In New York. taxpayers footed the bill for $70anight rooms at the WaldorfAstoria for a welfare mother and her four children. who really preferred a cheaper Brooklyn hotel because the maid service was more responsive to her needs. If only money were needed to cure poverty. there should be very few poor neighborhoods. The American taxpayers have been giving by the tens of billions. But. the record of Government handouts raises the question as to whether we have curbed poverty or are perpetuating the same. Poverty can only )e effected by willing individuals through production and work. And neither of these have ever been shown to be a virtue of government. Our immigrant ancestors had no. guaranteed income. only ambition. No job was too menial to impair their dignity. Italians who could not even speak English
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Immigrant ancestors had no guaranteed income, only ambition. No job was too menial to impair their dignity.