Government Programs Quotes

“Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.”

“One of the problems with trying to help underdogs, especially with government programs, is that they and everyone else start to think of them as underdogs, focusing on their problems rather than their opportunities. Thinking of themselves as underdogs can also dissipate their energies in resentments of others, rather than spending that energy making the most of their own possibilities.”

“Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and trucks. Most people living below the official poverty line also have air conditioning, color television, and a microwave oven - and these too are not usually handed out by government entitlement programs.Cell phones and other electronic devices are by no means unheard of in low-income neighborhoods, where children would supposedly go hungry if there were no school-lunch programs. In reality, low-income people are overweight more often than other Americans.”

“The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their families, such as not earning above a certain level of income.”

“The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges, and other projects... It gave men and women a chance to make some money along with the satisfaction of knowing they earned it.”

“The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a Government Program”

“The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous private sector.”

“Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people”

“We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won”

“Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.”

“Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.”

“Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.”

“Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.”