The dependency agenda / Kevin D. Williamson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williamson, Kevin D.

Series:

Encounter broadsides ; no. 28.

Encounter broadside ; no. 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Federal aid to public welfare--United States.

Federal aid to public welfare.

Welfare state--Political aspects--United States.

Welfare state.

Right and left (Political science)--United States.

Right and left (Political science).

Conspiracy theories--United States.

Conspiracy theories.

United States--Social policy.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (49 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Encounter Books, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Each year, the United States spends 65,000 per poor family to ?fight poverty" ? in a country in which the average family income is just under 50,000. Meanwhile, most of that money goes to middle-class and upper-middle-class families, and the current U.S. poverty rate is higher than it was before the government began spending trillions of dollars on anti-poverty programs.In this eye-opening Broadside, Kevin D. Williamson uncovers the hidden politics of the welfare state and documents the historical evidence that proves Lyndon B. Johnson's ?Great Society" was designed to do one th

Contents:

The Dependency Agenda by Kevin D. Williamson; LBJ AND THE GREAT CONUNDRUM; The left valued the toleration of revolutionary socialism abroad and the piecemeal implementation of the welfare state at home over the civil rights of African Americans.; THE NEW DEAL AND THE POLITICS OF CONTROL; The New Deal, for all its failures, was not in the main a project dedicated to the cultivation of economic dependency for the purposes of political gain.; It is clear that much of the New Deal was intended as a set of temporary emergency measures.; The War on Poverty was not designed to help the poor.

A PROGRAM FOR THE POOR IS A POOR PROGRAMAt the apex of the dependency food chain are the highest ranking members of a political machine ultimately dependent upon dependency.; We are all welfare queens now, or at least we soon will be.; 21ST CENTURY LEVIATHAN; No American - left, right, or center - proposes to let elderly people starve in the streets, to let the poor die of easily preventable ailments, to let poor children go uneducated, to let the disabled founder in misery.; We have a great deal of evidence that massive federal entitlement programs do not work.; Copyright

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781594036644

1594036640

OCLC:

794327800