Howie Carr Quotes

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

We are tired of a welfare system which dehumanizes us and dispenses payments under procedures that are often ugly and paternalistic.

We have spent trillions of dollars on welfare, where we put people in bondage so they can't be all that they're capable of being.

For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.

Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.

Safety nets for the poor and disadvantaged are a must for any compassionate nation, but encouraging folks to go on the dole when not absolutely necessary is disgraceful.

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thinking of another way to suckle from the government teat.

Welfare is hated by those who administer it, mistrusted by those who pay for it and held in contempt by those who receive it.

A third of all the children born today will be on welfare.

We don’t want to turn this [social] safety net into a hammock that ends up lulling people in their lives into dependency and complacency.

We think there are better solutions to fighting poverty because we see what the War on Poverty has produced. It produced tens of trillions of dollars in spending. It has been a 51-year exercise, and yet the poverty rates in America today are not much better than when we started the War on Poverty.

At its core, government welfare is predicated on a false compassion.

If someone believes that living on benefits is a lifestyle choice, then we need to make them think again.

Contrary to what President Obama said in his inaugural address, going on Medicare and food stamps does not strengthen us. Just ask people who are fourth-generation welfare recipients.

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare.

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

I don't believe in welfare.

After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.