Star Parker is a woman who’s been on both sides of a welfare check, which makes her well-qualified to know what’s effective when it comes to helping people out of poverty, and what isn’t. And Obama’s policies aren’t; hence the “F”.
In the video below, Parker talks with Reason TV (source: Breitbart’s Big Government), explaining that the “rules” of welfare: don’t work, don’t save, don’t get married – don’t work – they just keep people “enslaved.” The key to fiscal responsibility is moral responsibility.
Without a moral compass…short of that, you cannot define right from wrong. We want to make sure that they have a moral framework built inside them.
Parker’s organization “CURE” (Center for Urban Renewal & Education) and “Poverty Cure” (which I wrote about last week) are both advocating solutions grounded in real-world experience. And the common verb “cure” is a perfect representation of their similar missions, they want to help eradicate poverty. The Left merely wants to treat the symptoms, generally worsening the disease in the process.
If President Obama was willing to take a few lessons from these people, perhaps he could bring his “grade” up.