Government aid can actually make things worse. By handing out welfare checks impersonally to all who qualify, without addressing the underlying behavioral problems, the government in essence “rewards” antisocial and dysfunctional patterns. And any behavior the government rewards will generally tend to increase. As one perceptive nineteenth-century critic noted, government assistance is a “mighty solvent to sunder the ties of kinship, to quench the affections of family, to suppress in the poor themselves the instinct of self-reliance and self-respect—to convert them into paupers.”
Nancy Pearcey, “Total Truth: Liberating Christianity From Its Cultural Captivity,” pg.61
4 comments:
I don't have these programs win my country. How does one even get off Housing programs anyway? You guys in America seem to me to have a system that makes it nearly impossible to even get off it without some outside source of help or face homelessness.
The government wants to KEEP people dependent on it, which is why it's so difficult to get off.
Gee, I have no idea how your system works. What would be your advice to someone who wants to get off such programs and on their own??
I have no idea how to get off. We can't get off Social Security once on it, or you can't deny it if you're eligible. It's a scam.
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