The Heritage Foundation Presents - Welfare at 10

The Heritage Foundation Presents - Welfare at 10. A look at the past, present and future of welfare in America.

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[kennny732]

CONSERV-A-NUTS hate widows orphans and cripples

[jjtb4v]

Isn't it odd that the Koch Industry is receiving welfare from OUR tax dollars and they give us the line about how the poor on welfare are the ones who are raping the system? I wonder how many poor people can be housed, fed, and clothed for what the Koch Industries get per year in subsidies?

[bastardrob]

RETARDED

[auditthepolls]

Yes the government has been giving more and more money to the rich. Passing laws that increase the divide and eliminate the middle class. And it gives its money to those who make campaign contributions. So a 4th generation billionaire is successful because he didn't become poor, and a 4th generation poor person is a failure because he didn't become rich? You have a strange view.

[photon1138]

Huh..? Give the wealthy to the rich? Where the hell did the money come from to begin with? Do you even know what money is? Money is a store of wealth, a medium of exchange, a utility with intrinsic value.  Before a single dollar can be stolen or mooched and handed out to the poor (failures) it must first be earned by the achievers. Such is modern liberalism, an emotionaly charged state of mind and behavior fueled on envy.

[znotty]

Funny place America the poorer you are the more your hated & when they talk about "reform" they really mean leave em to starve in the street & give the money to the rich.

[MikeyMcCrashCap]

Of course the war on poverty does not end poverty. Charity, it seems, is not enough for welfare scum. You dump billions of dollars on the welfare baby making pieces of trash, and they still claim they are poor. Poor piece of shit contributors to the human race.

[kgj08]

When a corporation or small business gets to keep more of their money, they will most likely invest that money. Everybody knows that new business investments are costly and profits may not start coming in until 2, 5, or even 10 years down the road. So who receives the earliest benefits from business investments? The American worker. As opposed to the business who sees their profits come in say 5 years, the worker sees their profits come in 2 weeks.

[kgj08]

I am certainly not saying that you don't have good intentions, but you have to look at the economic facts. Welfare reform actually reduced poverty and helped increased real GDP. Reagan's corporate tax cuts increased everyone's salaries and created 21 million new jobs. Remember, conservatives don't believe in trickle down economics. They actually believe in trickle up economics.

[kgj08]

Of course some welfare programs are needed. I think that everyone realizes that. But look at Lyndon Johnson's welfare policies. He wanted single parents to receive more money than married couples with children. This sounds like a fine idea, but everything is a trade off and this had disastrous consequences. Black women started to not marry the father of their children to receive more money, and now today we see that 70% of black babies are born to a single mother.