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August 24, 2011
(Video) Marco Rubio: 'The free enterprise system has lifted more people out of poverty than all the government anti-poverty programs combined'
Topics: Political News and commentariesMarco Rubio spoke at the Reagan library Tuesday night on "the proper role of government," making the point that "poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty." Notice that he doesn't need a teleprompter - speaks from his heart - and says what's long-needed to be said. When Rubio speaks, it's well worth taking the time to hear what he has to say in its entirety. (H/t - Nice Deb):
"The No. 1 objective of our economic policy -- in fact, the singular objective of our economic policy -- from a government perspective is simple: It's growth,"Rubio also linked social and economic policy -- two sides of the same coin, although they are rarely treated as such.... "It's not distribution of wealth. It's not picking winners and losers. The goal of our public policy should be growth, growth in our economy, growth in the number of jobs, growth in opportunity -- equality of opportunity, through our government policies."
..."Our poverty does not create our social problems; our social problems create our poverty," ...
Rubio isn't alone in believing that anti-poverty programs cause more poverty, not less. As we pointed out yesterday, a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that Americans increasingly believe government anti-poverty programs cause more poverty in this country, with 49% of American Adults now believing that government programs increase the level of poverty in the United States, while just 20% say they decrease the problem. Nearly as many (19%) say the programs have no impact.
And here's Star Parker, the founder and president of CURE, the Center for Urban Renewal Education, a 501(c)(3) non-profit think tank which promotes market based public policy to fight poverty, on Fox Business talking about how welfare dependency destroys black families:
And as we also pointed out yesterday, way back in 1985 James Gwartney and Thomas S. McCaleb reported in the Cato journal (with tables) that while the intentions of the architects of the War on Poverty were noble, their approach to reducing the incidence of poverty has proven counterproductive. The current system of income transfers confronts the poor with perverse incentives that discourage self-help efforts in the short run and induces recipients to make decisions that retard their ability to escape poverty in the long run. The system unwittingly encourages behavior that leads to and perpetuates poverty.
They went on to nail exactly what remains wrong with our government programs to this very day - suggesting that in order for public policy to alleviate poverty it must be consistent with four basic principles - all of which run counter to and are anathema to liberal-progressive's (i.e. Barack Obama's) wealth-redistribution agenda.
Unfortunately, virtually none of Gwartney's and McCaleb's suggestions were ever implemented ... and our government's anti-poverty programs continue to be a dismal failure because liberal-progressives are fixed on wealth-redistribution and the nanny state - and continue to block every effort to correct the problems so many of us recognize and that Gwartney and McCaleb detailed.
If our nation is fortunate enough to have Marco Rubio as its Vice President after 2012 ... we may begin to see real change - the kind that actually has a positive outcome - something far different than the disaster thrust upon us by the election of 2008.
Posted by Richard at August 24, 2011 12:23 PM
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