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| Media Link - Washington Times | ||||
| Tuesday, 04 April 1995 00:00 | ||||
Consider the facts of the issue: "Welfare" means forcing some people to pay other people to stay poor. Taxpayers pay for welfare programs under the threat of imprisonment. This is force. Welfare recipients, deprived of jobs that would exist if businesses were allowed to keep all of their earnings, often have no choice but to remain wards of the state. Although the poor can survive on welfare, they rarely, if ever, enter the middle class on government handouts. The idealistic House Republican freshmen are right to argue that welfare is cruel to those it is intended to help. As an experienced social worker, I know firsthand that welfare programs are ineptly run. Those programs also destroy the self-esteem and moral character of their "clients" and serve no real purpose other than to provide middle-class and upper-middle- class bureaucrats with comfortable jobs in the public sector. Most important, even if welfare programs could work -- and they cannot -- no government (state or federal) has a right to force citizens to give their money to others in the name of "charity." Force and charity are a contradiction in terms. The American Red Cross and other private charities do not travel door to door with pistols in their hands, demanding donations. Neither should the government. If House Republicans only had the courage to say aloud what many of them already know is true about welfare, the debate would be over in 20 minutes. Since I hold no public office, allow me to say it for them: Welfare is beyond reform. It should not be sent to the states. It should be phased out altogether and never allowed to return.
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