Destructive
And the effects of the shortage of meaningful employment are reinforced by a welfare structure which is frequently destructive both of individuals and of the community in which they live.
More basically, welfare Itself has done much to divide our people, to alienate us one from the other. Partly this separation comes from the understandable resentment of the taxpayer. helplessly watching your welfare rolls and your property taxes rise. But there is greater resentment among the poor, the recipients of our charity. Some of it comes from the brutality of the welfare system itself: from the prying bureaucrat, an all-powerful administrator deciding at his desk who is deserving and who is not, who shall live another month and who may starve next week.
--Robert F. Kennedy, January 21, 1966
More basically, welfare Itself has done much to divide our people, to alienate us one from the other. Partly this separation comes from the understandable resentment of the taxpayer. helplessly watching your welfare rolls and your property taxes rise. But there is greater resentment among the poor, the recipients of our charity. Some of it comes from the brutality of the welfare system itself: from the prying bureaucrat, an all-powerful administrator deciding at his desk who is deserving and who is not, who shall live another month and who may starve next week.
--Robert F. Kennedy, January 21, 1966
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