William Simon, in his book A Time For Truth, noted that the typical liberal wants more to feel good and look good than to really do good. He painted social-welfare liberalism as a form of auto-therapy, a mechanism for personal expiation of guilt, or for elevating oneself morally over others. Thomas Sowell continued this line of reasoning in The Vision Of The Anointed.
It's sad, really. An awful lot of children of welfare mothers have had it tough because a coterie of Manhattan and Hollywood leftists needed to salve their consciences about being prosperous. The least we can do is to keep it from happening again.
Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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