The Patriot Post® · Welfare Aggravates Inequality

George Will: “Nearly 48 million people – almost as many live on the West Coast (in California, Oregon and Washington) – receive food stamps. This dependency, inimical to upward mobility, is assiduously cultivated by government through ‘outreach initiatives’ to ‘increase awareness’ and ‘streamline the application process.’ … We spend $1 trillion annually on federal welfare programs decades after Daniel Patrick Moynihan said that if one-third of the money for poverty programs were given directly to the poor, there would be no poor. But there also would be no unionized poverty bureaucrats prospering and paying dues that fund the campaigns of Democratic politicians theatrically heartsick about inequality. The welfare state, primarily devoted to pensions and medical care for the elderly, aggravates inequality.”