wonder if this guy knows he is a conservative?

unseen on December 29, 2012 at 8:58 AM

Thread winner.

Unfortunately it’s too late: the foolish Leftists have done irreversible damage to our country and cultures within. Just look at the damage they’ve done to African-American culture, for example.

My experience with long-term welfare clients has led me to propose a radical solution: that we abolish all cash welfare, as well as food and housing assistance—except for the elderly and the physically and mentally disabled

tom daschle also picked out this quote. It sounds like something the Stupid Party should promote if they weren’t stupid. Here’s another I agree with:

But once we dismantle cash welfare and other forms of aid and offer paying jobs in their place, what about the children of those few people who simply refuse to work? I think that we should seriously contemplate removing these unfortunate children from their irresponsible parents.

But the government’s unprecedented expenditures failed to bring about the decline in poverty that Johnson had promised. Instead, they made things worse.

In my early days, I too was an anti-poverty warrior. It was the realization that the programs I was supporting were actually making things worse that led me to Milton Friedman, Ronaldus Maximus, and later to Hot Air.

…Ronald Reagan.

Neither city hall nor I comprehended that the “community action” organizations on which we lavished taxpayer dollars would entrench dependency by urging people to get on the welfare rolls.

That’s a feature, not a bug.

It’s how drug pushers and Democrats retain power.

They are much more comfortable just taking your money and giving it away.

His one flaw is keeping disability and old age assistance going. The problem here is that these people should be helped by people much closer to them than the government.

Disability is hitting new record numbers every week. Old age is lasting longer and longer and in far superior health than in the past, even in the all but last couple years of life. No reason that the families, friends and communities cannot take care of those that truly are in need.