There are certainly times when the poor do require help in the form of cash and non cash benefits in the present, in the short run. But a system of “aid” that encourages people to become dependent on the dole, that robs the poor of any incentive to seek ways of helping themselves, that leads the poor into a poverty trap, is hardly a model of genuine compassion or of wise public policy.
Ronald Nash, Poverty and Wealth: The Christian Debate Over Capitalism, pg. 167. Cited by David A. Noebel, Understanding the Times, pg.709
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