there was two major US political parties that combined for a “campaign of terror against poor and working class people, especially poor Black and brown people.” For more than two generations the welfare state as we know it is being eradicated. Unemployment and underemployment rate has shot right off the charts. The aid from the government is being cut so rapidly and on such a large scale that more poor and middle class working people will be out on the streets. “Thirty per cent of the manufacturing jobs eliminated by downsizing in 1990 and 1991 were held by blacks. This economic trend, which has persisted for more than a decade with little abatement, means that there now exists a class of permanently unemployed men and women are essentially surplus labuorers in an increasingly ‘streamlined’ economy. These are the men and women whom social scientists condescendingly refer to as the ‘Black underclass’. There have been bills past that are to effect the poor blacks the most the Welfare Bill and the Crime Bill. The welfare bill places a new degree of terrorism on single black mothers. You can only receive welfare for five years in your entire lifetime. Mothers are penalized if they have another child while on welfare. Colleges and Universities are closing their doors to exclude the poor. Funding has been cut for job training to the poor, in a shrinking job market already. Analysts estimate that 2.6 million people, including 1.1 million children will be under the poverty line by the year 2000, just 39 more days away. The Crime Bill has a three strikes rule for provision for violent offender’s treats a high-level drug offense like a foul ball and this puts you away for life. The new death penalty can be applied to large-scale drug importers, sellers, manufacturers or cultivators even if no one is killed. This is basically for young black dope dealers. The system makes it seem as if poverty is th...
