Irony

AN INTERESTING BUT SAD IRONY When President Johnson took over for Kennedy he proposed what has become known as the War on Poverty as part of his Great Society. I thought this was a good idea and voted for him when he ran in 1964. Now that I have 50 years of hind sight I have concluded that this was just one more idea based on good intentions that ended up with unexpected consequences. Over this time the federal government has spent 8 trillion dollars or if you’re a cynic the government has taken money from people who earned it and given it to people who have not earned it. In the 60’s we had 15% of the people living in poverty and today we have 15% living in poverty. The main impetus of the War was to help the inner city blacks. Let’s see how we have done. The drop-out rate in the inner city schools has doubled over the past 50 from 25% to 50%. The number of black babies born to unwed mothers has tripled from 25% to 75%. Today black males represent 40% of people in prison but only 12% of the population and this is double what it was in the 60’s. Today half of all homicides are blacks killing blacks and in the 60’s it was half of that. Now here is the irony. Since Roe v Wade in 1973 there have been 52 million recorded abortions and 40% of those were black women meaning that 20 million black babies have been aborted in the past 50 years. If they had lived they would have grown to 40 million which is the total number of blacks in the country today. In other words we have killed off half the black population. Since we have 900,000 blacks in prison we could reasonably assume that if these abortions had not happened we would have twice that many black males in prison. Instead of 8000 black on black murders last year we would have had 16,000. An interesting point is that at the height of slavery we had fewer black slaves than the number of black prisoners we have today. About 600,000 slaves were imported to the US and by 1860 when slavery ended there were about 4 million blacks in the US. That number represents only one fifth of the number of black babies that have been aborted in the past 50 years. This whole discussion reminds me of the people who point out that if it weren’t for smoking, social security would already be broke. I warned you about irony.