#fare

The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists. ↗

— Jeanne Tripplehorn

#abuse #anymore #arrests #child #child abuse

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#democracy #dullness #failure #general #general welfare

If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#channeled #expect #freedom #increase #invention

A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#childcare #dollars #every #five #get

I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own - nobody. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

#class warfare #country #got #hear #his

I was a camp counselor for kids whose moms were on welfare, unfortunately, and right across the camp was the best, most pristine and preppy camp in the universe. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#best #camp #counselor #i #kids

A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#farewell #four #friend #her #interview

In spiritual warfare, faith is the currency that releases your prayer. It is the instrument (or weapon, if you like) that activates and sets loose the answers to your prayers. ↗

— Pedro Okoro

#faith

Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#benefits #businesses #care #compensation #costs

Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work. ↗

— William Julius Wilson

#crime #disappearance #dissolution #family #fundamentally