Liberals continue to masquerade as exclusive proprietors of compassion, but their policies stubbornly undermine their possessory claim. Indeed, Obama’s “fundamental transformation” of America is nothing less than America’s decline and destruction in the name of compassion and fairness. The Cato study examines the state-by-state value of welfare for a mother of two children. In the state of New York, for example, “a family receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Medicaid, food stamps, WIC, public housing, utility assistance and free commodities (like milk and cheese) would have a package of benefits worth $38,004, the seventh-highest in the nation.” Because welfare benefits aren’t taxable, a New York wage earner would have to earn in excess of $21 per hour to do better than his welfare recipient counterpart, which is more than a beginning teacher makes. How can a society that embraces the work ethic not shudder in horror at this development? Yet a great portion of our society and political class doesn’t.
Posted on: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 21:01:41 +0000
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