Bankers Quote by Ron Paul

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

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

Most poor people are not on welfare. . . I know they work. I'm a witness. They catch the early bus. They work every…

— Jesse Jackson

The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their…

— Thomas Sowell

What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they…

— Thomas Sowell

Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice…

— Irving Kristol

The welfare system in this country has literally crippled millions. It has gotten people bound and gagged so that they cannot get off it.…

— Shelton Smith

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

— Thomas Sowell

To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by…

— Norman Mailer

“This was never about welfare. You can have almost any opinion about welfare, you can be bitterly opposed to its very existence, and you…

— Matt Taibbi

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

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