re: Older Baton Rouge residents. What lead to the decline of NBR?

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Section 8 and cradle to grave entitlements (medicaid, disibility, WIC, SNAP, etc) are the downfall of civilzation.

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Bingo.

Thomas Sowell - "Even when they have the potential to become productive members of society, the loss of welfare state benefits if they try to do so is an implicit “tax” on what they would earn that often exceeds the explicit tax on a millionaire. If increasing your income by $10,000 would cause you to lose $15,000 in government benefits, would you do it? In short, the political left’s welfare state makes poverty more comfortable, while penalizing attempts to rise out of poverty"