Quotes About Welfare

The Welfare ration cards took care of everything, everything that kept you alive and just alive enough to hate it.

Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.

Their behavior indicated that the stigma of being on welfare, which had been powerful throughout American history—even in the Depression—had lost some of its force. So had the tendency of poor people to defer to people in authority. These were among the most profound and lasting developments of the 1960s.90

THESE MANIFESTATIONS OF BACKLASH—against family breakup, illegitimacy, welfare, crime, riots, black activists, anti-war demonstrators, long-haired hippies, government programs that favored minorities, elitists, liberals generally—exposed a major development of the mid-1960s: rapidly rising polarization along class, generational, and racial lines.

Her tears fell abundantly—but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it more respectable in Emma's eyes—and she listened to her and tried to console her with all her heart and understanding—really for the time convinced that Harriet was the superior creature of the two—and that to resemble her would be more for her own welfare and happiness than all that genius or intelligence could do.

So much for the Welfare State. It had contributed so very little to our welfare that one might suppose that its purpose was actually to prevent the disabled from working to their full capacity and, consequently, from contributing as taxpayers to the National Exchequer. A handful of vitamin pills on prescription seemed to be the best it could offer with only minimal physical, practical, moral or financial support.

Barack Obama seems intent on enrolling more people on food stamps. Mitt Romney's focus is going to be on generating more jobs that will make food-stamps unnecessary for them.

A universal basic income would be the best way to give everyone the opportunity to do more unpaid but incredibly important work, such as caring for children and the elderly.

I think that we're so generous in some of our social problems that people are unwilling to get a job outside in the heat. Rather than get 15 dollars to go get roofing, they'd rather get 9 or 10 dollars in benefits.

Hey, hey, the working man, the working man like me. I ain't never been on welfare, that's one place I won't be.

If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.

If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.

If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.

In a society that functions optimally, those who can should naturally want to provide for those who can't. That's how it's designed to work. I truly believe we're here to take care of one another.

These teenagers [that drop out of school to take the higher wage jobs] take jobs that would go to unskilled adults, making it harder for those adults to make the transition from welfare to work.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

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

America needs jobs and opportunity, not make-work and handouts.

How much more of an injustice is it that people who work get more money than people who don't work?

The best social insurance is to make more progress, not to make more work

We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.

New Living Translation And work for the peace and prosperity of the city where I sent you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, for its welfare will determine your welfare.

Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?

Pet stores just sell their animals.