re: Costs of the new prison sentence legislation in LA

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You're implying causality that isn't established.

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No. I follow base human nature and the plain ole statistics.

You need not look any further than the great society and the massive expansion of welfare and what it has done to the poor over the last 60 years.

Among the poorest 1/3 of Americans…. Those that welfare is aimed at helping….

Birthdates have remained steady and above that of the top 2/3 of Americans.

Babies born out of wedlock has skyrocketed.

Single parent home rate has skyrocketed.

Health for the bottom 1/3rd has gotten worse.


Incarceration rate has gone up for the bottom 1/3rd.

Reading and writing skills have plummeted for the bottom 1/3rd.

Weird how incentivizing bad decision making has done more harm to the poorest and most marginalized communities through welfare programs than any other period of American history.

The numbers get worse when rather than looking at the bottom 1/3 as a whole and look at minority groups on their own.

What the great society and welfare has done to the black community is disgusting. Welfare did what slavery and Jim Crow couldn’t - it destroyed the black family unit. And it did it, not with violence and bigotry, but by the illusion of “helping” and “caring”