Welfare cost $746 Billion last year
– more than social security or basic defense
Godfather Politics - Giacomo –
10/20/2012
In
time, the poverty level dropped significantly in the U.S.
When
Obama took office, 12.5%
of the American people lived at or below the poverty line. In
2009, that jumped to 13.2%. In 2010 it jumped up to 14.3% and in 2011 it
reached 15.1%. That equates to over 46 million Americans living at or below the
poverty line and there is no indication that the steady climb will end anytime
soon.
The
vast majority of these people turn to welfare to feed and clothe their
families. What originally started out to be a band-aid to fix a temporary
economic wound has now become a permanent life-support system for millions of
Americans. And like the medical field, life-support costs a great deal more
than band-aids.
It’s
been a long proven fact that just giving money to the poor only creates more
poor people. We need to stop just giving them money without anything in
return. Think how much more productive it would be to pay the poor to work at
various jobs rather than to just give them the money lay around home. They
would learn skills and how to be self-sufficient and become contributing members
of society instead of people who just sit back and feed off the rest of us like
leaches.
Benjamin Franklin
recognized that over 230 years ago and states so
eloquently:
“In
my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries that the more
the public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for
themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the more they
did for themselves, and became richer. There is no country in the world where
so many provision are established for them (as in England); so many hospitals to
receive them when they are sick or lame, founded and maintained by voluntary
charities; so many almshouses for the aged of both sexes, together with a solemn
general law made by the rich to subject their estates to a heavy tax for the
support of the poor. Under all these obligations, are our poor modest, humble,
and thankful? And do they use their best endeavors to maintain themselves, and
lighten our shoulders of this burden? On the contrary, I affirm that there is
no country in the world in which the poor are more idle, dissolute, drunken, and
insolent. The day you passed that, you took away from before their eyes the
greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, but giving
them a dependence on somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and
health, for support in age or sickness.”
“In
short, you offered a premium for the encouragement of idleness, and you should
not now wonder that it has had its effect in the increase in poverty. Repeal
that law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. Saint Monday and
Saint Tuesday will soon cease to be holidays. Six days shalt thou labor,
thought one on the oldest commandments long treated as out of date, will again
be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it
plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be
done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves than could be
done by dividing all your estates among them.” [The Real Benjamin Franklin: Part
II: Timeless Treasures from Benjamin Franklin, Prepared by W. Cleon Skousen and
M. Richard Maxfield. National Center
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