[Ouderkirk]

every liberal always couches welfare as a moral choice as well as a necessary government function.

We have got to stop conceding the moral point to the left that welfare transfer payments are a moral imperative. When I refuse to agree that I have a moral obligation to help the poor, I am regularly castigated by such libtards (and even the pastor of my mother-in-law’s church) as uncaring and evil and greedy and such.

That is their method...to get you to concede the point that welfare is the moral thing to do, and then they ramp it up from there.

[gimme1ibertee]

every liberal always couches welfare as a moral choice as well as a necessary government function.

I am about as far away from a liberal as you could ever hope to get. I am not making any moral judgments here,and I am 100000% in favor of smaller,less intrusive government.
We do NOT have an obligation to help the poor,though we do,because as Americans,we are a benevolent people,and we certainly shouldn't be obligated to foot the bill for those who think they're owed something or are too lazy to work.
The contract would be executed not by the feds-they would be completely taken out of the equation-but by the smaller and more manageable state and/or county governments.The ultimate goal is to end welfare,get people to work and ease the burden on us taxpayers.
This crushing weight on our backs needs to go,and should never have gotten to this point. We need to do something about it.