WELFARE POISONS EVERYTHING. “Corruption, like cancer … eats faster and faster every hour. Welfare creates entitlements and the entitled urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the entitled more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, morality, simplicity, and frugality become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, floppery, mobs, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole of society.”
