[… Barack Obama spoke on Father’s Day about the tragic flight of so many American fathers, especially black fathers, from their children’s lives.]

[In 2006, for the first time in U.S. history, a majority of all births to women under 30 — 50.4 percent — were out of wedlock. Nearly 80 percent of births among black women were out of wedlock.]

[By comparison, when John F. Kennedy was elected president in 1960, just 6 percent of all births were to unmarried women under 30.]

Let’s see…what happened during the sixties and seventies that may have contributed to this dramatic upturn? Could it be, Mr. Herbert, that that’s about the time Johnson was unveiling his “Great Society” on America? You remember the idea that we were going to fight and win a war on poverty by making Uncle Sam the daddy to American children, especially the blacks. How did that war go?  By your own stats, it was a dismal failure. Except that it bribed blacks who now vote at a Saddam Hussein-like 90% for the Democrats! That was the purpose of Johnson’s plan. It worked.

It’s a sad fact that liberals never seem to learn. Let me restate it…when you give people incentives for changing their behavior; they will eventually change their behavior.

[“Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important,” said Senator Obama, “And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation ...

“But if we are honest with ourselves, we’ll admit that too many fathers are missing — missing from too many lives and too many homes. They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it.”]

Let’s see. Obama makes a speech that says that fathers are important and implores them to retake their responsibility (after the Federal government stuck their nose in the middle of our social order and completely destroyed the black family.) And Mr. Obama calls for MORE incentives to be given (out of the national treasury, of course) that would bribe these absentee fathers to magically retake their responsibility? How about the government stays the hell out of the social structure entirely? Where in our founding papers is it written that Washington has ANY such role? The government is the only institution in history that can consistently fail and then claim that “if only” they had more resources or more time or more bureaucrats or more programs or more oversight that somehow all of our concerns could be dealt with.

[Senator Obama… talked about the need for certain policy changes to make it easier for young men to fulfill their parental obligations — for example, offering tax incentives and job training to those making a sincere effort.]

Yeah, that’s it. Let’s bribe them some more! It worked so well the first time.

[But a lot more is needed. One of the main reasons out-of-wedlock births have skyrocketed in recent decades is because it has become so difficult for poor and poorly educated young men to earn enough to support a family.]

So what is this now? The poor can’t earn enough to support their families, so let’s raid the treasury to bail them out? I had 2 children and no wife at the age of 21. I was fortunate to have family help, but I’ll be damned if I ever looked to Washington for crumbs. Its called pride; a trait sorely lacking in the inner cities and mocked by do-gooding liberals. Obama knows better.

I do notice however that there never seems to be a shortage of pimped out cars and “bling”-laden homeboys spending their meager earnings looking for more booty.

And this fool points his finger at me?

[There is no doubt that a lot of clowns have fathered babies when they shouldn’t have…]

And there is no doubt the NY Times hires some of these clowns when they shouldn’t have…

[The U.S. economy does not come close to providing decent employment — enough jobs — for everyone who wants to work. At the lowest end of the economic ladder the crisis in employment is reminiscent of the Great Depression in its intensity.]

This is, quite simply a lie. Unemployment has hovered around the full employment mark for years. Herbert does his best Stalin impression. If you’re going to lie, you might as well make it a whopper and constantly repeat it, until it becomes the accepted truth

[It is in this group of poor and educationally deprived young people that out-of-wedlock births are highest.]

No. Amazing insight, this Herbert. I never would have guessed.

[“Unfortunately, the mean annual earnings of young men without four-year college degrees have plummeted substantially over the past 30 years, and declined again over the 2000-2007 period. Declining economic fortunes of young men without college degrees underlie the rise in out-of-wedlock child-bearing, and they are creating a new demographic nightmare for the nation.”]

Herbert quotes an academic here who seems to say that one can only thrive and be a good father if one has a four year degree. Nonsense. Have you called the plumber lately? Or hired a carpenter? Or ridden on a train or a bus? Or seen the paystub of a union laborer or Teamster? My father was a laborer and raised five. He never once asked the government for a handout.

I’ve never read such crap. And they pay this jerk to write?

Obama and Bob Herbert: typical liberal snobs.

[Employment is the master key to the thriving families that Senator Obama talked about and that are supposed to be the American ideal.]

You think? In order to thrive, you need a job? Such a stroke of brilliance, again stated by the holy one: Barack the Great.

Not to put too fine a point on my pencil here, but I would like to remind Herbert, Obama and every other socialist hack who promote a nanny state existence for their subjects that I, alone, am responsible for any and all actions I take. I demand my rewards when I have earned them and I accept the punishment and ridicule I have coming when I fail. Why are minorities routinely excused from taking the personal responsibility that most others naturally assume?

 Government, except in extreme circumstances, should play absolutely no role in our life choices.

Please stop trying to help. You can’t. And you have historically only made things worse.