Ryder Spearmann
Aug 28, 2017 · 1 min read

The only way to become dependent on government, is to have government provide in the first place. You can’t become dependent on a drug without first taking it.

I would take issue with “neglect” on that basis.

JFK would have been a perfect Republican except for one thing… he believed in “the cycle of poverty”, and felt that payments to the poor would break this “cycle”, and poverty (which had been decreasing rapidly on its own) would end entirely.

As we now know, this did not happen, and even the previous declines in poverty suddenly held stable… and became entrenched and multi generational… with a price tag in he Trillions.

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