The Degrading Paradox of Welfare

When someone speaks out against Welfare, some listeners become indignant and suspect an appalling lack of caring, a lack of charity and humanity. But shallow sentimentality is no substitute for intelligent policies and genuine compassion, and the fact is that our current welfare system treats its recipients - who are mostly black -- as if they were children, as if they were unable to understand the basic facts of a market economy, and as if they were unable to rise above a system of

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