Frank wrote on Mar 13
th, 2023 at 4:00pm:
Thanks for going straight to the source, re gap statistics.
"Socioeconomic outcome area 4
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children thrive in their early years"The problem is: the poverty industry bureaucrats writing this stuff, and seeing the world through an obsolete neoclassical economics lens, take it for granted that white kids are "thriving in their early years".....whereas we know 1 in 6 kids in Oz are not thriving but living in poverty, and running amok in places like Mt Isa and Townsville.
Quote:There are thousands of Aboriginal- targeted education, housing, employment programs. Those who access them are lifted out of poverty, misery, unemployment. Those who don't aren't. Horse, water- water, horse.
The question is: why do some black kids AND some white kids NOT access all those government services?
Answer: the poverty industry itself is a barrier.
So, rather than 'welfare' (a misnomer), we need jobs for all, since "the best form of welfare is a job"(... now who said that?....)
Quote:The Aboriginal elders and leaders on the ground should be leading their people. But they aren't. They are presiding over unspeakable degradation of Aborigines by other Aborigines. Rape, beating, theft, robbery, fighting, drinking
Correct; unfortunately you can't lead a people demoralized by the crushing of their culture, and offered 'sit-down money' as compensation. It won't work, because 'sit-down money' won't fix the demoralization.
Quote:- nobody does that to his own people because of "systemic racism".
"sit-down money" -
as it applies to blacks - IS systemic racism , ie the
system which uses the dole (and unemployment) to control wage inflation IS racist, because the people most badly affected are blacks (with unemployment rates double that of non blacks).
Whereas with regard to whites, the dole 'merely' entrenches
systemic disadvantage among those forced onto the unemployment scrap heap.