Welfare

(248 votes)   Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it.

Italian Proverbs
Sayings of Italian Origin

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(131 votes)   A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(131 votes)   And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.

Edmund Burke
1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman

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(126 votes)   Don't gag people with welfare, they'll never make an effort.

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(125 votes)   Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.

P. J. O'Rourke
1947-, American Journalist

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(111 votes)   Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions.

Elizabeth Hardwick
1916-, American Novelist

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