“The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.”
– Thomas Sowell
Related posts:
The Welfare State is Not Really About the Welfare of the Masses 
Ode To The Welfare State 
How the Welfare State Begins… and Ends 
Money Saving Tip: If You Are On Welfare and Can’t Support Yourself, Don’t Have Any More Children. 
Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. 
I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money. 
Socialism in General has a Record of Failure 
I went to sign my dog up for welfare. He gets his check next week.
And @barackobama & @SenateDems are the biggest cons running the game!
And it’s hard to get Dems. to see it.
http://t.co/ZL4moNBDIu
dems need their votes
KINDA LIKE THE OLD PROTECTION RACKET. ONLY IN REVERSE.
Upton Sinclair, Socialist candidate for Congress wrote, “The American people will take Socialism, but won’t take the label.
And I am sick of getting conned! I am going to start fighting these Asses who are stealing the tax money of good people !
I think congressional immorality predates the Welfare State – huge con.
http://t.co/w1XJzIvCfx
I thought that would be marriage.
amazing how many people fail 4 this & continue 2 do so
followed closely by “climate (warming) change
they called it bread & circuses in old days