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Programs designed to ensure that money stays within a specific community are good in theory. The idea behind them is that by promoting investment in companies based in that community you strengthen a financially disadvantaged community rather than exporting the few dollars that community generates. The problem is that many of these programs are the result of unfunded federal and state mandates that become a burden to the small business owner. Ideally, these programs would be funded mandates that would provide job training and business counseling for small business owners, thus creating profitable and competent small business entities that can in turn reinvest in their communities. Unfortunately, the dominant political ideology in this country is based on putting band-aids on problems instead of fixing them so money gets spent on welfare programs instead of community development.
As far as your comment on "the Black man taking advantage of the system" that has to be one of the most ignorant arguments that is constantly perpetuated in this county. The neighborhood that I grew up in has a large number of people on public assistance, still most of my generation has attended college and most of us are productive members of society. There are Black and White families in my neighborhood that pass poverty and public assistance from one generation to the next like it was a family heirloom, but the majority are hard working people that were unable to get a college education in the 50s and 60s dues to lack of funds, opportunity or other commitments but work hard to ensure their children have something better. Others are just lazy and would rather get knocked up and collect a check than go to work. That’s an issue of people, not race. Try getting your facts from real sources instead of right wing pundits and propaganda.
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I know Nietzsche doesnt rhyme with peachy, but you sound like a pretentious prick when you correct me.
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