#welfare

In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#countries #doing #european #european countries #even

Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#capitalism #free #free market #generations #increasingly

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#eliminate #existence #far #need #own

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#creates #incentives #lead #long #negative

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion. ↗

— John Comenius

#consideration #end #humanity #language #let us

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare. ↗

— Friedrich List

#around #common #everywhere #exertions #individuals

Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized; school and healthcare are free. And we don't differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#better #better off #between #differentiate #electricity

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy. ↗

— Bob McDonnell

#policy #thesis #welfare #wrote

There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets. ↗

— Gerhard Schroder

#conflict #markets #open #open markets #state

Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#conservative #fiscally #giving #i #i believe