Police reform bill just more social pork

[Boatswain2PA]

Police Reform: Refocus Law Enforcement, Bolster Community Foundations | National Review

This spend-first, assess-later approach will only repeat the mistakes in social policy from the time of the Great Society. According to some estimates, the federal government has poured anywhere from $15 trillion to $22 trillion into these welfare programs. Meanwhile, problems in the cities have not improved or have even gotten worse. Our urban K–12 public schools are a disgrace, homelessness runs rampant, and a permanent underclass has developed that cannot escape the inner cities. Academic studies show that while the Great Society programs have transferred trillions of dollars of income to alleviate poverty, they may have also actually harmed communities by creating incentives against family formation, work, and personal responsibility.

 

[PaulinVA]

Well, the subject of the thread is not what the article is about.

I agree with some points of the article and disagree with others.

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[Horton]

This spend-first, assess-later approach will only repeat the mistakes in social policy from the time of the Great Society. According to some estimates, the federal government has poured anywhere from $15 trillion to $22 trillion into these welfare programs. Meanwhile, problems in the cities have not improved or have even gotten worse. Our urban K–12 public schools are a disgrace, homelessness runs rampant, and a permanent underclass has developed that cannot escape the inner cities. Academic studies show that while the Great Society programs have transferred trillions of dollars of income to alleviate poverty, they may have also actually harmed communities by creating incentives against family formation, work, and personal responsibility.

This magical thinking that they can spend their way out of a problem. In all reality President Trump did more in for many of these communities, prior to the pandemic, that all the social programs of the Democrats. By lowering unemployment rates, making it possible for people to actually go to work and building something for themselves, the opportunities are endless. Going with the old, give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach him to fish…well we all know that story.