Thank you Thomas Sowell ....
"If you want to see the poor remain poor, generation after generation, just keep the standards low in their schools and make excuses for their academic shortcomings and personal misbehavior. But please don’t congratulate yourself on your compassion."
"What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. Insofar as they fail, they receive the money; insofar as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away."
"Since wealth is the only thing that can cure poverty, you might think that the left would be as obsessed with the creation of wealth as they are with the redistribution of wealth. But you would be wrong. The common sense here is that we must develop talent in order to create wealth, whether that’s creating a forklift driver that can provide for his family or creating a CEO."
It's about closing the opportunity gap.
AMEN
