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Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.

I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention.

Before they got vengeful, conservatives had some useful points to make about welfare. Government 'help' is too often guilt-assuaging gesture. It creates layers of wasteful bureaucracy. Too much help of the wrong sort creates a culture of dependency that swamps our ability to provide.

It's true that redistributing income to the needy is politically easier in a growing economy than in a stagnant one.

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

Too often, I believe, liberals deny that poverty is linked to bad choices.

There has long been a debate in the aid community and in Africa about how to most effectively help situations of poverty in developing nations and underprivileged communities.

Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.