“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.”

From John Farnham's DTI QUIPS (H/T "GMan")

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13 May 15 “It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.” Voltaire Black Americans who show-up for work every day, are self-sustaining and contributing, who take good care of their families, and who despise government  “assistance” are considered “runaway slaves” by leftist politicians. Conversely, ones who dutifully remain in rotting, inner-city ghettos, where  the Democrats and Rinos want them, on government plantations where they plant  votes instead of cotton, are told by the leftist media that someone else is  always responsible for their plight, that they can never amount to anything and  must never try, and that they should cynically revile and despise real heroes  like Ben Carson and Clarence Thomas. When Bill Cosby came out publicly telling young black men to get jobs, be good fathers, raise good families, pay their bills, be productive citizens, and  obey the law, suddenly legions of women magically appeared out of nowhere, all  with astonishing “memory recall” of the terrible things he did.  Up until  then, they had been curiously silent!  Just a coincidence, I’m sure! 
Starting with LBJ’s dubious “Great Society” and “War on Poverty,” the federal government, under firm control of liberals, has relentlessly driven fathers away from their families.  No coincidence this time. Functional families have been dissolved by an insidious welfare system that encourages, indeed demands, fatherless households.   Accordingly, manufacturing and maintaining a permanent, non-productive, prideless underclass has assured liberal/leftist politicians of an ever-expanding vote-mine they can exploit at will, keeping themselves ever in luxurious positions of power, along with rich supporters, while the few that remain in the productive middle class are milked white, and the idle, dependent underclass remains “in their place.” Proud, productive, energetic, moral, enterprising Americans are replaced with pathetically dependent welfare-junkies.  Limitless opportunity has  been replaced with dreary, hopeless, endless dependency. All good for career, despotic politicians who have long-since forgotten who  is working for whom.  But, a bleak future for the rest of us! “The two enemies of the People are (1) criminals and (2) government, so let's tie the second down with chains of the Constitution, so the second will not become a legalized version of the  first.”
Jefferson  Unfortunately, they have! /John