Poverty And Welfare

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We're more spread out now, but our travel time
is not any greater.
What I learned leads me to wonder: Why can't we do the same? Were
Americans then a different people than we are today? Have we become so
corrupted that we don't care about others? Have we become so lazy that we are
unwilling to suffer with? I think not. I hope not. But we have become used to
having someone else do it for us - even though we know that a professional
social worker, with a case load of 200 or so, can't do much more than shuffle
paper. Bad charity drives out good.
My conclusion is that when we complain about a spendthrift modern
welfare state, we're right about the costs but we're actually stating the
problem backwards. The major flaw of the modern welfare state is not that it is
extravagant, but that it is too stingy. It gives the needy bread and tells them
to be content with that alone. It gives the rest of us the opportunity to be
stingy also: We can soothe our ...

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