Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.
The welfare state creates its own victim/client constituency. By making individuals free and independent, we reduce the need for 'charity' to those truly needy citizens what we can certainly afford to help through real charity.
The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.
The welfare system was designed to do something different when it was started than what it does now. It was a safety net to help people get back to work: if they were sick, it would help them get back.
We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.
Success in war and preservation of a country's social framework as a purpose at least equal in importance to welfare of individuals.
The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.
What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest.
A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
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