#welfare

What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#failed #federal #federal government #government #his

Most women are one man away from welfare. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#man #most #welfare #women #women are

If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#children #man #welfare #women #young

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the people discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the canidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy--to be followed by a dictatorship. ↗

— Alexander Fraser Tytler

#law #taxes #welfare #freedom

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#called #came #guess #i #i came

We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#bureaucratic #bureaucrats #centralized #crossroads #define

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#essential #human #human nature #knowledge #nature

Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#as far as #case #far #join #lies

All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#civil #consult #god #ministers #nature

You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system. ↗

— George Osborne

#cannot #debts #system #tackle #tackling