“Liberal hostility to the traditional family helped to undermine centuries of accumulated wisdom and experience about what was best for children and adults. Far from benefiting only men, marriage confers enormous advantages on women and children as well - a fact that has been thrown into sharp relief by its breakdown over the past forty years.” MenYearsWellsChildrenHas BeensFactsPastCenturyAdultsAdvantageEnormousTraditionalReliefThrownFortyHostilityBreakdownOver The PastWisdom And ExperienceTraditional Family Book:Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us Source: Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us
“Liberals cling to the idea that critics of welfare are motivated by greed or callous disregard for the less fortunate. In fact, during the twenty-five years that followed Lyndon Johnson's declaration of war on poverty, U.S. tax payers spent $3 trillion providing every conceivable support for the poor, the elderly, and the infirm. Private foundations spent scores of billions more, and private and religious charities even more. Nevertheless, as Ronald Raegan later quipped, 'in the war on poverty, poverty won.'” YearsIdeasWarFactsReligiousPoorPovertySupportFiveTaxesTwentiesFoundationCharityCriticsGreedBillionsFortunateWelfareFive YearsScoreMotivatedProvidingNeverthelessDeclarationElderlyJohnsonDisregardTwenty FiveCallousLess FortunateWar On PovertyDeclaration Of War Book:Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us Source: Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us