Right for a Reason Quotes

“Around the same time that index was released, Nicholas Kristof (again, a hero to many liberals), wrote a column that addressed the dependency on government programs.5 He focused on Kentucky’s Appalachian area, where people have yanked their kids out of literacy classes because if those kids learn to read, the parents will be less likely to qualify for a monthly SSI check for having kids with intellectual disabilities. We are not even making this up. Apparently, many of these people receive nearly $700 each month from Supplemental Security Income for those “disabled” children, and they receive those payments until their kids turn eighteen. And when the kids do turn eighteen, they are illiterate and unproductive because of their parents, and they collect SSI income as adults, many of them never holding a job in their entire lives. This is how our entitlement programs “help.” Nice, huh? Kristof wrote, “This is painful for a liberal to admit, but conservatives have a point when they suggest that America’s safety net can sometimes entangle people in a soul-crushing dependency. Our poverty programs do rescue many people, but other times they backfire.”
― Miriam Weaver, Right for a Reason: Life, Liberty, and a Crapload of Common Sense

“The government’s answer to everything is to throw money at it, despite mounds and mounds of evidence that doing so doesn’t work. Unfortunately, the money being poured into entitlements has been successful at one thing—creating a shift in Americans’ attitudes about work and rewards. According to the Legatum Institute’s annual Prosperity Index, even though prosperity increased around the world between 2008 and 2012, it didn’t budge in the United States. In 2012, for the first time ever, the United States ranked outside the top ten out of 142 countries, at number twelve on the Prosperity Index.4”
― Miriam Weaver, Right for a Reason: Life, Liberty, and a Crapload of Common Sense

“Finally, McClintock went on to really tear Calderón—and the moronic Democrats who supported him—a new one: It is an outrage that a foreign head of state would appear in this chamber and actively seek to do so [undermine our immigration laws]. And it is a disgrace that he would be cheered on from the left wing of the White House and by many Democrats in this Congress. And that was the line that really made us want to grab Representative McClintock and plant like twelve zillion kisses on his face. See, that’s the difference between liberals and conservatives. Liberals stand up and applaud a foreign leader who rips on their country on their own soil. Conservatives don’t take that crap lying down.”
― Miriam Weaver, Right for a Reason: Life, Liberty, and a Crapload of Common Sense