Political Quotes

“everyone from President Clinton on down is talking about welfare reform. What some do not yet realize or are unwilling to admit is that our big government liberal establishment policies have largely created the mess we are in. Most of the welfare programs we now have benefit the bureaucrats more than the intended beneficiaries. A welfare supervisor from New Hampshire wrote in last week's U.S. News and World Report these words: Welfare programs start with the best of intentions but never seem to instill a sense of responsibility. Instead of solving the problem, they perpetuate it. Recent federally mandated programs are legitimizing illegitimacy at a tremendous social and economic cost. The Federal welfare state has been a total and complete failure. In fact, it has made the problem worse. The only real way to correct the problem is to do something that I know we will not do, and that is to get the Federal Government totally out of the welfare business. The function should be returned to our local governments without Federal requirements or mandates because it can be handled the most economically and efficiently at the local level. Our benefits are too generous and any society that pays healthy people more to stay at home than to work cannot long survive.”