Today’s Editors’ Choice

• Larry Elder: Urban America’s Underclass: More Money Won’t Solve the Problems
• Tony Perkins: Libs Take Issue With SPLC
• Gary S. Smith: The Founders and the Presidents: A July Fourth Reflection

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Opinion in Brief

Larry Elder: “In the 50 years following President Lyndon Johnson’s launch of the ‘war on poverty’ in 1964, government spent over $22 trillion on welfare and various anti-poverty programs. The problem in our nation’s inner cities is not a lack of money — it is a moral and spiritual problem largely created by our welfare state. The welfare system encourages women to marry the government and allows men to abandon their financial and moral responsibilities. The problem is fatherlessness. … As long as blacks feel and act oppressed, as if they are under siege and behind enemy lines, little will change. The formula is simple, but it requires effort: Hard work wins; you get out of life what you put into it; you cannot control the outcome, but you are 100 percent in control of the effort. Go to school, study, work hard, arrive early, stay late, pay attention to detail and be honest. That is the best ‘anti-poverty program’ ever conceived.”