by Terence P Jeffrey. The Census Bureau reported in a study released this week that 65 percent of American children lived in households taking aid from one or more federal program as of the fall of 2011. "Almost two-thirds (65 percent) of children," said the Census Bureau, "lived in households that participated in at least one or more of the ... MORE
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Showing posts with label welfare state. Show all posts
Obama: US Taxpayers Must Pay For Illegals’ Children
by Neil Munro. A redistribution from citizens to non-citizens. Illegal immigrants will receive huge payments from American taxpayers under rules now being imposed by President Barack Obama’s unilateral amnesty. The illegals will get work-permits and Social Security cards, and will be required to pay taxes, according to Cecilia Munoz, the former ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: A Legacy Of Liberalism
"Legacy of slavery" not the issue. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said there were "phrases that serve as an excuse for not thinking." One of these phrases that substitute for thought today is one that depicts the current problems of blacks in America as "a legacy of slavery." New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof asserts that ... MORE
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Blacks,
civil rights,
law enforcement,
liberalism,
politics,
slavery,
Supreme Court,
welfare state
Have Entitlements Become More Attractive Than Work?
A new food stamp pattern. The food stamp program (more formally, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) is intended to help low-income Americans with their food bills. Traditionally, the number of Americans receiving SNAP benefits rises during poor economic times and falls during good ones. But that is not what is ... MORE
John Stossel - Good Intentions, Incentives And Poverty
The great conceit of central planners. Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson declared "War on Poverty." It sounded great to me. I was taught at Princeton, "We're a rich country. All we have to do is tax the rich, and then use that money to create programs that will lift the poor out of poverty." Government created job-training programs for ... MORE
California Governor Approves Benefits For Illegal Aliens
by Jonah Bennett. Pass Go and collect $200. Thanks to Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown, millions of dollars of aid
will now be available to California’s illegal immigrants, in order to
help them navigate the complexities of the legal system, the Washington Post reports. Illegal immigrants have been streaming across the the southern U.S. ... MORE
Michael Booth: Crony Capitalism & Progressive Desparation
What happens when you run out of the people's money? If you hang out at the intersection of Politics Avenue and Economics Boulevard, as I frequently do, you've noticed the ugly fusion of welfare state government and major corporations we have come to call "crony capitalism." It was a mystery to me why progressives, who ... MORE
The War On Poverty: 50 Years Of Failure
by Robert Rector. This year marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s launch of the War on Poverty. In January 1964, Johnson declared “unconditional war on poverty in America.” Since then, the taxpayers have spent $22 trillion on Johnson’s war. Adjusted for inflation, that’s three times the cost of all military wars since the ... MORE
Keep Them Down, Keep Them Dependent
How to prevent the young and poor from succeeding. Let’s face it. I’m not that young anymore. I’m also not poor anymore, and I live a comfortable middle-class American life. Most older, better off middle-classers like me got where we are through the dynamic market process. The trouble is, now that we’re doing pretty well, that same ... MORE
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demand,
dependency,
free market,
low-skill workers,
opportunity,
supply,
welfare state,
youth
Jacob Hornblower: What Does It Mean To Be Free?
From land of the free to indoctrination nation. Johann von Goethe once wrote, “None are more hopelessly enslaved than
those who falsely believe they are free.” Goethe’s statement perfectly
captures the plight of the American people in our time. That’s one of
the principal challenges that we libertarians face, for if people are
convinced ... MORE
Income Redistribution About Votes, Not Helping The Poor
by Jeffrey Dorfman. Everyone knows the famous Chinese proverb: Give a man a fish and you have fed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you have fed him for a lifetime. So why does the federal government spend so much money on giving away fish and so little on teaching people how to fish? Because Democrats want people to depend on ... MORE
Why The Cost Of Government Is Higher Than You Think
by Gary Galles. Crowding out what matters. “Look what I did for you!” When our children were small, my wife and I
got many gifts from them accompanied with those words (including most of
our
refrigerator art and many things that still adorn our Christmas trees),
in search of approval and encouragement. While that process was an ... MORE
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borrowing,
debt,
economics,
fiscal,
government,
housing,
politicians,
spending,
welfare state
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