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Well, if nothing else, it helped millions of down and out people when they needed it the most. Efficacy has never been a benchmark of government programs, especially Republican favorites. Consider the failed War on Drugs for example. Uncounted billions spent, individual's rights trampled, prisons filled to capacity, yet we still have a drug problem. War on Terror is another one. Trillions spent, hundreds of thousands dead, several countries' infrastructures destroyed, millions homeless, yet more terrorism than ever. Did you know that, you condescending bitch?How is that stupid? That has been the repug modus operandi for a long time. Cut social programs for the poor, cut taxes for the rich.God that is some stupid leftist shit...even for you Joe.Dumb again Joe.
You EXPECT him!
Do you fail to see how stupid that is?
Yes, I expect people to live up to their beliefs...
When someone says he believes in Jesus, I don't expect him to yank food out of the mouths of poor children to give tax cuts to billionaires.
If you really believe that, you just proved you are a dupe of the DNC Bolshevik elite media.
Did you know that after half a century, and $trillions lost, the poverty rate is nearly identical to what it was when the racist Democrat LBJ initiated it?
Throwing money at the problem has neither reduced poverty nor made the poor self-sufficient.
Did you know that, you dunce?
"Well, if nothing else, it helped millions of down and out people when they needed it the most. "
No it didn't, you imbecile.
From Peter Ferrara, “America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb,” chapter five.
- The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Such should be the epitaph of Liberalism.
- ‘Welfare’ as a wholly owned subsidiary of the government, and its main result is the incentivizing of a disrespect for oneself, and for the entity that provides the welfare. As more folks in a poor neighborhood languish with little or no work, entire local culture begins to change: daily work is no longer the expected social norm. Extended periods of hanging around the neighborhood, neither working nor going to school becoming more and more socially acceptable.
- Since productive activity not making any economic sense because of the work disincentives of the welfare plantation, other kinds of activities proliferate: drug and alcohol abuse, crime, recreational sex, illegitimacy, and family breakup are the new social norms, as does the culture of violence.
- "The lessons of history … show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit."
These searing words about Depression-era welfare are from Franklin Roosevelt's 1935 State of the Union Address. - On Dec. 7, 2012, liberal New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof offered an unexpected concession:
“This is painful for a liberal to admit, but … America’s safety net can sometimes entangle people in a soul-crushing dependency. Our poverty programs do rescue many people, but other times they backfire.”