The black community's 72 percent rate eclipses that of most other groups: 17 percent of Asians, 29 percent of whites, 53 percent of Hispanics and 66 percent of Native Americans were born to unwed mothers in 2008, the most recent year for which government figures are available. The rate for the overall U.S. population was 41 percent.
N ow don't get me wrong, this is something of a problem across the American spectrum. It's the reaction to the story over at Outside the Beltway that to me is just staggering. Here are some of the comments
Except no one wants to confront the REASON for this illegitimacy :
Feminism, that lobbies for government subsidies of unwed motherhood.
Another:
The obvious isn’t obvious or even correct. The percentage of blacks born to unwed mothers has gone up even though abortions are legal and we teach sex education and contraception in our schools. Not only has it not worked, it’s actually made things worse. It’s impossible to look at the statistics and suggest anything else. You can’t substitute medical procedures and condoms and pills for traditional morality. We’ve tried that for more than 40 years and it’s been a total failure.
And more:
Perhaps we should start vigorously enforcing statuatory rape laws as a deterent.
What a stupid idea. No wonder conservatives are such useful idiots for feminists.
The answer is to fight FEMINISM, not make ‘statutory rape’ laws even more absurd than they already are.
And here's my favorite:
We’re closely approaching Liberal Utopia. A whole race bred specifically to dependent upon political largesse of their Democratic Party benefactors for survival. Up next: hispanics.
Now, I know this is the standard wingnut reaction to stories like this. African-Americans are too stupid to know that Liberals are keeping them on the plantation, we're all stupid immoral criminals anyway, the government subsidizes welfare queens, feminism created the two-income household and cut wages in half, all of it complete bull but these out-of-wedlock numbers keep going up.
The racism I reject out of hand based on the increase across the board in out of wedlock birth rates over the last 30 years for all races.
Maybe it's because as Matt Osborne pointed out last night, wages have remained steady since 1970 while productivity has more than doubled? It seems to me that if wages kept pace with the increase in productivity like they did through the 50's and 60's, we wouldn't be having a number of social issues right now.
But for 40 years now wages have been stagnant while America is almost three times as productive as it was then, even with the addition of women to the workplace over that period of time. So it's not women entering the job marketplace that caused wages to stagnate, rather stagnate wages forcing them to work.
Meanwhile taxation is as low as it has been in the modern era. Many corporations have a tax burden of next to nothing or actually zero. The top marginal tax rate has fallen even from when Reagan was President. It's not taxes or the government causing the issue or globalization, we continue to remain the most productive country on Earth.
It just continues to appall me that people blame everything but the corporations who are profiting off of our sweat and not giving back. It's not the government creating serfdom, your fealty has been sworn to Wall Street, folks.
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You're correct to track all these social ills to the decoupling of wages from productivity circa 1972. You couldn't be more ignorant of the cause. Corporations have nothing to do with it. Nixon closed the gold window in 1971. The last 40 years of social devastation has been a direct result of the Federal Reserve and its fiat money. The villain here has always been the United States government you keep worshiping as a clueless liberal.
In other words Breton Woods II has failed. We need to return to the gold standard and we will, or we will face obliteration by fiat money.
You link Zero Hedge enough that you should be aware of absolute and complete failure of Keynesian macroeconomics and you rightfully predict we are headed for a severe depression but you refuse to believe the obvious cause of it.
Maybe it's because as Matt Osborne pointed out last night, wages have remained steady since 1970 while productivity has more than doubled?
Maybe you should put down the Marx. In case you hadn't seen it, Marxism is a failure everywhere it existed and exists.
It seems to me that if wages kept pace with the increase in productivity like they did through the 50's and 60's, we wouldn't be having a number of social issues right now.
It's a different world than the one in the 50's and 60's. Along with the U.S., every other free country in the world has gotten immensely wealthy, along with Communist China, who finally rejected Marx and Mao and embraced enough of free market capitalism to become a force; therefore, competition between the U.S. and the world is vastly greater than it was then.
The problem is 75 years of Social Security and 45 years of Great Society programs, and not enough free market capitalism, which is proven to make all people wealthier. It's the failed Democratic War on Poverty that hasn't done a thing to help it (the recent numbers bear that out). It's liberal politicians and the idiots that vote for them that are the problem.
The racism I reject out of hand based on the increase across the board in out of wedlock birth rates over the last 30 years for all races.
That's right. Liberal policies have done this to everybody. The unfortunate reality is that African-Americans have been far more negatively affected by these outrageous liberal policies. But liberals avoid having this conversation by throwing out the race card to those who state this fact. Just so you know, conservatives aren't disparaging African-Americans, but liberal policies. That is the truth.
It's not the government creating serfdom, your fealty has been sworn to Wall Street, folks.
I don't think so. The private sector can't create serfdom. Only government can.
SteveAR has a point. Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are unsustainable.
I'm willing to bet you have never seen a dime of benefit from any of these programs, but you have spent your working life paying into them, and you never will.
That is the definition of serfdom.
wow. it's like a harmonic convergence of conservative idiocy.
wow. it's like a harmonic convergence of conservative idiocy.
Spoken like a true, America-hating, lying Marxist.
What anonymouse said.
And gold will have to triple before they make back the margins they're paying Beck's sponsors.
Spoken like a true, America-hating, lying Marxist.
yikes. you seriously posted that. are you an adult or some kid who's just discovered politics? what a blithering numbskull you must be. quoting john stossel, insisting that fox is closer to real news than msnbc, etc. kid or not, you are just about the biggest fucking idiot to ever post here.
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