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Glenn Grothman: “The Great Society programs in the 1960s were designed to…”

Featuring: Glenn Grothman, Republican | U.S. House of Representatives, Wisconsin, District 6

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Glenn Grothman's Speech on Tax Deductions, Family Incentives, and Low-Income Housing Credits

Published | Video Starts at 05:55

And now we are in a position in which we have over 40% of the children in the country were born out of wedlock. It did not happen by. It did not happen by accident. It happened because The Great Society programs in the 1960s were designed to encourage this sort of behavior [children born out of wedlock]. You may say, who wants to discourage people who are married from having children? In fact, Karl Marx, of course, was very opposed to the traditional family we've known since I've been here. (05:55–06:11)

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