Quotes About Public assistance

People think I'm rich and I'm making all this money off these rocket launches. Hell I'm on Medicaid!

Despite the fact that Uncle Rulon and his followers regard the governments of Arizona, Utah, and the United States as Satanic forces out to destroy the UEP, their polygamous community receives more than $6 million a year in public funds.

Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention.

Raising the minimum wage would be a positive step in reducing poverty, the humiliation of living in poverty, and dependence on public assistance.

Any success I have had is thanks to Labour governments that provided the council house, minimum wage, tax credits and Sure Start children's centre that enabled me to achieve it.

Private charity can apply 'tough love' but government charity can't.

The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

Not federal government's job to do good deeds.

Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.

When a beggar asks us for a quarter, our instinct is to say that the State has already confiscated our quarter for his benefit, and he should go to the State about it.

I think it's time... that we reform Congress to the point where all public assistance comes in one single committee. One area where all public assistance can be located, and it will be easy to see all the duplications, all the waste, so much easier to see areas where fraud is running rampant.

When I first came to the city, a line of people often helped me discover an exciting premiere or a big sale; in 1931, such queues more often ended at soup kitchens or collapsing banks.

governments could subsidize universal basic services rather than income.

We are not for cutting social welfare and are for more health care.

Drug testing for recipients of various welfare programs - I really think that's something that needs to be considered.

Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare.

I think what the Conservatives have done, scaling back welfare payment, is overwhelmingly positive. There's only a certain amount of welfare they can give out.

A thin safety net, an expansive security state: This is the American way. At all levels of government, the country spends roughly double on police, prisons, and courts what it spends on food stamps, welfare, and income supplements.

I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive.

Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority.

I am a Democrat; I want to fund programs that help people. In order to do that, you need to have revenues and you have revenues when you have jobs.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

If we can afford food stamps and housing subsidies, why not gun stamps to help urban citizens survive the next Islamist assault?