Sukarno Quotes

What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs.

Why is it is claimed that if people won't or can't take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them?

The War on Poverty did not work because it was a war on shame … a war on the family and a war on God.

In the old days the problems of government were few and political, now they are many and are economic and sociological ...

For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.

Big government doesn't help the middle class, it buries it.

When government grows, it breaks the family.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Today we are ending welfare as we know it.

Any government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.

The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich

A New Dealer regrets poverty and deplores the fact that it is necessary for society to slough off its misfits as an individual sheds his impurities and his diseases. But New Dealers believe that human want and human distress should be prevented or at least ameliorated.

The free market is the most efficient for utilizing resources and responding to needs, but there are many human needs which find no place on the market.

Too often in Washington, we only look at the recipient side: How does the budget affect either those who receive or don't receive benefits.

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.

The degree of political pressure to make MGNREGA jobs available varies massively from state to state - which is why access to MGNREGA jobs is worse in a very poor state like Bihar than in a richer state like Andhra Pradesh.

Chronic insecurity will not be overcome by minimum wage laws, tax credits, means-tested benefits, or workfare.

Only a state with resources can deplete poverty.

Public social services, infrastructural policies, and so on are vital. But a basic income should be part of a package of reforms.

We must have a welfare system that we can afford, which will mean giving greater attention to directing the welfare program toward its primary purposes and its intended beneficiaries.

I believe that investing in welfare is crucial - but I also believe that it only works if you're getting help to those who need it. If you're doing it with no results, it's disastrous.

We do know the welfare system, starting in the '60s, basically encouraged the dissolution of marriage, encouraged families to separate in order to get the benefits.

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