Welfare sayings

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◆ God works in mysterious ways but at least he works, he's never on welfare in a mysterious way.

- Stephen Colbert99

◆ Once you go on welfare it changes you. Even if you get off welfare, you never escape the stigma that you were a charity case. You're scarred for life.

- Jeannette Walls99

◆ I work hard because millions on welfare depend on me!

- 99

◆ One of the consequences of such notions as entitlements is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.

- Thomas Sowell99

◆ The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

- Helen Keller99

◆ Welfare is hated by those who administer it, mistrusted by those who pay for it and held in contempt by those who receive it.

- Peter C Goldmark Jr99

◆ 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."

- Thomas Sowell99

◆ Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on income distribution, the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.

- Thomas Sowell99

◆ It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

- Thomas Sowell99

◆ The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

- Thomas Sowell99

◆ Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.

- Thomas Sowell99