Chuckie Watch 27: Chuckie Celebrates Martin Luther King Day

Ole Chuckie's latest entry Poverty is dated 01/16/04, but it's the post he put up to be in place for the Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday.

Chuckie's reminiscing back some 39 years to 1965, which, he explains, "was the year that Lyndon Johnson introduced his War on Poverty, the largest and most detrimental piece of social legislation in the history of this country." Chuckie also seems to think that the set of programs known as the "war on poverty" was just a single piece of legislation that created welfare. And Chuckie don't like it. Because, he says:

We have silly qualifications which allow women to have as many babies as they want to, in many cases not even knowing the name of the child’s father and shiftless scum to father as many children as they want and walk away from any responsibility for supporting them.

After all, isn’t welfare supposed to be about helping people over a rough spot until they can take responsibility for their own lives? [I thought it was about preventing poor children from going hungry.]

We also have a war on drugs going on. Well how many drug dealers do you think are supported by government subsidies in the form of a welfare check each month to a crack head mother who leaves her children to roam the streets to become an additional drain on the societal course when they end up in prison?

Now, something tells me Chuckie is not mainly addressing this to single mothers. And Chuckie doesn't really tell us what he'd prefer to do about all this. Let babies whose mothers are poor starve? Legislation requiring compusory vascectomies for "shiftless scum"? Compuslory sterlization for poor women?

Chuckie says this here welfare/war on poverty thingamagig should be done aware with. "If only people who honestly cannot take care of themselves received assistance and the able bodied slugs who are too stoned or too sorry to work were removed from the rolls, we could give the truly disabled enough to raise their income above the poverty line."

Apparently Chuckie thinks that welfare is only for the disabled. I think Chuckie may be just a tiny bit unclear on the whole concept.