Star Parker: Welfare dependency destroys black families

Stuart Varney: It is entitlement week on Fox Business network. Star Parker, admitted former welfare cheat and president of CURE, is live with us now. Star, welcome to the program.

Star Parker: Well, thank you, it's good to be back with you.

Varney: Indeed it is. We've been running clips earlier in the program of your interview with John Stossel where you're saying how easy it was to get a couple of checks a month to pay for your food and all the rest of it. Here's my question, though. When you were on welfare, when you were cheating and doing it, did you feel you were cheating or did you feel, 'hey look, it's out there, I'm entitled to it.' Give it to me. How did you feel when you were doing it?

Star: I didn't have any feelings. I was also on drugs. It didn't matter because I had bought the lie that poor people are poor because rich people are rich so I didn't have any problem with going on welfare to pay for my life. But now remember, you didn't have to use your check to pay for food because you also get food stamps.

Varney: So when you were on welfare, you got cash welfare, you certainly got food stamps, your rent was paid for, medical treatment was paid for...was everything paid for by the government?

Star: Yes, everything was paid for by the government, but keep in mind that Uncle Sam is cruel to the poor. These programs don't work for them. We have over 4,000 housing projects in this country. It's not working for the people -- you just get addicted to it like any other drug and you start depending on that life and it spirals you into a little dark hole.

Varney: So, I've been making a point this week that the recipients of this extensive entitlement program, that the recipients are actually destroyed by it. Now that's a very strong thing of me to say. Would you agree with it?

Star: I absolutely agree. The recipient is not only destroyed, but their personal dignity, and then they become much more addicted for all of their lives, but whole communities are destroyed. Let's look at what happened, for instance in the black community -- the impact of this entitlement mentality and welfare -- government dependency.

After the war on poverty in the 60s, we began to see the unraveling of the entire black community because the family collapsed. During the 60s, the black family was pretty healthy. Seventy-eight percent of husbands were in their homes with their wives raising their children. But after this lure to government that said "you don't have to work, you don't have to save, you don't have to get married," over time marriage stopped occurring to where now 7 out of 10 black children are born outside of marriage and what happens when you don't have that intact family is your values change. So your culture changes. So your community changes.

Varney: You're out there now very publicly saying the entitlement mentality is a very bad thing, it destroys communities. What's the reaction to you now saying what you're saying?

Star: Well, depends on who I'm saying it to. Some give me death threats and others say 'tell us more.' How did you get out? And that's one of the reasons I wrote my book "Uncle Sam's Plantation" because I want people to understand that they don't have to live at the hand of the government.

You know, I'm spending my life, as you said, I'm running an organization here in Washington, DC, spending my life, I suppose, to pay back society to get everybody off of welfare. I just feel there are some contributions that everybody can make without Uncle Sam telling them 'don't worry about your life, just live off our hand from womb to tomb.'

Varney: I just want to know, real briefly, get a lot of hostility?

Star: Do I get hostility? Well, of course I do. Hey, being a black conservative in this society is social suicide: you live alone, you have a lonely life.

Varney: Well, welcome to the program, it's very good to have you. It's Star Parker.

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Star Parker appears on Varney and Company explaining how the entitlement mentality has destroyed the black family.

"Welfare is a lure that tells families that they don't have to work, save or get married."

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[SWWC1]

I am able to say that after I cut myself and my five children off welfare in 1992 we where homeless several times, and for many years I struggled to learn how to live without welfare. Today I am the President and founder of SWWC relief systems, Single Women With Children Relief Systems helping single women with children from all over the world with emergency needs. I raised nine children, can a parent live without welfare? yes they can.

[astralislux]

@StrahaoftheRace She is brilliant! And she has a college degree.

[SWWC1]

It is not unusual that one would think that our funding comes from the Government. You are wrong.

[endwelfare]

@SWWC1 where does your group get funding? i assume from the government and if so then you are still on welfare

[josephc28]

@TheCaliCapitalist You dont create jobs with higher taxes and more regulation. Just look at California. That's why California has lost so many manufacturing jobs. Cali's budget deficit doesn't help either, because this makes the state gov't all the more hungry for more taxes. Jobs and workers are leaving Cali. The federal government needs to learn a lesson from this, because they are moving the entire country in the same direction California finds itself in.

[TheCaliCapitalist]

There needs to be job creation in those neighborhood. Remember in the 80's when republicans sent millions of jobs overseas and to Latin America creating a massive hole. The fact of the matter is in many places there simply isn't a real job to be had. Also AFDC requires people to work or show proof that your looking for a job. This woman is rich do to the fact that she used welfare to get back on her feet by writing books about how harmful welfare is.

[recalcitrist1]

@TheCaliCapitalist "Republicans are horrible at creating jobs?"

If you actually were a capitalist, you'd know that the only thing Democrats are good at is creating government jobs.

[recalcitrist1]

This is what MLK fought for?....for liberals to enable thousands of blacks to sit on their asses and feel like the country owes them everything without working for it, because their ancestors were slaves?

[angelicwarrior31]

See it's bitches like her that make it hard for hardworking tax payers as myself to receive assistance when needed i need help to pay my rent but now every agency we went to are saying there are no funds to help me but obama just gave 4.1million dollars to my county alone for homelessness prevention,but bitches like her,and crack heads,ex cons,welfare queens ,etc get all these benefits on my dime and i'm angry about it!

[seanpierpont]

it is sad that people are not critical thinkers and give her a hard time instead of being intelligent enough to understand that diversity exist in our black race and we all do not think alike...so sad