Ronald Reagan Quotes About Welfare
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How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
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Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
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Isn't our choice really not one of left or right, but of up or down? Down through the welfare state to statism, to more and more government largesse accompanied always by more government authority, less individual liberty, and ultimately, totalitarianism, always advanced as for our own good. The alternative is the dream conceived by our Founding Fathers, up to the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with an orderly society.
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The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant demeans and humiliates him.
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Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
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I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.
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Republicans believe the best way to assure prosperity is to generate more jobs. The Democrats believe in more welfare.
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The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous private sector.
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Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
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This is not to say that the government should confiscate from the "haves" and bestow upon the "have-nots", beyond the requirements of a compassionate welfare program to provide for those who cannot provide for themselves. Far from it. But it is to say that our duty is to foster a strong, vibrant wealth-producing economy which operates in such a way that new additions to wealth accrue to those who presently have little or no ownership stake in their country.
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People are tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers, and they are angry about the constant spiral of taxes and government regulations, arrogant bureaucrats, and public officials who think all of mankind's problems can be solved by throwing the taxpayers dollars at them.
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We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
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Meaningful work, not welfare, is every American's hope, and we have a continuing responsibility to make those hopes a lasting reality.
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