Census Bureau: Means-Tested Gov't Benefit Recipients Outnumber Full-Time Year-Round Workers - See more at: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/census-bureau-means-tested-govt-benefit-recipients-outnumber-full#sthash.TLT6Pkt3.dpuf
I grew up poor, Black, inner-city dwelling, and was raised
by a single parent, in my case, my great grandmother. I’ve been on welfare and
actually used food stamps. In short, I’m the picture that many liberals hold up
when they stridently declare, “We have to do something to help these poor
people!”
Here’s what I know from first-hand experience. Food Stamps,
while helpful in the short term, will not lift you out of poverty, only your
hard work and individual choices can do that. There is not a single government
program that has ever made one person financially independent. Only you can do
that for you.
The major flaw in the well-meaning government largess
aimed at helping people that look like me and others who don’t, and winning the
“war on poverty” is that it is killing our work ethic and sense of individual
responsibility.
This nation cannot survive if the majority of the population is depending on others or the father figure government to do the achieving for them. We must dial back the entitlement mentality or our Republic will indeed be lost.
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