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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

FOOD STAMP NATION: CHILD HOMELESSNESS SPIKES IN NYC

Andrea Elliott, in her NY Times article "Invisible Child,"articulates the disheartening existence of a family living on the meager support of government welfare. She invites her readers to look through the eyes of Dasani, the family's 11-year-old girl.

The family has a complex relationship with the welfare programs that both keep them afloat and keep their situation hopeless.

Liberals advocate that welfare programs are designed to help the least fortunate and that they demonstrate a society’s compassion. However, sometimes too much compassion by the state can devolve into what recovering drug addicts would call "enabling." Moreover, the "compassionate environment" provided by government often turns out to be wretched.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The abysmal failure of the socialist model applied to any us city..becomes more evident everyday..nanny states / politics...DONT WORK....capitalism and Jobs DO

Mr. Mcgranor said...

I would rather see them homeless then rounded-up by the Government.

Anonymous said...

Liberals think a lot of things ... mostly crap. "Lets help the poor with "YOUR" money. Get off your dead butts you leaches and get a job.