Dennis Prager Quotes About Welfare

Quotes about: Welfare

• The more the state gives to its citizens, the less they have to earn. That is the basic concept of the welfare state - you receive almost everything you need without having to earn any of it. About half of Americans now pay no federal income tax - but they receive all government benefits just as if they had paid for, i.e., earned them.

  Dennis Prager

  Government, Giving, Income

  "The More Given, the Less Earned" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 21, 2009.

• Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something for nothing. In the liberal welfare state, one develops an entitlement mentality. And the rhetoric of liberalism - labeling each new entitlement a 'right reinforces this sense of entitlement.' -

  Dennis Prager

  Character, Erosion, Guarantees

• Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic. The great preoccupations of vast numbers of Brits, Frenchmen, Germans and other Western Europeans are how much vacation time they will have an how early they can retire and be supported by the state.

  Dennis Prager

  Vacation, Numbers, Citizens

  Dennis Prager (2012). “Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph”, p.41, Harper Collins

• 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

  Selfish, Media, People

• 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

  Country, Men, Parent

• The welfare state is predicate don collecting money from today's workers in order to pay for those who paid in before them. But today's workers don't have enough money to sustain the scheme, and there are too few of them to do so. As a result, virtually every welfare state in Europe, and many American states, like California are going broke.

  Dennis Prager

  Order, Europe, California

• Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic

  Dennis Prager

  Citizens, Narcissistic, Welfare

  Dennis Prager (2012). “Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph”, p.41, Harper Collins

• The bigger the government, the less the citizens do for one another. If the state will take care of me and my neighbors, why should I? This is why Western Europeans, people who have lived in welfare states far longer than Americans have, give less to charity and volunteer less time to others than do Americans of the same socioeconomic status.

  Dennis Prager

  Government, Volunteer, Giving

  Dennis Prager (2012). “Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph”, p.40, Harper Collins

• The welfare state may be well-intentioned, but it is a Ponzi scheme

  Dennis Prager

  May, Welfare, States

• The welfare state corrupts family life. Even Democrats have acknowledged the destructive consequences of the welfare state on the underclass. It has rendered vast numbers of male unnecessary to females, who have looked to the state to support them and their children (and the more children, the more state support) rather than to husbands. In effect, these women took the state as their husband.

  Dennis Prager

  Children, Husband, Numbers

• The welfare state inhibits the maturation of its young citizens into responsible adults

  Dennis Prager

  Adults, Citizens, Welfare

  Dennis Prager (2012). “Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph”, p.42, Harper Collins

• As a result of the Left's sympathetic views of pacifism and because almost no welfare state can afford a strong military, European countries rely on America to fight the world's evil, and even to defend them

  Dennis Prager

  Country, Strong, Military

  Dennis Prager (2012). “Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph”, p.43, Harper Collins

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