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Like many ultraconservatives, Buchanan is unfailingly kind and generous to people regardless of their background. But he can be just as cruel to the groups to which they belong. To him, gays are "sodomites," the poor are "freeloaders," and immigrants from anywhere but Western Europe are a threat to the American way of life. Buchanan's remarks about Jews in particular are so provocative that his fellow panelists on TV political talk shows -- including Al Hunt of the Wall Street Journal, Morton Kondracke of the New Republic and Washington Post columnist Mark Shields -- have felt the need to say publicly...
...they claim people are migrating to California to take advantage of the state's higher welfare payments. In an interview with TIME last month, Wilson talked about the tough choices ahead: "What we are going to have to do, I think, is make an internal decision to be less generous . . . There is a limit to what we can absorb." Despite Wilson's fears, statistics indicate that only 6% of California AFDC families have lived in the state less than 12 months...
...problem is not that welfare is too generous to blacks but that social welfare in general is too stingy to all concerned. Naturally, whites in the swelling "near poor" category resent the notion of whole races supposedly frolicking at their expense. Whites, near poor and middle class, need help too -- as do the many African Americans, Hispanics and "others" who do not qualify for aid but need it nonetheless...
...Smith is no Donald Trump. He is widely described as a generous philanthropist who shies away from public attention...
...addition, they say that although there are some professors who are bad citizens, many of their colleagues do fulfill their citizenship duties. "[Citizenship] is a matter of give and take in any department," says Vendler. "It all depends on good will. For the most part, people have been generous [with their time...