On Nov 1, 11:46*am, Kurt Ullman wrote:
In article ,

*"HeyBub" wrote:

I further hold that, in the main, it is misguided government programs that
keep the poor in their condition or, in fact, enlarge their numbers.

*"A generous welfare program would put an immediate end to poverty
(defined otherwise than as relative deprivation), but by causing the
break up of many families, by reducing motivation to work and to save
and in general to take some account of the future, and by discouraging
migration from areas of poor opportunity to areas of good opportunity it
might in the long run do more harm than good on the whole."

* *Edward Banfield *The Unheavenly City* 1970

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it out of thin air results in disaster.