The principles are clear and explicit. The free market is fine for the third world and its growing counterpart at home. Mothers with dependent children can be sternly lectured on the need for self-reliance, but not dependent executives and investors, please. For them, the welfare state must flourish.
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When a poor man goes to the market, often he comes home with only tears
When a poor man goes to the market, often he comes home with only tears
The welfare of the people is the ultimate law
The welfare of the people is the ultimate law
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
If everybody in town donates one threat, the poor man has a shirt
If everybody in town donates one threat, the poor man has a shirt
Welfare is hated by those who administer it, mistrusted by those who pay for it and held in contempt by read more
Welfare is hated by those who administer it, mistrusted by those who pay for it and held in contempt by those who receive it.
The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that read more
The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to "help."
We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and read more
We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.
The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the read more
The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: read more
Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
