#welfare

Any do-gooder can save one life or a dozen by spending x dollars, but that doesn't demonstrate anything unless you've got x dollars multiplied by the total number of lives that need saving. Stopping poverty one victim at a time is like mowing a lawn one blade at a time. The problem grows faster than the cure can be applied, the only people who profit are the agencies who claim to be cutting grass while they're actually applying fertilizer. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#life

I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#government #observation

What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#beyond #congress #devotion #members #national

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#error #general #loudest #most #popular

Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#bush tax cuts #cuts #democratic #democrats #half

We believe that only government has the capacity--not to mention the political and moral responsibility--to promote the general welfare. Father Kramer as quoted in Sweet Charity? ↗

— Janet Poppendieck

#general-welfare #government-programs #moral-responsibility #public-service #food

One's interest or need does not annul other's right. ↗

— Al-Hafiz B.A. Masri

#animal-rights #animal-welfare #animals #ethics #islam

The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs. ↗

— Jerry Brown

#cut #fewer #jobs #just #more

The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future. ↗

— Jim Talent

#discouraging #families #foundation #future #hurting

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#highlight #i #issue #reform #welfare