found online by Raymond
From Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass:
The policy of deliberate impoverishment is not new; it’s been around at least as long as the idea of some people having more than others.
But it’s conservative America in which the policy has reached its highest achievement. Not coincidentally because in America the policy has been from the beginning justified by racism.
One of the two fundamental problems with American welfare policy is that at its core, it assumes that the poor are morally deficient and need to be fixed instead of just poor.