welfare programs

Link Here's the text. Good idea, bad idea, or just pointless and stupid?

Amish first... ...and the Latinos: People want to work hard and be self-sufficient, and the government and social agencies want to turn them into wards of the state.

It strikes me that the dismantling of some welfare, social safety net programs like Social Security and some that Europeans are dismantling, are happening at the same time that free trade is increasing and workers are moving around at an incredible pace. It seems that to have a welfare system...

The poor and fat, food stamps, and how wealthy the American "poor" really are Here's a good pair of articles—one a commentary, the other a research paper—by economist Robert E. Rector of the Heritage Foundation. They both cover aspects of the poor in America and the benefits they derive from a...

Imagine if this was a bill to pay out money to welfare recipients: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/06/10/politics/main557969.shtml Most likely, the "next-generator nuclear power reactor" will be the pebble-bed reactor: http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/talbot0102.asp...

I can see them. They are out there begging, and I cannot imagine a more degrading existence. Even if we forced them into a job, they would be incapable of actually doing anything useful. In certain countries, begging is more of a profession for some. But I am not talking about those people...