May Quote by Dennis Prager Download Open image “The welfare state may be well-intentioned, but it is a Ponzi scheme” — Dennis Prager ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare May Ponzi scheme Schemes States Welfare Welfare state Wells
Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
No Ponzi schemer tells anyone exactly how it works. The purpose of a Ponzi scheme is to trick people, to take the money and… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers, and making… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working. — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
A well-designed welfare state can actually encourage people to take chances with their jobs and be more, not less, open to changes. — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
I believe investing in welfare is an investment in the future and in people. — Park Won-soon Copy Share Image
The welfare state is predicate don collecting money from today's workers in order to pay for those who paid in before them. But today's… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I believe that investing in welfare is crucial - but I also believe that it only works if you're getting help to those who… — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something for nothing. In the liberal welfare state, one develops an entitlement mentality. And the… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The Left will destroy what is good to try to make what is perfect. That is the motto of the Left — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“The poor who commit murder, rape and robbery are not only not starving, they have far more material things than the word ‘poverty’ suggests.” — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you have to run in a district where… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
America, not Keith Ellison, decides what book a congressman takes his oath on, — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
If they [liberals] didn't believe we were mean spirited they couldn't stay liberal. They have to believe they mean better than us, but we… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“From Marx until today, victim groups have played an indispensable role in Leftist success. Without victim groups, the Left cannot succeed.” — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Good and happy people who believe in God are the greatest living arguments for God's existence — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image