| Porter Stansberry a financial writer had this to say | | | | destroyed the lower-class, it was the poor policy of |
| about do-gooders: "Good intentions, along with her | | | | giving government money to women who had |
| handmaidens, hypocrisy and envy, are the most | | | | children out of wedlock forever making the father |
| rightfully despised of all human characteristics. Liars | | | | irrelevant in women's lives. |
| are, usually, interesting. Fools can be quite | | | | In 1996 Bill Clinton reformed welfare laws with the |
| entertaining. And a greedy man might make you rich, | | | | "Welfare Reform Act" which encouraged welfare |
| even if only by chance or mistake. But the do-gooder | | | | recipients to get jobs or job training, to make |
| is always a bore and sometimes a tyrant. Good | | | | themselves self-sufficient, and to end their long-term |
| intentions, along with her handmaidens, hypocrisy and | | | | dependency on government. It was a huge success |
| envy, are the most rightfully despised of all human | | | | as it dropped the amount of people on welfare and it |
| characteristics. Liars are, usually, interesting. Fools can | | | | forced people to take more initiative in their lives. |
| be quite entertaining. And a greedy man might make | | | | Now in 2009 we have the Obama Stimulus that plans |
| you rich, even if only by chance or mistake. But the | | | | to increase the taxpayers' money that the federal |
| do-gooder is always a bore and sometimes a tyrant." | | | | government gives to the states for welfare, and |
| LBJ was a typical do-gooder and sought to alleviate | | | | reverses incentives by giving bonuses to states that |
| troubles of the poor here in the U.S. What LBJ ended | | | | put more people on welfare. This last sentence is |
| up doing in the 1960's, with his social programs, was | | | | shocking: The U.S. federal government is going to |
| to destroy the nuclear family by replacing the father | | | | give bonuses to states to increase the amount of |
| as the breadwinner and replacing it with the | | | | people on welfare. The only logical conclusion is that |
| government. His welfare program subsidized | | | | more people will be placed on welfare. Some claim |
| illegitimacy and divorce creating a matriarchal | | | | that the current stimulus package will be worse than |
| relationship with its citizens now reliant on | | | | the Great Society policies of the 1960s because of |
| government handouts. It was not poverty that | | | | the money involved. |