The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to "help."
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Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.
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Welfare is hated by those who administer it, mistrusted by those who pay for it and held in contempt by those who receive it.
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