? Ivy League indoctrinates. University of Chicago educates!
Man! I'd never heard of Professor Thomas Sowell before watching this video. His intellect and ability to correctly analyze and suggest solutions for many of our Country's problems today is amazing! I wish that I had Professors of that quality!
I've seen many interviews with this same interviewer and his greatest tribute is that I don't know his name or his opinions. His sole purpose is to help the guest express themselves.
To me, this is such an xample of the Unique Principle postulate of: At the xtremes yin becomes yang, yang becomes yin. We are finite with walls bearing down on us from the heavens through the 2 forces of yin/yang. Centering is key, and the answer, therefore.
Liberals do all they can to hide him. I came across him for the first when I was researching photographers. His pictures of Yosemite are a treasure as are his books
I heard Dick Gregory speak when I was in college in the late 70s. He said that when tv became common we were suddenly able to see more abundance in a few minutes of commercials than most will experience in a lifetime. We saw what was not available or common for us. He said prior to experiencing that we knew our neighborhood and most in our neighborhood were of a similar economic level. This is relevant to this discussion.
Go watch the movie Shawshank Redemption. Then go watch any prison movie of the late 70's to this present day, and tell me what you see, and just think about Shawshank Redemption Andy started his prison sentence in I think 1947.
I almost always agree with Dr. Sowell, but from family experience, the Czechs did not want their language and culture to be overwhelmed by the Germans. It was a matter of survival.
can you imagine an all black university made up of men/women staff like this? would produce so many great minds instead of the victim mentality of the kids today
I agree with some of the things he says, but what about the blacks in Tulsa,Oklahoma. They were successful and independent. What happened was that a white mob burned them out.
Dr. Sowell is so right about the devastating results we have had under the liberal nanny State policies. He should dedicate a couple of chapters in his new book using PR as a prime example of how the nanny state policies and a totally corrupted government brought the Island to the disastrous socioeconomic conditions they are facing right now, The Island has one of the highest criminal rates in the Nation and a government external debt they will never be able to pay because the working class is moving over to the States.
9:07 Peter is totally enamored: that's the face of a student basking in the sunlight of his teacher. Love it :-) I would assume a similar position around Sowell, perhaps leaning in EVEN MORE (if such a thing were possible XD)
I think Thomas is an excellent role model for American blacks. A good model for me too (I’m white) but of course I don’t have the perspective that he does with blacks.
They also went from fearing being beaten or lynched for doing things like executing their freedom of speech, or being attracted to people outside of their race. If there are no answers to problems and only trade offs is that a better trade-off?
The commentary can be said abut my neighbourhood in Mangere Auckland New Zealand when I was 5-10 late 60's and Papatoetoe 10-17 in the 70's. Society changed. Neo-liberalism led to as Thatcher said 'no such thing as society',
I strongly believe in politicians keeping the majority of people in a place where you really need them, this is why everything is political now and no longer with common grounds.
my only problem with the remark about single-parent homes, is that this figure rose dramatically for white families as well. and we need to be able to determine as well the effect of the sexual/moral revolution on these numbers. in terms of its relative importance in the black community, sure, I believe the fact that the figure for blacks is at a vast majority of 75%, compared with the figure for whites which is less than half, must have a dramatic effect on the norms of the black community.
I still don’t see the correlation between welfare state and violence/break down of nucleus family. Can someone please break it down. I struggle this because he always give hard data. I’m just not seeing it for this point. Something. Please explain. Thanks in advance.
@@Miodrag.Vukomanovic no it doesn't, it is a bandage on the wound created by capitalism to keep people poor. Please if you don't have something interesting to say don't puke right wing talking points
Although, I never believed one person has all the truths, I Love Thomas Sowell, very intelligent man, but I disagree with the whole welfare done more damage than slavery idea.
+Ivory Johnson I would love to hear your reasoning for that. I've seen the numbers he's referring to before. He didn't make them up. The system literally makes it economically irrational for a single parent without an education to get a low-paying job. By the time they pay for child care, transportation to and from work, and other expenses they have less money than if they stayed home and watched the kids and collected their EBT, AFDC, Medicaid, housing allowance, etc. That's the fundamental problem with welfare; there is no rational way out for the truly poor. Friedman pointed that out in the 1940's, for crying out loud, and proposed an alternative that made perfect economic sense, yet still it remains in place. Why? Because the elites are perceived as 'taking care' of the poor and continue to get their vote. Not all of the elites are doing that maliciously; most are just ignorant. But the damage is the same regardless of the intent. This is a subtle form of slavery in place to perpetuate power for those perceived to be the bearers of this 'gift'.
buckfan1969 Being on welfare can never be compared to 400 years of slavery in no way, the damage caused by slavery is unmatched, I've had cousins on welfare for a few years but eventually they got off, found jobs, furthered thier education and moved on from the welfare system, some of my cousins remained on welfare, but their kids graduated from high school, went to college attained degrees and found jobs, so there are a plethora of scenarios I can give you, but here's the Atom bomb, none of my cousins, friends, associates etc, were able to get out of the hole that was caused by 400 years of American slavery, all of them had to ask the whiteman for a job, but cars and everything else made by the whiteman or Asians, However, I'm not an advocate for the welfare system, but let's not equate it with 400 years of American slavery which gave white people a hell of a head start in every area of endeavors. The number one devastating blow for Black people caused by 400 years of slavery is that we didn't get the chance to build our own military fully nuclear capable and this has put us at the mercy of other people. Again, I don't hate no group of people or system as long as we respect each other and don't abuse any system.
+Ivory Johnson Never meant to say welfare was as bad as slavery; it's a different form of slavery. And yes, some people have risen above the welfare trap, just as some slaves escaped the plantations. But the system has built in incentives to perpetuate dependence on the system. Sowell's point is the entitlement system has seriously damaged the family unit among the poor and built a wall, if you will, to make it much more difficult to raise one's own standard of living. It's not a racial thing; it's an economics thing. All the numbers support that thesis. Sowell is probably the iconic example of a poor kid pulling himself out of poverty and realizing his goals. He's probably also the exception that proves the rule.
+Ivory Johnson Never meant to say welfare was as bad as slavery; it's a different form of slavery. And yes, some people have risen above the welfare trap, just as some slaves escaped the plantations. But the system has built in incentives to perpetuate dependence on the system. Sowell's point is the entitlement system has seriously damaged the family unit among the poor and built a wall, if you will, to make it much more difficult to raise one's own standard of living. It's not a racial thing; it's an economics thing. All the numbers support that thesis. Sowell is probably the iconic example of a poor kid pulling himself out of poverty and realizing his goals. He's probably also the exception that proves the rule.
+buckfan1969 To some extent I agree, I like to look at the whole picture from beginning to end, not a sound bite or come in when the credits are rolling.
imagine how much better our society would be if People of ALL races listened and lived by the ways of basic decency and respect that Thomas Sowell displays? how is this man not in a more prominent role in our eroding society? It's amazing what happens when we remove God from government and society. divorce and lack of family are the direct result of what we see today. people put their selfish ambitions before family, and sustainability for future generations. I used to be an atheist, always trying to justify my disbelief with philosophy and science. There is no reason or explanation for love to exist without god. science can't explain it. If people like Dr. Sowell were listened to, our moral standing and quality of life would improve in America 10 fold.
After God made Thomas Sowell he broke the mold. He was probably exhausted! He probably said 'here you go planet earth... its the only one your gonna get, you better listen up!'
Its the rules of welfare and means testing/cutting of benefits if a person earns income or saves money and the man in the house rule that caused problems not the handing out of money. Basic Income.
Sorry. You fail to mention that the welfare housing policy prevents the father from living in the home. That policy alone discourages mothers from marrying in order to keep receiving benefits. The welfare state is neither liberal or conservative it is “racist” and does not provide a way to move up out of poverty.
Don't forget that they then pop out kids and use them as a welfare anchor. Those kids then adopt the same degenerate characteristics of learned helplessness, and never taking accountability for their own actions.
Has anyone ever heard Thomas Sowell speak on the role that racist FHA loan practices played in increasing white wealth and decreasing Black wealth starting in the 1930's? White wealth building was supported by the U.S government over Blacks. Read more: www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-teachers-07.htm
Investment in our human resources paid huge dividends during the New Deal. Supply-Side economics has led to stagnation and the decline of the middle-class.
I am Czech and I dont really get mr. Sowell´s point about our national revival, but i am surprised he did even mention that and that he even knows about it. The thing is - most people here in Czech lands (Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia) were bilingual, no matter if they were czech, german or jewish. Even Franz Kafka did speak czech, through he was german jew. The point was to make czech culture (and economy) competitive with german, which eventually led to improvement of the whole country.
with this argument, wouldn’t we expect to see increased single motherhood in countries that have larger social support programs for single moms?? Actually, no. That's not correct
Ok. I'm not sure how this is related. Sowell basically argues that welfare incentivizes people to stay in what he deems as a "bad" family setup (e.g., single parenthood). This doesn't really hold up to scrutiny. I mean, the US welfare state isn't robust at all compared to other countries (e.g., most of Europe). If the argument were based on data, we should look at the rates of single parenthood in countries with robust welfare states and see if there's a causal link between this and higher single parenthood, but this seems to fall flat based on what I can tell just by looking at plain statistics. For a naive comparison, we could look at Finland (robust welfare) and the US (not as robust), and we'd see that single-parent households don't have a positive correlation with robustness of welfare. It would be necessary to look at a larger sample of countries to really draw conclusions of course, but my big problem with Sowell is that his arguments seem to be mostly based on his own assessment of ~vibes~ rather than actual data, and in general, I don't think it's wise to draw policy insights from this. @@ParadiseLordRyu
His arguments seem logically fallacious to me. He only shows correlations without establishing any causal relationships. He obviously has never heard of the lead-crime hypothesis
FINALLY an opinion that has substance. All this slob-knobbing over him is a bit much. He leaves out a LOT of other factors. It’s not just the welfare state from liberals that led to where we are today.
This guy attributes the number of parents in a black home to the welfare state?? He uses 1960-1990 numbers during which time the divorce rate in America doubled (from ~10 in 1000 marriages, to ~21 in 1000 marriages) a factor that isn't political. Also during that time the incarceration rate nearly tripled (from ~110 in 100,000 to ~300 in 100,000 ) a factor placed squarely in the hands of Ronald Regan's republican party. To place the blame for the number of parents in a home on the 'welfare state' is laughable, and a perfect example of how republicans ignore important and pertinent factors to suit there narrative and, on a more individual level, to sell books. I don't know anything about Thomas Sowell, but I can guarantee he makes the majority of his income on book sales. Be right back, checking his bio......yup, stopped counting at 30 books.
Get people to vote for you by pushing for policies that address their needs, downright evil. Don't like the facts I provide so you attack me personally, typical. The only ignorance here is coming from you, sir. I don't need to know about a specific con-man when I've seen the same playbook hundreds of times. Cherry pick the numbers that support your case, disregard signifigant factors that don't. Make outrageous claims to grab people's attention. Cash in on book sales. Repeat.(around three dozen times in Dr. Sowell's case)
The one problem I have with Sowel's argument is that he doesn't consider the population increase. It's true what he says about the difference of Black people now and 30 years ago, but you have to consider population increase when you compare now and then.
Steven Walk His percentages may not have been so drastically different if the population was the same back then. In the end, the reason conservatives struggle so much with minorities is that they tend to spend more time complaining about poor people being lazy, rather than talking about ways to help them regardless of how it benefits their agenda. Until they do that, they'll always struggle to gain support from the people they ridicule.
+Joey Doherty That's not how percentages work in the real world. With populations you can only have 100%(By this I mean, 100% of blacks will continue to be 100% of blacks purely because you cannot create a percent out of nothing) so if a study were to come out and the data were to show that 30% of Mexican Americans will die in a car crash and nothing were to have changed you would expect the number to stay the same. Now it might waver a bit but with a large enough populous you can get accurate enough results. But if you add in a changing factor such as implementing seat belt laws you would expect this number to go down respectively right? Now, this is where your argument fails. We implemented a lot of affirmative action laws, which are meant specifically to help blacks get ahead in life, but in the time that we started implementing them we watched things decline, such as black people's desire for higher education. And of course this is just one example that we can look at when we can turn our heads to see that the single motherhood rate has gone up drastically, crime statistics, etc. These are all things that we should have eliminated/at least reduced with the laws that we implemented. But they're not.
+Doc Merci He's right about the problems with liberal policies. I just bieve the percentages might not have been as high earlier in the 20th century. The less people in the Black community, the more chance someone has of making it out of their situation.
Joey Doherty Yes, but believing something doesn't make it true. This is the main problem with liberals. They rely too much on faith and emotions and not enough on fact and evidence. "Intellectuals have MANY SKILLS which ENABLE them to EVADE the testing of what they believe" -Mr. Thomas Sowell
I grew up in racist Ohio during the 60 and 70'. I was a student at Ohio State University and work part time to help pay my college expenses. I got called "nigga" and "faggot" so many times by white people that it actually became discouraging for me. My firt job was at Mc Donalds, i worked the window and French frys. I always worked the Friday/Sat closing shift. Bigest McDonald's in Columbus Ohio at the time and we closed at 2pm on weekend's. Long story short, Im wallkin down high s t at anout 2:45 am after a busy Friday nite, ive closed and balanced my window and drained and cleaned the French Fry Rack. Its a giant deep fryer. So Im walking home, tired , covered in French fry greese, but happy because i did my job well and management noticed my professional ism and hard work. Im maybe two blocks from Donald land, walkin dont the street still got my uniform on and i see a van approaching. It speeds up pulls right to the curb and just as they pass someone throws a bucket off water on me while everyone in thhe van yells NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA! At first i was angry the quickly very sad thinking to myself "it dosent matter how hard i work or how good a job ive done, there will always be someone wanting to hurt me and impead my attemps to progress because when they see me the first thing they see is my brown skin". Yea, ultimately it is all about self-determination, hard work and beingb the best at what you do but the song never changes, from Macdonald s to Armani, for my time period it was all about my skin. That was the hardest part, always being the only black person inthe room and not goin crazy dealing with all the crazy. For example, if i had a c note for every time some one said to me, " if i wasnt lookin at you by the way you speak id have no idea you were Black". Really, wow what a surprise . Things are better now but lets not pretend that racism does not exist. And even more importantly an education is paramount. Without it, well if you're a Black man you better have some athletic skills or entertainment talent.
Throwing water and hurling racial epithets from a moving van ... wow, real tough guys there. That sucks, man. What was the price of a Big Mac back then??
Correlation does not equal causation. Because you can cherry pick statistics that sound like they support your ideals, does not make them correct. I hear a bunch of anecdotes, but no real science. You have to understand, this is social science, there are too many variables to make any hard conclusions. That's why it's called a soft science.
Love watching these talks with Mr. Sowell, but I get a little irritated by the feigned interviewing by the other gentleman. It 's obvious theater, especially when he feigns ignorance of the answers to the questions he asks, which are really statements costumed as questions for Dr. Sowell to respond to. Fake perplexity. I think Dr. Sowell deserves a better presentation than that. Just sayin.
+mzk1 Successive ethnic groups lived there but that social phenomenon called "white flight" changed the complexion of it. Interestingly enough, Harlem is really a Dutch word, spelt differently in Holland, of course.
Can someone explain or link to a source that explains why the welfare state of the 60's hit blacks harder than whites? I'm sure there were many poor white families too. Shouldn't the percentages be related to the total percentage of whites and blacks? Or was this somehow "customized" for black families?
Pick your dates and your context, and you can demonstrate whatever bias you have. From the mid 1970s onward, the neoliberals gained control of the economy and crushed what was left of unions, and labor could no longer make demands based on the increasing productivity of the work-force. Real wages remained flat while productivity and corporate profits climbed. What climbed as well was long-term unemployment and with Bill Clinton administration, NAFTA began the shifting of US production and jobs to foreign locations. Clinton also began the hopeless deprivation of children by ending the ADC (aid to dependent children) that was part of the New Deal and Great Society heritage of the US. LBJ's programs to help the poor were sacrificed to the US aggression in southeast Asia. With Reagan began the bloating of the military budgets and austerity for the domestic side of the budget. Local services, dependent on federal subsidies, yielded those benefits to the arms merchants and war-mongers in a process that has grown worse, more punitive to most Americans, especially blacks to this very day. Prof. Sowell knows all this. He is a tool of the ruling elite.
(1) The real crushing of labor took place in the 1890s. David Montgomery's book dates the Fall of the House of labor to 1925- there was a resurgence afterwards but labor never held firm sway in this country. Neoliberal economics is mere regression to the mean before the New Deal and those times (though not problemless) didn't have the rates of family desertion and crime we see today. (2) Outsourcing really got under way in the 80s and 90s but we see the figures of our present ordeal begin to rise during the 60s and 70s. (3) Clinton didn't end AFDC but replaced it with TANF, which is different to be sure as it compels (if that's the right word) people to get off TANF when AFDC didn't. The Great Society was doomed to begin with because it focused more on job training than job creation. (4) Reagan may have grown the military budget but you can't compare it to the expansion during WWII and the military is actually where most of the innovation in our economy comes from, if anyone is creating jobs its them- not military jobs mind you but spin offs from all their new innovations. I think I agree with you that Sowell attaches too much importance to blaming everything on welfare. But as to the grim signs of the times, I think Sowell is nearer the truth than say Chomsky.
The reason I can never and will never vote democrat until they change, is because of their fiscal policy. I agree with many of their social viewpoints but their social views trump their fiscal views. The economy is the most important factor which dictates the well being of a country, and thus it should be the priority when voting.
Get rid of those anti-color views from the Republican Party and more people of color might change parties. At this point they are coming across as not being to friendly or pro-non-white these days.
You learn more from Thomas Sowell by accident than from others by design.
Brilliant point!
Well Said Gordon, well said
It's true. I happened upon this and many other videos with Sowell today through serendipity.
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Deep...definitely what I would call a based comment.
Wealth, Poverty, and Politics by Thomas Sowell has got to be one of the best books I've read.
Thank you. I'm going to order it today.
@Guru Amirite my parents passed away several years ago and he's the type of man that I would love to be the grandfather of my son coming in three weeks
Ethio the first couple chapters seemed a bit long winded for me, but he then gets into some real juice regarding politics and history in later chapters!
Couldn’t agree more.
How many books he has written
I can't get enough of Thomas Sowell: thanks for posting!
Yes
He is not the Demon's Souls Chosen One.
Me too. Can't get enough of him.😊
Read, read, read, read Dr. Sowell. Disagree with him, attack his positions, formulate your personal philosophy against him. My favorite aspect of Dr. Sowell's work is that it is grounded in logic and backed by evidence. Weigh his logic, weigh his evidence, confirm it or cast contrary evidence it. All the while you will learn how to think, how to write, how to own an opinion and be proud of it.
Amen to all of that.
Hell yes: I don't care if you subscribe to his philosophy (I disagree with him on some minor points: he has spoken favorably of our health care system, but it's garbage for those who have no tools to negotiate with doctors), he argues them with reason, logic, and passion, the later would be useless without the first two. He demands a proper rebuttal but rarely gets any...just propaganda, ad hominem, and emotional arguments that never get the to root of the issue.
His arguments seem very illogical to me.
They are looking at the reason why family is unsafe and why the way of life changed. WHEN THE GOVERNMENT PUT DRUGS IN BLACK COMMUNITIES and then started their WAR ON DRUGS. Its almost not fair, i am ashamed that this happend in the USA
@@troylongo3099 You say that but then offer zero counter evidence.
My family still prospered in the midst of segregation in Houston, Texas in the 50's-60's, we had separate bathrooms, water fountains, yet we owned a three bedroom home, had outstanding schools, black business flourished. When LBJ so-called 'War on Poverty' went into effect, black business dwindled and our best teachers were sent to other school districts that were mostly white. Liberals sabotaged the upward mobility of blacks, I witnessed it first-hand. Right On Sowell!!!
Yes. Manning Johnson writes about what you mentioned in his book "Color, Communism, and Common Sense"; written in 1958. He writes about Marxist/Communist were to blame for all this.
As a youngster still learning, would you say that things were BETTER before the LBJ poverty thingy? Do YOU think/believe things should've stayed that way for the betterment of US as a community? Thank you for your response in advance, Elder!
@@theseklownskrazyasfuq344 we are ALL being lied to and manipulated by the government. The policies they have put in place are affecting all people now. Not just a certain. It's toxic and destructive. I'd highly recommend reading and watching more videos of his, and his friend Walter E. Williams. Both wise men. Also videos of Milton Friedman.
@@theseklownskrazyasfuq344 since he didn’t respond I will. I believe the racial problems should’ve been done away with as it’s morally wrong but the govt aid shouldn’t have come into effect at all. Not only black families were affected whites were too so that says that everyone got fucked on and now more people come from broken households than ever
@TheWiseMonkey8888, Why do you say no?
Someone put a mic in Sowells hand so he can drop it after he's done talking.
glanemann Funny, lol!
+glanemann He's too classy to act like that, which is part of his appeal.
True.
He wouldn't do that. It's rude and destructive of another person's property.
Nonya Damnbusiness yeah im a musician, so I know how much they cost.
The officially stated goal of the War on Poverty was to reduce dependency on government. 50 years later. How did that work out?
fzqlcs Nah, the war on poverty was actually a DRIVE to INCREASE POVERTY!
old south democrats ...trying to bring back the plantation and get a strong voting bloc in perpetuity
"democrats ...trying to bring back the plantation"
Oh, good grief!
@fzqlcs - It worked out about as well as the "War on Drugs".
@william III Oh, good grief!
Imagine how much greater this country could be if we had a thousand more Thomas Sowells...
Why only a thousand? Those are rookie numbers! We gotta pump those numbers up!
If more blacks had the same mentality as Dr sowell, then wakanda can be real.
Thankfully more blacks are waking up to the coercive policies of LBJ and I am seeing black conservative professors in my university.
THIS IS A MAN OF VISION, SADLY A RARE ATTRIBUTE TODAY.
He should voice Darth Vader. "Luke, get a job and stop blowing things up!"
That was great! :)
It is also worth noting that 1960 was only 15 years after WWII and seven years after Korea. Most single-parent homes in the post-war era were so because the father was killed in combat, not because of illegitimacy.
Tom Forsythe Which makes the growth in illegitimacy that came AFTER the 1960's even worse, since that didn't have the war excuse.
+Jimmy De'Souza OK, it is fair enough to say that they weren't all casualties of war; but up until the 60's, single motherhood was usually caused by the death of the father. War definitely inflated that number.
Mothers having and raising children without ever having been married was rare.
+Tom Forsythe In response to that I'd ask if this percentage in single-parent homes grew proportionally for non-Black families. I don't recall an overwhelmingly larger proportion of Blacks serving in WWII and Korea versus non-Blacks, so if your analysis is true then White families should also see a large proportional jump in single-parent homes.
+dragknuckle But the point here is that Black families are seeing a significantly higher proportion in single-parent homes versus non-Black families. War casualties result in more widows for both white and black families (unless you have proof that more blacks served in the military or did more dangerous missions). War casualties does NOT explain why the Black population has a higher single-parent family ratio than white families.
+Nathan Tong Read my initial comment; I did not mention race, or relative statistics.
While I have already conceded on this thread that war deaths were not the primary cause of single motherhood in 1960, the war did cause an increase in the number of single mothers.
My point is that, prior to the War on Poverty, single-motherhood was usually caused by the death of the father, or his incarceration. It was relatively unusual for a never-married woman to have and raise a child.
Note: I am Tom Forsythe, I just end up signed in under a different user depending on which computer I use.
Thomas Sowell conversations should be mandatory in schools and colleges.
I'm willing to bet that 4 out of 5 black people don't even know who Thomas Sowell is. And that's woefully unfortunate.
4 out of 5 whites have no clue who he is either and that is unfortunate.
@zadose I agree with you Zadose...my guy friend says this to me all the time.
It’s a lot higher number than that. 49 out of 50 more like it
I bet 4 out of 5 Whites don't know either.. What makes you so smart, ohh thats right you're white..
I didn't know about him until a month or so ago.
This guy is great. He's using common sense mixed with little known facts (that should be widely known) instead of emotion. Of course, because of that he's called Uncle Tom all the time by the left.
Everyone in the USA should watch this. Thomas Sowell is a National Treasure.
Just finished "The quest for cosmic justice" and it was fantastic. Highly recommended. I've read most of Sowell's books and he has a wonderful way of writing rigorously without sounding pretentious.
Wow this is outstanding information.
Thanks, LibertyPen for distilling this interview so well. I find the last point in this segment especially potent. He probably took the best available example from an allegorical standpoint, from what I can recall of inwardly collapsed insurgencies. It's a shame there doesn't seem to be anyone else with his level of basic economic nuance and grounded philosophical brilliance. I'm afraid that when he's gone we will never see another Thomas Sowell.
this guy used to be a Marxist until he saw the light. we need more people like Sowell
Cevanx, exactly. In retrospect, he even said after graduating from Ivy Leagues schools (Harvard AND Columbia) he was an indoctrinated buffoon. I'm paraphrasing of course. It wasn't until he went to the University of Chicago that he learned to think and saw the light. Lesson? Ivy League indoctrinates. University of Chicago educates!
Scholarly brilliant interview! Love this man's writings and interviews. He has many great books on varied subjects!
Brilliant needs to be heard daily, especially in the black community...
Man! I'd never heard of Professor Thomas Sowell before watching this video. His intellect and ability to correctly analyze and suggest solutions for many of our Country's problems today is amazing! I wish that I had Professors of that quality!
The Ultimate SJW head-explosion video
I've seen many interviews with this same interviewer and his greatest tribute is that I don't know his name or his opinions. His sole purpose is to help the guest express themselves.
To me, this is such an xample of the Unique Principle postulate of: At the xtremes yin becomes yang, yang becomes yin.
We are finite with walls bearing down on us from the heavens through the 2 forces of yin/yang. Centering is key, and the answer, therefore.
Anderson Peters anytime.
You learn more in ten minutes from Thomas Sowell than ten days from Al Sharpton.
No sense in comparing the two? They have nothing in common.
Can't believe I have never heard of this gentleman !
I hear you. What a wonderful man.
Liberals do all they can to hide him. I came across him for the first when I was researching photographers. His pictures of Yosemite are a treasure as are his books
Welcome to reality :-) it's very bright, might burn a bit!!
Such an intellect!
His words ring ever so true with today’s events.
Why am I just now finding this Mr. Thomas Sowell? He is remarkable!
I second that question.
I heard Dick Gregory speak when I was in college in the late 70s. He said that when tv became common we were suddenly able to see more abundance in a few minutes of commercials than most will experience in a lifetime. We saw what was not available or common for us. He said prior to experiencing that we knew our neighborhood and most in our neighborhood were of a similar economic level. This is relevant to this discussion.
Thomas sowell is a legend...
Unbelievable wisdom here...
This Gentleman is a National Treasure!
Can we air drop dvds of this over Chicago?
we need to get together & fix our own problems & stop relying on these foxes & wolves
Forgive me for my late posts. I had no idea Dr. Sowell was still around.
Go watch the movie Shawshank Redemption. Then go watch any prison movie of the late 70's to this present day, and tell me what you see, and just think about Shawshank Redemption Andy started his prison sentence in I think 1947.
I bow down to Mr. Sowell. What a brilliant mind
I almost always agree with Dr. Sowell, but from family experience, the Czechs did not want their language and culture to be overwhelmed by the Germans. It was a matter of survival.
That’s what he said though. They HAD to.
Thomas Sowell is fucking intellectual juggernaut.
can you imagine an all black university made up of men/women staff like this? would produce so many great minds instead of the victim mentality of the kids today
I agree with some of the things he says, but what about the blacks in Tulsa,Oklahoma. They were successful and independent. What happened was that a white mob burned them out.
Dr. Sowell is so right about the devastating results we have had under the liberal nanny State policies. He should dedicate a couple of chapters in his new book using PR as a prime example of how the nanny state policies and a totally corrupted government brought the Island to the disastrous socioeconomic conditions they are facing right now, The Island has one of the highest criminal rates in the Nation and a government external debt they will never be able to pay because the working class is moving over to the States.
If you are a black man iiving in a economically depressd neighbourhood, the Trickle Down never trickles that far.
Yup. He comes from “privilege” like most black folk who vote R.
Mr. Sowell is a American treasure
amazing man - thank you for posting this
“Including snacks.” Rush
And the problems are affecting across all people. Not just any particular group.
I really wish he went into more detail from the last 30 seconds of the video, is there any more to this?
yeah that was a bit of a tease
genius. Absolute genius.
9:07 Peter is totally enamored: that's the face of a student basking in the sunlight of his teacher. Love it :-) I would assume a similar position around Sowell, perhaps leaning in EVEN MORE (if such a thing were possible XD)
Absolutely fascinating.
I think Thomas is an excellent role model for American blacks. A good model for me too (I’m white) but of course I don’t have the perspective that he does with blacks.
This is a true gem....
They also went from fearing being beaten or lynched for doing things like executing their freedom of speech, or being attracted to people outside of their race. If there are no answers to problems and only trade offs is that a better trade-off?
The commentary can be said abut my neighbourhood in Mangere Auckland New Zealand when I was 5-10 late 60's and Papatoetoe 10-17 in the 70's. Society changed. Neo-liberalism led to as Thatcher said 'no such thing as society',
The reasons underneath. That's what I'm talking about.
I strongly believe in politicians keeping the majority of people in a place where you really need them, this is why everything is political now and no longer with common grounds.
Does dr sowell have a book by this specific title. Does anyone know?
my only problem with the remark about single-parent homes, is that this figure rose dramatically for white families as well. and we need to be able to determine as well the effect of the sexual/moral revolution on these numbers.
in terms of its relative importance in the black community, sure, I believe the fact that the figure for blacks is at a vast majority of 75%, compared with the figure for whites which is less than half, must have a dramatic effect on the norms of the black community.
That’s not what the interview was about though. It’s was about how the creation welfare affected black people.
He keepin it real right now
I still don’t see the correlation between welfare state and violence/break down of nucleus family. Can someone please break it down. I struggle this because he always give hard data. I’m just not seeing it for this point. Something. Please explain. Thanks in advance.
mike saunders that doesn’t really answer my question. Your point is more of an observation than actually stating why or correlation.
@mike saunders Thanks looking up now.
they're not liberals Tom, but otherwise I agree
I’ve never heard of this guy in the media, and we know that is for a reason… He destroys the entire left wing premises.
black kids who live in 1 single-parent household has tripled
white and Hispanic kids who live in a single-parent household had doubled
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Welfare enables and directly funds degeneracy.
@@Miodrag.Vukomanovic no it doesn't, it is a bandage on the wound created by capitalism to keep people poor.
Please if you don't have something interesting to say don't puke right wing talking points
If only more people knew about this gentlemen we would be better off
Although, I never believed one person has all the truths, I Love Thomas Sowell, very intelligent man, but I disagree with the whole welfare done more damage than slavery idea.
+Ivory Johnson I would love to hear your reasoning for that. I've seen the numbers he's referring to before. He didn't make them up. The system literally makes it economically irrational for a single parent without an education to get a low-paying job. By the time they pay for child care, transportation to and from work, and other expenses they have less money than if they stayed home and watched the kids and collected their EBT, AFDC, Medicaid, housing allowance, etc. That's the fundamental problem with welfare; there is no rational way out for the truly poor. Friedman pointed that out in the 1940's, for crying out loud, and proposed an alternative that made perfect economic sense, yet still it remains in place. Why? Because the elites are perceived as 'taking care' of the poor and continue to get their vote. Not all of the elites are doing that maliciously; most are just ignorant. But the damage is the same regardless of the intent. This is a subtle form of slavery in place to perpetuate power for those perceived to be the bearers of this 'gift'.
buckfan1969 Being on welfare can never be compared to 400 years of slavery in no way, the damage caused by slavery is unmatched, I've had cousins on welfare for a few years but eventually they got off, found jobs, furthered thier education and moved on from the welfare system, some of my cousins remained on welfare, but their kids graduated from high school, went to college attained degrees and found jobs, so there are a plethora of scenarios I can give you, but here's the Atom bomb, none of my cousins, friends, associates etc, were able to get out of the hole that was caused by 400 years of American slavery, all of them had to ask the whiteman for a job, but cars and everything else made by the whiteman or Asians, However, I'm not an advocate for the welfare system, but let's not equate it with 400 years of American slavery which gave white people a hell of a head start in every area of endeavors. The number one devastating blow for Black people caused by 400 years of slavery is that we didn't get the chance to build our own military fully nuclear capable and this has put us at the mercy of other people. Again, I don't hate no group of people or system as long as we respect each other and don't abuse any system.
+Ivory Johnson Never meant to say welfare was as bad as slavery; it's a different form of slavery. And yes, some people have risen above the welfare trap, just as some slaves escaped the plantations. But the system has built in incentives to perpetuate dependence on the system. Sowell's point is the entitlement system has seriously damaged the family unit among the poor and built a wall, if you will, to make it much more difficult to raise one's own standard of living. It's not a racial thing; it's an economics thing. All the numbers support that thesis. Sowell is probably the iconic example of a poor kid pulling himself out of poverty and realizing his goals. He's probably also the exception that proves the rule.
+Ivory Johnson Never meant to say welfare was as bad as slavery; it's a different form of slavery. And yes, some people have risen above the welfare trap, just as some slaves escaped the plantations. But the system has built in incentives to perpetuate dependence on the system. Sowell's point is the entitlement system has seriously damaged the family unit among the poor and built a wall, if you will, to make it much more difficult to raise one's own standard of living. It's not a racial thing; it's an economics thing. All the numbers support that thesis. Sowell is probably the iconic example of a poor kid pulling himself out of poverty and realizing his goals. He's probably also the exception that proves the rule.
+buckfan1969 To some extent I agree, I like to look at the whole picture from beginning to end, not a sound bite or come in when the credits are rolling.
imagine how much better our society would be if People of ALL races listened and lived by the ways of basic decency and respect that Thomas Sowell displays? how is this man not in a more prominent role in our eroding society? It's amazing what happens when we remove God from government and society. divorce and lack of family are the direct result of what we see today. people put their selfish ambitions before family, and sustainability for future generations. I used to be an atheist, always trying to justify my disbelief with philosophy and science. There is no reason or explanation for love to exist without god. science can't explain it. If people like Dr. Sowell were listened to, our moral standing and quality of life would improve in America 10 fold.
After God made Thomas Sowell he broke the mold. He was probably exhausted! He probably said 'here you go planet earth... its the only one your gonna get, you better listen up!'
Its the rules of welfare and means testing/cutting of benefits if a person earns income or saves money and the man in the house rule that caused problems not the handing out of money. Basic Income.
He is the smartest person I know.
Know of* unless of course you've met him
Sorry. You fail to mention that the welfare housing policy prevents the father from living in the home. That policy alone discourages mothers from marrying in order to keep receiving benefits. The welfare state is neither liberal or conservative it is “racist” and does not provide a way to move up out of poverty.
Don't forget that they then pop out kids and use them as a welfare anchor. Those kids then adopt the same degenerate characteristics of learned helplessness, and never taking accountability for their own actions.
This welfare rule was changed years ago
Has anyone ever heard Thomas Sowell speak on the role that racist FHA loan
practices played in increasing white wealth and decreasing Black wealth
starting in the 1930's? White wealth building was supported by the U.S
government over Blacks.
Read more:
www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-teachers-07.htm
Love Thomas Sowell. But, I would like to know why Whites must use the term "African-Americans" so much instead of "Blacks?" The Blacks never use it.
Investment in our human resources paid huge dividends during the New Deal. Supply-Side economics has led to stagnation and the decline of the middle-class.
Has Jesse Jackson ever had a debate with sowell?
I assume he is excluding Jim Crow. But his point is not only a refutation of the Leftists, but of the White Supremecists.
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Citations?
He means before the second century, not the first, I presume.
I am Czech and I dont really get mr. Sowell´s point about our national revival, but i am surprised he did even mention that and that he even knows about it. The thing is - most people here in Czech lands (Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia) were bilingual, no matter if they were czech, german or jewish. Even Franz Kafka did speak czech, through he was german jew. The point was to make czech culture (and economy) competitive with german, which eventually led to improvement of the whole country.
I am czech as well but our culture is long gone today no hussite no catholic
+sithersproductions Our culture is mostly german anyways...
tatarjantar thats why its sad no one knows..
How does the War on Drugs play into this explanation? It seems noticeably absent from his list of things affecting minority communities :-\
Exactly. And the streets were flooded with drugs by…. US GVT ! Systemic perhaps ?
with this argument, wouldn’t we expect to see increased single motherhood in countries that have larger social support programs for single moms?? Actually, no. That's not correct
In the us the father isn’t allowed or no benefits
Ok. I'm not sure how this is related. Sowell basically argues that welfare incentivizes people to stay in what he deems as a "bad" family setup (e.g., single parenthood). This doesn't really hold up to scrutiny. I mean, the US welfare state isn't robust at all compared to other countries (e.g., most of Europe).
If the argument were based on data, we should look at the rates of single parenthood in countries with robust welfare states and see if there's a causal link between this and higher single parenthood, but this seems to fall flat based on what I can tell just by looking at plain statistics. For a naive comparison, we could look at Finland (robust welfare) and the US (not as robust), and we'd see that single-parent households don't have a positive correlation with robustness of welfare. It would be necessary to look at a larger sample of countries to really draw conclusions of course, but my big problem with Sowell is that his arguments seem to be mostly based on his own assessment of ~vibes~ rather than actual data, and in general, I don't think it's wise to draw policy insights from this. @@ParadiseLordRyu
His arguments seem logically fallacious to me. He only shows correlations without establishing any causal relationships. He obviously has never heard of the lead-crime hypothesis
FINALLY an opinion that has substance. All this slob-knobbing over him is a bit much. He leaves out a LOT of other factors. It’s not just the welfare state from liberals that led to where we are today.
More like the Farewell state
This guy attributes the number of parents in a black home to the welfare state?? He uses 1960-1990 numbers during which time the divorce rate in America doubled (from ~10 in 1000 marriages, to ~21 in 1000 marriages) a factor that isn't political. Also during that time the incarceration rate nearly tripled (from ~110 in 100,000 to ~300 in 100,000 ) a factor placed squarely in the hands of Ronald Regan's republican party. To place the blame for the number of parents in a home on the 'welfare state' is laughable, and a perfect example of how republicans ignore important and pertinent factors to suit there narrative and, on a more individual level, to sell books. I don't know anything about Thomas Sowell, but I can guarantee he makes the majority of his income on book sales. Be right back, checking his bio......yup, stopped counting at 30 books.
Get people to vote for you by pushing for policies that address their needs, downright evil. Don't like the facts I provide so you attack me personally, typical. The only ignorance here is coming from you, sir. I don't need to know about a specific con-man when I've seen the same playbook hundreds of times. Cherry pick the numbers that support your case, disregard signifigant factors that don't. Make outrageous claims to grab people's attention. Cash in on book sales. Repeat.(around three dozen times in Dr. Sowell's case)
Here we have my brother-in-law and all his colleagues PUSHING hard to get Hillary into office. We're screwed on both sides though.. :-(
The one problem I have with Sowel's argument is that he doesn't consider the population increase. It's true what he says about the difference of Black people now and 30 years ago, but you have to consider population increase when you compare now and then.
+Joey Doherty Why is that relevant in regards to that point he's making?
Steven Walk His percentages may not have been so drastically different if the population was the same back then. In the end, the reason conservatives struggle so much with minorities is that they tend to spend more time complaining about poor people being lazy, rather than talking about ways to help them regardless of how it benefits their agenda. Until they do that, they'll always struggle to gain support from the people they ridicule.
+Joey Doherty That's not how percentages work in the real world.
With populations you can only have 100%(By this I mean, 100% of blacks will continue to be 100% of blacks purely because you cannot create a percent out of nothing) so if a study were to come out and the data were to show that 30% of Mexican Americans will die in a car crash and nothing were to have changed you would expect the number to stay the same. Now it might waver a bit but with a large enough populous you can get accurate enough results. But if you add in a changing factor such as implementing seat belt laws you would expect this number to go down respectively right?
Now, this is where your argument fails. We implemented a lot of affirmative action laws, which are meant specifically to help blacks get ahead in life, but in the time that we started implementing them we watched things decline, such as black people's desire for higher education. And of course this is just one example that we can look at when we can turn our heads to see that the single motherhood rate has gone up drastically, crime statistics, etc. These are all things that we should have eliminated/at least reduced with the laws that we implemented.
But they're not.
+Doc Merci He's right about the problems with liberal policies. I just bieve the percentages might not have been as high earlier in the 20th century. The less people in the Black community, the more chance someone has of making it out of their situation.
Joey Doherty Yes, but believing something doesn't make it true. This is the main problem with liberals. They rely too much on faith and emotions and not enough on fact and evidence.
"Intellectuals have MANY SKILLS which ENABLE them to EVADE the testing of what they believe"
-Mr. Thomas Sowell
Can someone help understand this subject better? I have questions
I'll do my best, what are your questions?
I grew up in racist Ohio during the 60 and 70'. I was a student at Ohio State University and work part time to help pay my college expenses. I got called "nigga" and "faggot" so many times by white people that it actually became discouraging for me. My firt job was at Mc Donalds, i worked the window and French frys. I always worked the Friday/Sat closing shift. Bigest McDonald's in Columbus Ohio at the time and we closed at 2pm on weekend's. Long story short, Im wallkin down high s t at anout 2:45 am after a busy Friday nite, ive closed and balanced my window and drained and cleaned the French Fry Rack. Its a giant deep fryer. So Im walking home, tired , covered in French fry greese, but happy because i did my job well and management noticed my professional ism and hard work. Im maybe two blocks from Donald land, walkin dont the street still got my uniform on and i see a van approaching. It speeds up pulls right to the curb and just as they pass someone throws a bucket off water on me while everyone in thhe van yells NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA!
At first i was angry the quickly very sad thinking to myself "it dosent matter how hard i work or how good a job ive done, there will always be someone wanting to hurt me and impead my attemps to progress because when they see me the first thing they see is my brown skin". Yea, ultimately it is all about self-determination, hard work and beingb the best at what you do but the song never changes, from Macdonald s to Armani, for my time period it was all about my skin. That was the hardest part, always being the only black person inthe room and not goin crazy dealing with all the crazy. For example, if i had a c note for every time some one said to me, " if i wasnt lookin at you by the way you speak id have no idea you were Black". Really, wow what a surprise .
Things are better now but lets not pretend that racism does not exist. And even more importantly an education is paramount.
Without it, well if you're a Black man you better have some athletic skills or entertainment talent.
Throwing water and hurling racial epithets from a moving van ... wow, real tough guys there. That sucks, man. What was the price of a Big Mac back then??
Correlation does not equal causation. Because you can cherry pick statistics that sound like they support your ideals, does not make them correct. I hear a bunch of anecdotes, but no real science. You have to understand, this is social science, there are too many variables to make any hard conclusions. That's why it's called a soft science.
This is poor social science
“Ahh I didn’t know that” haha
Love watching these talks with Mr. Sowell, but I get a little irritated by the feigned interviewing by the other gentleman. It 's obvious theater, especially when he feigns ignorance of the answers to the questions he asks, which are really statements costumed as questions for Dr. Sowell to respond to. Fake perplexity. I think Dr. Sowell deserves a better presentation than that. Just sayin.
Wasn't Harlem Jewish at that point?
+mzk1 Successive ethnic groups lived there but that social phenomenon called "white flight" changed the complexion of it. Interestingly enough, Harlem is really a Dutch word, spelt differently in Holland, of course.
But he also said Welfare was our reparations now I’m confused 😂
take God's laws out of the public schools and there you go...hell on earth. Get to the point.
God’s laws in this country and schools are not constitutional. And I’m a God fearing Christian , but the constitutional clearly states that.
Can someone explain or link to a source that explains why the welfare state of the 60's hit blacks harder than whites? I'm sure there were many poor white families too. Shouldn't the percentages be related to the total percentage of whites and blacks? Or was this somehow "customized" for black families?
they are not African American, they are black Americans , just like you are a Polish American
Pick your dates and your context, and you can demonstrate whatever bias you have. From the mid 1970s onward, the neoliberals gained control of the economy and crushed what was left of unions, and labor could no longer make demands based on the increasing productivity of the work-force. Real wages remained flat while productivity and corporate profits climbed. What climbed as well was long-term unemployment and with Bill Clinton administration, NAFTA began the shifting of US production and jobs to foreign locations. Clinton also began the hopeless deprivation of children by ending the ADC (aid to dependent children) that was part of the New Deal and Great Society heritage of the US. LBJ's programs to help the poor were sacrificed to the US aggression in southeast Asia. With Reagan began the bloating of the military budgets and austerity for the domestic side of the budget. Local services, dependent on federal subsidies, yielded those benefits to the arms merchants and war-mongers in a process that has grown worse, more punitive to most Americans, especially blacks to this very day. Prof. Sowell knows all this. He is a tool of the ruling elite.
(1) The real crushing of labor took place in the 1890s. David Montgomery's book dates the Fall of the House of labor to 1925- there was a resurgence afterwards but labor never held firm sway in this country. Neoliberal economics is mere regression to the mean before the New Deal and those times (though not problemless) didn't have the rates of family desertion and crime we see today.
(2) Outsourcing really got under way in the 80s and 90s but we see the figures of our present ordeal begin to rise during the 60s and 70s.
(3) Clinton didn't end AFDC but replaced it with TANF, which is different to be sure as it compels (if that's the right word) people to get off TANF when AFDC didn't. The Great Society was doomed to begin with because it focused more on job training than job creation.
(4) Reagan may have grown the military budget but you can't compare it to the expansion during WWII and the military is actually where most of the innovation in our economy comes from, if anyone is creating jobs its them- not military jobs mind you but spin offs from all their new innovations.
I think I agree with you that Sowell attaches too much importance to blaming everything on welfare. But as to the grim signs of the times, I think Sowell is nearer the truth than say Chomsky.
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The reason I can never and will never vote democrat until they change, is because of their fiscal policy. I agree with many of their social viewpoints but their social views trump their fiscal views. The economy is the most important factor which dictates the well being of a country, and thus it should be the priority when voting.
Get rid of those anti-color views from the Republican Party and more people of color might change parties. At this point they are coming across as not being to friendly or pro-non-white these days.
Economy is for the sake of the people.