One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who compla… - Thomas Sowell

Walter Williams figured out some years ago that the amount of money needed to move the poor out of poverty would be trivial compared to the amount of money that's spent on these damn programs that are supposed to help the poor but usually don't. But the poor are being used as human shields in the political battle. You put the poor up in front of you as you march across the battlefield and enemy troops won't fire, so you can expand your power, and raise taxes, and so forth.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.