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| Black And Blue 2: Blacks Flee Blue States in Droves |
| 2011-03-30 |
| As I understand it, the author-- Walter Russell Mead-- is a Democrat who supported the Iraq War and voted for 0bama in 2008. The failure of blue social policy to create an environment which works for Blacks is the most devastating possible indictment of the 20th century liberal enterprise in the United States. Helping Blacks achieve the kind of equality and opportunity long denied them was more than one of many justifications for blue social policy: it was the defining moral task that has challenged and shaped American liberalism for the last fifty years. The Census tells us that in the eyes of those who know best, these well intentioned efforts failed. Instead of heaven, we have hell across AmericaÂ’s inner cities. Blue economic policy has cut the creation of new private sector jobs to a trickle in our great cities, while the high costs of public union urban services (and policies that favor government employees over the citizenry at large) impose crippling taxes and contribute to the ruinously high costs that blight opportunity. All the social welfare bureaucracies, diversity counselors and minority set-asides canÂ’t make up for the colossal failure of blue social policy to create sustainable lower middle class prosperity in our cities. RTWT |
| Posted by:eltoroverde |