SOTU: Same Old Talk
Tony Perkins, FRC Update: Maybe Nancy Pelosi is right. The government doesn't have a spending problem--it has a hearing problem. For years, voters have pled with Washington to get serious about the deficit, and for years, Washington has ignored them. Now, after digging a $16.5 trillion hole of floating outhouses and Martian food tastings, America is paying the price (or at least the interest) of a decade of reckless spending. Tonight, President Obama will try to prove that he has the answer to the highest levels of poverty, unemployment, joblessness, and economic stagnation our nation has ever seen.
Unfortunately for America, his solution to these crises is expected to be the same as the problem causing them: more spending. White House officials have hinted at a repeat of State of the Unions past, in which the President called for greater "investments" in education and infrastructure. Of course, throwing more money at our problems hasn't worked in the last four years, and there's no reason to believe it will now.
And while President Obama may be content to re-gift the same tired agenda, America isn't buying it. Seventy-three percent of voters now say cutting spending would help strengthen the economy, according to the latest Fox News poll--compared to just 15% of those who believe spending is the answer. It's time for the administration to drop the failed ideology that government is the source of America's greatness and allow the free market, fueled by strong families, get America on the road to economic recovery. Instead of sowing more big government liberalism, it's time for the President to make the connection between America's financial mess and its cultural one. While the Left looks for the answer to violence in gun control or poverty in welfare programs, America's greatest hope continues to be in the home. As FRC's research makes clear, an in tact married family who worships regularly is the antidote for almost every social ill tonight's speech will address.
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Unfortunately for America, his solution to these crises is expected to be the same as the problem causing them: more spending. White House officials have hinted at a repeat of State of the Unions past, in which the President called for greater "investments" in education and infrastructure. Of course, throwing more money at our problems hasn't worked in the last four years, and there's no reason to believe it will now.
And while President Obama may be content to re-gift the same tired agenda, America isn't buying it. Seventy-three percent of voters now say cutting spending would help strengthen the economy, according to the latest Fox News poll--compared to just 15% of those who believe spending is the answer. It's time for the administration to drop the failed ideology that government is the source of America's greatness and allow the free market, fueled by strong families, get America on the road to economic recovery. Instead of sowing more big government liberalism, it's time for the President to make the connection between America's financial mess and its cultural one. While the Left looks for the answer to violence in gun control or poverty in welfare programs, America's greatest hope continues to be in the home. As FRC's research makes clear, an in tact married family who worships regularly is the antidote for almost every social ill tonight's speech will address.
- CRIME: Only 12% of adults who attended religious services at least monthly and lived in an intact married family growing up have ever been picked up or charged by the police, compared to 21% of adults who attended church less than monthly and lived in non-intact families as children.
- ECONOMIC DECLINE: Married families who worship together further lower the risks of economic instabilities both for their own families and for the nation at large, especially during serious downturns. The key investors in both physical and human capital throughout America's history have been stable, married families.
- POVERTY: The married family is less likely to be poor than any other family structure. Only 5.8% of married families were living in poverty in 2009, compared to 16.9% of male householders and 29.9% of female householders. Additionally, intact families are less likely than cohabiting families or single individuals to have ever participated in the Food Stamp Program.
- EDUCATION: Children from intact families exceed their parents' educational attainment (sons by 2.8 years, daughters by 2.5 years), after controlling for mother's level of education. Students who grew up in an intact married family and currently worship at least weekly have higher grade point averages, are more likely to graduate high school, and are more likely to receive a Bachelor's degree than their peers.
- UNEMPLOYMENT: Married-couple families generate the most income, on average. Young married men are more likely to be in the labor force, employed, and working a full-time job than their non-married counterparts. Up to 20% of children are unequipped to compete in the modern economy because of a lack of essential skills that are formed within the intact married family.
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