Failing Quote by Thomas Sowell

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

Government welfare programs contribute to the disintegration of poor families. They make women and children dependent on government; dependent for food, for clothing, for…

— Hans F. Sennholz

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

Welfare now erodes work and family and thus keeps poor people poor. Accompanying welfare is an ideology - sustaining a whole system of federal…

— George Gilder

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

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 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

Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success:…

— Niall Ferguson

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

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 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

The tragedy of government welfare programs is not just wasted taxpayer money but wasted lives. The effects of welfare in encouraging the break-up of…

— Michael Tanner