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Welfare Dependence and Welfare Reform: A Theory of Welfare Privatization |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / WELFARE REFORM |
| Author: Charles D. Hobbs |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1992 |
| Size: 5,194 Words, 33,214 Characters |
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A century of preoccupation with poverty, the poor, and what to do about them has left us awash in costly and ineffective welfare programs. We have programs designed to meet every conceivable need: for cash, food, housing, health care, education, job training, child care, drug abuse treatment, work-related expenses, foster care, child support enforcement, special facilities and equipment for the disabled. For needs too obscure to warrant their own programs, we have a program to meet "special needs." A $200-billion-a-year federally controlled welfare industry dispenses benefits to one in every five Americans. Each new legislative spasm of Congress expands the welfare system and our national commitment to a compassionate but seemingly unwinnable "war on poverty."
Recognizing our failure...
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...those who, feeling compassion for the poor, are uncomfortable with a form of welfare that frees people to build better lives for themselves, one can only remind them of Lincoln's admonition: "This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it."
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