Did I say that? It just so happens that most are concentrated in the urban cities. I personally do not care where they are. The laziness of these people needs to stop! These leeches of the U.S. taxpayer have absolutely no excuse. Any able bodied/minded person MUST support themselves period!
American liberalism has always been centered in our cities. That is where government subsidies have traditionally been most generous and government regulations most onerous. If there were any basis for liberals’ faith in the power of big, bureaucratic programs to improve people’s lives, we should see it in the form of prosperous, socially vibrant inner cities.
Unfortunately for urban Americans, no such evidence exists. The liberal love affair with Big Government policies has cost urban areas a great deal. Our cities, for so long the center of public life, have suffered economic stagnation and social breakdown. These severe problems have followed—indeed, we would argue, directly resulted from—ill-conceived government policies that have discouraged small business, punished families, and hampered local associations’ efforts to maintain safe and nurturing environments.
Indications of liberalism’s failure are all around us. But perhaps most damning is the citizens in our urban areas.
Those there being increasingly surrounded by violence and poverty, with few of the social and community resources Americans once took for granted. The rate of child poverty in central cities, 33 percent, is more than twice that of suburban areas. More than a third of inner-city children in families are being raised by mothers alone. Violent crime increased 500 percent between 1960 and 1990. And all this came about while we were spending $5 trillion for a "War on Poverty."
Faced with this massive suffering, conservatives cannot and must not turn away. Harsh experience has proven that Big Government programs destroy the social capital on which healthy families and communities rely. We must help free communities from rules and regulations as they seek to rebuild. Conservatives should welcome this chance to show that community and opportunity can solve the problems caused by Big Government. As we seek to build a governing coalition and a healthier society, we must put our beliefs to work helping liberalism’s urban victims.
We also must keep in mind that so-called urban problems are no longer exclusive to big cities. From illegitimacy and poverty to crime and drug abuse, small cities and rural areas are feeling the effects of decades of Big Government liberalism.
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