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The Great Society interfered with progress taking place: Jason Riley - YouTube
Channel: Fox Business
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my next guest writes in an op-ed for the
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wall street journal this week
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the destructive legacy of the great
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society government subsidies for
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anti-social behavior stalled decades
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worth of black progress
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joining me now is jason reilly wall
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street journal columnist fox news
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contributor and
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author of the book maverick a biography
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of thomas soule jason it was a wonderful
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piece and as only you can write these
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kinds of pieces and no i mean it's a
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great service particularly with the
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debate now that i want to get to in a
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minute about expanding the great society
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but your basic point all right i'll just
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read a quick thing between 1940 and 1960
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the percentage of black families living
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in poverty declined by 40 points
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as blacks increased their years of
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education and
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migrated from poor rural areas to more
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prosperous urban environments no welfare
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program has ever come close to
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replicating that rate of black
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advancement and your point is if you can
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expand on it
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the great society was
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a hindrance
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not a help
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is that right
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exactly it interfered with progress that
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was taking place and it interfered in
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ways that either slowed that progress
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down in other words poverty continued to
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fall after the implementation of these
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great society programs but at a much
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much slower rate than it was before in
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other cases uh positive trends stalled
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entirely or even reversed and so for
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instance uh you know in the early 1960s
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two out of three black kids were being
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raised by a mother and a father uh more
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recently today it's
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more than you know more than 70 percent
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are not and in some of our inner cities
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it's as high as 80 or 90 percent so the
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great society aimed to decrease poverty
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uh what it ended up doing is increasing
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dependency and not just among blacks but
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among all groups we've seen uh
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family disintegration among whites as
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well and then so that these were
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well-intentioned policies that had bad
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side effects and we seem to be in this
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latest bill doubling down on on what
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hasn't worked in the past well that's
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just where i was going to go you read my
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mind
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what can we learn from this and you know
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shouldn't we be talking about this the
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reason i was dying to have you on the
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show is to give you as much visibility
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as possible people need to hear this
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because look what we're embarked on and
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you know whatever five trillion dollars
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more it's not good yeah
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it's in it and it's not just about the
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material well-being of individuals larry
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it's also has to do with the
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productivity of the country as a whole
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you as you know for many of these
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democrats and progressives in congress
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their their model is is western europe
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and the social welfare states over there
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which are huge and europe has made a
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trade-off they've decided we'll have
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higher unemployment rates and we'll be
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less productive because we want a bigger
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welfare state i'm not sure that's what
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we want in america but that is the
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direction in which we're going a lot of
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these programs that the democrats are
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pushing are for middle class individuals
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people making a hundred thousand dollars
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a year two hundred thousand dollars a
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year family leave programs child care
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tax credits and so forth free college
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these are middle class entitlements and
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to the extent that you are encouraging
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more people in america to uh uh to to to
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go on government relief effectively um
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you're going to have a smaller workforce
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and guess what that's going to make us
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less productive as a country larry and
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the thing that drives me stark raving
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mad jason riley
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is all this repeals
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the gingrich clinton reforms and welfare
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25 years ago so jason all the things you
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mentioned you know the family leave and
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the child credits and all the rest of it
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no
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work requirements and no education
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requirements and this i think is a
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dreadful thing
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it is and and welfare reform worked in
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the 90s
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poverty decreased child poverty
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decreased poverty among single moms
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decreased it worked
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giving people incentives to go back to
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work tying benefits to work for
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able-bodied individuals was a good thing
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and to the extent we move away from that
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again
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we we get more dependency on government
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and all the other negative things that
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come with more dependency on government
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we should not want to go back down this
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road
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yes sir jason riley can't thank you
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enough great stuff and by the way i have
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read most of the tom soul book i've
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known tom soul um well done well done
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thank you thank you very much
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