Left Erupts Over Congressman Daring to Say the Things Everyone Else is Too Afraid To Say

Caroline Schaeffer
On January 11, 2014
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When Texas Representative Louie Gohmert (R) took to the House floor on the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “War on Poverty,” he used the opportunity to speak a few truths that the Left is obviously too afraid to admit.
Although the welfare system makes life worse for the people it affects, liberals on the web andat MSNBC have begun denouncing Gohmert, saying he is “demonizing” these young women.
Opposition to welfare, in liberals’ eyes, means passing judgement on single mothers. It means acknowledging that their current situation is bad. And liberals can’t handle that reality.
Watch the entire video from beginning to end and see if he’s he’s “outraged,” “uncaring,” or “out-of-control.” As a judge in Texas, Gohmert saw young, single mothers come before him, charged with welfare fraud. He explains that these women with no other options would drop out of high school and have children out of wedlock in order to receive checks from the government, courtesy of “The War on Poverty.”
One women had had 15 kids, didn’t even know where they all were, that was the most that I ever dealt with. It began to really eat away with me that in the 60s the federal government, desiring to help poor moms who were dealing with deadbeat dads, decided, ‘We’ll help, we’ll give a check for every child you can have out of wedlock.’
This creates a vicious cycle of dependence, he argues, which discourages these women from continuing their education or getting married. The children born to these women spent their childhood living in poverty. In the long run, he found, the War on Poverty didn’t help single moms or their children “one iota.”
The Left would prefer to uphold a broken system instead of facing the hard truths of the program. Their “judgement-free” attitude does a disservice to these young women, their children, and the future of our country.
Bravo to Rep. Gohmert for his courage to speak up in support of reform, common sense, and the realities of President Johnson’s War on Poverty.

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