{"id":8046,"date":"2012-07-17T16:17:31","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T23:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=8046"},"modified":"2012-07-19T16:21:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T23:21:29","slug":"the-dependency-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/the-dependency-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dependency Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8047\" title=\"Dependency_Agenda_01_150px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dependency_Agenda_01_150px.jpg\" alt=\"The Dependency Agenda Creating an Entitlement Society\" width=\"150\" height=\"220\" \/>by Kevin D. Williamson &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>Each year, the United States spends $65,000 per poor family to &#8220;fight poverty&#8221; &#8212; in a country in which the average family income is just under $50,000. Meanwhile, most of that money goes to middle-class and upper-middle-class families, and the current U.S. poverty rate is higher than it was before the government began spending trillions of dollars on antipoverty programs.<\/p>\n<p>The Dependency Agenda uncovers the hidden politics of the welfare state and documents the historical evidence that proves that Lyndon B. Johnson&#8217;s &#8220;Great Society&#8221; was designed to do one thing: maximize the number of Americans dependent upon the government. The welfare state was never meant to eliminate privation; it was created to keep Democrats in power. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9W6A5nj3lzY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Learn more here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.encounterbooks.com\/books\/the-dependency-agenda\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.encounterbooks.com\/books\/the-dependency-agenda\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kevin D. Williamson &#8211; Each year, the United States spends $65,000 per poor family to &#8220;fight poverty&#8221; &#8212; in a country in which the average family income is just under $50,000. Meanwhile, most of that money goes to middle-class and upper-middle-class families, and the current U.S. poverty rate is higher than it was before &#8230; <a title=\"The Dependency Agenda\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/the-dependency-agenda\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Dependency Agenda\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,72,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-leftism","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}