American Thinker: America's Three Worst Presidents
Yesterday in my sermon, as I explained the implications of the Seventh Commandment, I argued that one of the chief reasons for fidelity in marriage has to do with the sociological implications of crumbling families: a tremdendous cost to society is incurred. Some of it can be measured in dollars and cents and some of it can't.
With regard to the former one of my parishioners sent me an email about a book that details the actual dollar cost of the 'war on poverty.' Can you believe that the figure probably exceeds $6 Trillion! That's 2x the size of President Bush's most recent budget!
Robert Rector et al. pegged the cumulative cost of government poverty eradication at $5.4 trillion way back in 1995. Here's Rector's coathored
book, published by the Heritage Foundation,
book, published by the Heritage Foundation,
Amazon.http://www.amazon.com/Americas-Failed-5-4-Trillion-Poverty/dp/0891950621
With regard to the latter the aforementioned article cites the following evidence...
The actual consequences of Johnson's Great Society were disastrous for blacks, discouraging initiative, encouraging a sense of entitlement and victimhood, and creating a permanent dependency class. Until 1965, 82% of black households had both a mother and a father in the home -- a statistic on par with or even slightly higher than white families. After 1965 (the year the Democrats and President Johnson decided it was time to stop oppressing blacks and start "helping" them), the presence of black fathers in the home began a precipitous decline; today, the American black out-of-wedlock birthrate is at 69%.
No matter how you slice it the cost of immorality and adultery is staggering.
2 comments:
It's tough to choose the three very worst presidents, but Carter, Buchanan, and Johnson are "solid" picks.
The author may be wrong in saying Buchanan was the only bachelor elected to the presidency. Grover Cleveland's marriage ceremony to his first and only wife was during his presidency (three decades after Buchanan).
Although the economic cost of all those "Great Society" programs is staggering, they are nothing compared to the social cost. Apparently it only costs six trillion dollars to severely wound the family as a social unit in the world's greatest nation.
I agree. The dollars spent make my head spin but the cost in damaged and broken lives cannot be tallied in dollars and cents. My years of working in prisons was not glamorous at all, in fact it was depressing. Whenever I see a documentary about prisons and life behind bars I am struck by the absolute waste of human potential. Many of the men and women behind bars are the product of 3 generations of social engineering through federal programs. Words escape me.
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