Source; Sent from an Internet friend..... I totally agree. We need to get back to being a democratic republic instead of a supposed 'democracy' where the non-producers elect representatives to cater to their every want and need.
Government welfare programs create resentful givers and ungrateful recipients.
The resentful givers are those who are taxed to pay for welfare. They include those who struggle to provide for their families, to raise them according to moral and civic values. They do so while watching too many of those on welfare spend the taxpayer’s money on tobacco, illegal drugs, and alcohol. They watch as welfare parents neglect the moral and civic upbringing of their own children. They watch ingratitude on display. Those children, many of whose mothers are not sure of who is the father, often receive little or no discipline at home and run wild through school hallways, shopping malls, and city streets. They reject the values of those whose tax money feeds them and houses them. Worse yet, they are the disproportionately large portion of violent criminals who victimize those taxpayers, while also ravaging their own kindred by means of black-on-black violence. While leftists blame police for posing a danger to black people, the truth is that the deadliest threat to young American black men is young American black men.
These points increasingly are being made openly, online, by black Americans who are endangered by black Americans in their own neighborhoods, and who express embarrassment every time they see, in person or on media, the outrageous public behavior of so many black Americans. Blaming such behavior on skin color is reprehensible; so is making excuses for it. Oh, the poor dears, slavery (and, of course, Trump) did this to them. The looters are just trying to feed their children, while wearing gold jewelry and designer clothing that many of their supposed oppressors (working taxpayers) cannot afford. The children, fed only by the taxpayer, languish in neglect. Or, on the other extreme, oh, those rotten blacks, they can’t help their genes, that is what makes them so violent. Either way, it gets worse all the time.
Charity is a virtue. The Good Samaritan demonstrated that. welfare, on the other hand, is involuntary servitude. It is theft. It inflicts immeasurable harm on those to whom are given wealth that they never earned, and with little or no expectation of them giving anything in return, not even gratitude. It is confiscated from those who produce that wealth and doled out to the indolent, to the drug user, to the habitual drunkard, and to the parents of truants and miscreants, without demanding that they reform. But wait — what about all the good people on welfare who are honest, trustworthy citizens who would otherwise live in undeserved squalor without it? They are outnumbered by the legions of murdered, maimed victims, and by those grieving for lost loved ones.
It has been said that when truly private givers who get no subsidy from taxpayers practice charity, they do the opposite of what government does. It is difficult to qualify for government welfare, but once in the system, it is a guaranteed income for life. On the other hand, it is easy to qualify for local small church assistance but impossible to then lie back with mouth open waiting for someone to peel the next grape. The church may give you a meal, or feed your family for a week, but it cares not 1 whit more for them than the parents do. They have a biblical philosophy that says if you will not work, you get no food. The local church says, if we cannot help you, then we will help the next in line; we will use our limited resources where they will do the greatest good. Nor will we subsidize immoral and destructive lifestyles. Oh, those intolerant people of faith — how dare they tell the indolent and hedonistic how to live their lives?
What is wrong those whom the government treats with false compassion? What is wrong is government welfare. It seems designed to achieve the sinister outcomes that plague the black population in inner cities and elsewhere. It rewards single motherhood and absent fatherhood. It tolerates self-destructive lifestyles. It abandons helpless children to street gangs. It abandons those children to violent criminals and hellhole schools that teach them to embrace victimhood instead of personal responsibility.
“The fruits of ill-conceived compassion are manifold: the inculcation of stubborn pride and sloth, the folly of short term benefit over long term self-worth, the destruction of the natural family, learned helplessness, generational indolence, cultural infantilization, and the eclipse of the classical virtues. Perhaps the most devastating argument against the government assuming the communitarian burden of indigent aid is the moral one. A judgment-free redistribution of money ensures that dependency will continue and perpetuate. Going further, the individual virtue one acquires from giving aid up-close and personal effectively dissolves, helping to sever the reciprocal bonds of duty and obligation that comprise the healthy fabric of civil society.”--- Glenn Fairman
Nevertheless, collectivism typically opposes face-to-face personalized private charity. In socialist ideology, wide-spread government redistribution policies replace private charity by ensuring that the working classes and the poor do not have to depend on the benevolence. Paying taxes replaces individual effort and involvement. The state(1), usually by co-opting private charities so as to render them merely instruments of the state, becomes the epicenter, crowding out traditional institutions that once cared for the vulnerable. And such institutions also include the family. Such actions reduce the responsibility and value of parents to their own children and vice versa. It discourages fathers’ involvement in the family and creates perverse incentives for single mothers to avoid marriage and live on the back of the taxpayer, never escaping the caste-like system of an underclass that always votes for BIG-government. “Government policies are an active ingredient in the stew of macro-level forces that influence individual family behavior.”---Stewart Tolnay.
Perhaps this helps explain why poor Americans are now less likely than more affluent Americans to marry and form sustained, intact families. America’s success was based on stable marriages and families, Judeo-Christian religiosity, honesty and industriousness. They combined to create a democratic society characterized by civic involvement, neighborliness, social mobility, and a sense of personal responsibility toward others.
“In a socialist state, there is no place for private charity.”---Z. U. Arbatov
“Being generous with someone’s money or livelihood is not charity and it is not mercy. It is an injustice.”---Vernon O’Rouke
https://wolfstreet.com/2025/08/28/us-governments-fiscal-mess-interest-payments-on-the-treasury-debt-interest-rates-tax-receipts-and-debt-to-gdp-ratio-q2-2025/
Mapped: U.S. Households on Welfare by State
With a tip of the hat to Charlie Kirk; Prove Me Wrong.
Tjhe Tradesman
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