When you look at the amount of money governments spends to "help the poor" in this country, it makes you wonder why they don't just cut everyone a check and skip all the administrative costs associated with the handout process. But what about golf courses?
"Among the many rationales used to defend the welfare state, the most powerful is that it is necessary, in order to take care of the poor and the downtrodden. But the amount of money required to bring every poor person in the country above the official poverty line is a fraction of what is spent by government on the welfare state.
Put bluntly, the poor are in effect being used as human shields in the political wars over government spending, which extends far beyond anyone who could even plausibly be called poor.
Politicians will spend money wherever that is likely to increase their chances of getting re-elected. Of all the things that governments spend money on, none is further removed from fighting poverty than municipal golf courses."
Thomas Sowell: Priceless Politics
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we've spent more than 6 trillion in federal dollars on the "war on poverty" not to mention the trillions spent at a state and local level.
when do we get french like and surrender like the dems do in iraq?
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