Goverment versus The People Quotes

“The leftist wisdom that it takes a government to raise a child has been shown in practice to be a perverse untruth. Government can destroy a child. It can destroy entire communities. Given enough latitude and time, and enough power, it can destroy a nation.”
― John Perazzo, Goverment versus The People

“When Vice President Al Gore, a progressive supporter of teacher unions and opponent of school vouchers, was asked why he opposed school vouchers for black children while sending his own son to a private school, he said, “If I was the parent of a child who went to an inner-city school that was failing, I might be for vouchers, too.”106”
― John Perazzo, Goverment versus The People

“According to the U.S. Census, in 2008 the poverty rate for single parents with children was 35.6%, while the rate for married couples with children was 6.4%.”
― John Perazzo, Goverment versus The People

“The welfare state has done to black Americans what slavery couldn’t do, what Jim Crow couldn’t do, what the harshest racism couldn’t do. And that is to destroy the black family.”88”
― John Perazzo, Goverment versus The People

“Meanwhile, under the new welfare laws, economic incentives were offered to female recipients of financial assistance to shun marriage and avoid the formation of two-parent families. For”
― John Perazzo, Goverment versus The People

“Post–Civil War studies show that most black couples in their forties had been together for at least twenty years.”
― John Perazzo, Goverment versus The People

“When the Center for Responsible Lending issued a report in June 2010, it estimated that by then, 17% of Hispanic homeowners and 11% of black homeowners (as compared to 7% of whites) had already lost their homes or were in imminent danger of losing them.43 Those losses resulted from the “soft bigotry of low expectations” that President Bush had warned against but then succumbed to, under pressure from the left.”
― John Perazzo, Goverment versus The People

“In just a few years, the time-tested practices of the entire lending industry had been abandoned under government pressure. One in five mortgages were now financed by subprime loans, and loans with no money down had risen to nearly 14% of all mortgages.39 Denying the laws of financial gravity was not a practice that could go on indefinitely, and it soon led to a tidal wave of home foreclosures across the United States.”
― John Perazzo, Goverment versus The People

“Pressure to revise the lending procedures came from radical community organizations such as ACORN and the Greenlining Institute, which were able to create an intimidating atmosphere by accusing banks of discriminatory practices contrary to the CRA mandates. The”
― John Perazzo, Goverment versus The People

“if a bank failed to meet its quota for loans to low-income minorities, it ran a high risk of failing to earn a “satisfactory” CRA rating from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.”
― John Perazzo, Goverment versus The People

“It is this issue—the welfare of others and especially the weak and vulnerable —that conservatives must begin to address if they are to hold their own in the debate and gain a hearing for the principles they hold dear. To”
― John Perazzo, Goverment versus The People

“The battle over the expansion of an already too powerful state is the crucial battle of our times. It is the battle to preserve liberty and individual freedom, the core of what America is about. Trillion-dollar”
― John Perazzo, Goverment versus The People

“An extreme—not to say absurd—version of the “two Americas” is the “1% versus the 99%” fantasy cooked up by the “Occupy Wall Street” radicals. In”
― John Perazzo, Goverment versus The People