EBT Outage Provides Opportunity for Real Compassion
There was panic at supermarkets over the weekend. Low-income Americans in 17 states were turned away from cash registers due to a computer outage affecting their electronic…
Food Stamps Tragedy: Government Cannot Know the Needs and Dreams of 48 Million Americans
Personal Freedom and Prosperity 109: SubsidiarityThis tenet holds that nothing should be done by a larger and more complex organization, which can be done as well by…
The Failure Of The War On Poverty
In 1930, the unemployment rate among African Americans was lower than it was for whites. That's right, at the height of the Great Depression, blacks were more likely to be…
SNAP Challenge is Not So Challenging – Unless You’re an Out of Touch Congressman
This past week more than two dozen Democratic members of congress decided to compete in the SNAP Challenge and in their words "call attention to the necessity…
Biting the Hand that Feeds
Every few hours, new facts emerge about the Boston Marathon bombers. While much has been made of their family, studies and religion, on Tuesday night we learned that…
The Fallacy of Government Assistance
Throughout American history, there have always been those that have fallen on hard times. From British poor laws, brought over by the colonists, to today’s myriad of welfare programs, America…
Big Government Is Mean
Whenever conservatives talk about lowering taxes, reducing entitlements, or rolling back our titanic government, the intellectual giants of the left deploy an incisive counter-argument: you're mean!But of course. Why, just…
The Message of Welfare: ‘No, You Can’t’
So, you didn't win last week's Powerball? I didn't either, which is why I'm writing blog posts instead of designing a helipad for my new private island. I was surprised to…
We Spend HOW MUCH On Welfare?
While researching another blog post, I came across an article that truly shocked me - which is really hard to do, given my familiarity with the Obama administration's free-spending ways.
United Welfare State of America: US Now Spends Over $1 Trillion on Welfare
By Rachel Pulaski and Jim Hoft…