Word: handouts
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...they feed at the government trough, accepting a massive handout from the federal government at the expense of the needy...
...course not!" you say. "My parents are hardworking, tax-paying citizens. They wouldn't think of taking a government handout...
Lower quality of life for whom? People with second homes on Martha's Vineyard? Do they really deserve a multi-billion dollar government handout...
...talking about a handout. What I'm saying is that if you have a commitment to the young and the poor, then you have an equivalent commitment to identify the sources to fund it. You're not unaware of the fact, certainly, that we have something called a safety net for the truly needy, and as in some work I did on the budget, when I looked at the numbers, I discovered that the means-tested programs that went to the poor were cut three times as much as the non-means tested...
...other side are those who feel just as strongly that one should never help support a beggar. To do so mocks the work ethic, fosters dependence, corrodes individual dignity and compounds the problem: the more handouts, the more hands are out. No less a person than Martin Luther deplored the fact that "there are plenty of people roaming around the country nowadays, ((having)) a good time with other people's possessions." The anti-handout convictions too are often born of careful thought and high ideals. "I have never given a red cent to a panhandler, and I never will," declares...