There is no substitute for helping the unfortunate than government-provided welfare on demand;

The monetary stimulus from welfare spending adds to aggregate demand and helps to stimulate the economy

Erosion of the Family as Welfare Provider

The primary form of welfare for the unfortunate is the family. Yet many welfare programs actually encourage the destruction of the family. The rise of the so-called "single-parent family" is aided in part by the requirement that the child has been abandoned by one of the parents, almost always the father, and that the remaining parent with child is engaged in a noble endeavor. The reality is that, prior to welfare on demand—what in America is termed an "entitlement"—becoming pregnant out of wedlock was a disaster for the mother and her extended family. If the biological father shirked his duties, the financial and social burden of raising the child fell to the grandparents at a time of life when their physical vigor and income are declining.

There is a further lie: that a single parent (again, usually the mother) can raise a child for a life of achievement. This flies in the face of all research. In all surveys, the single most important trait that will predict a child's future financial success (having a real profession and landing a good job) and social success (staying out of prison, for example) is whether or not the child was raised by a mother and a father. Here are forty-five single parent statistics you can't ignore. Here are charts of single parent families.

Marxist Ideology Attacks Work and Enterprise

The stigma of being on welfare has been ameliorated by Keynesian economics and Marxist ideology. Marxist ideology casts capitalists as a parasitic class, stealing what should belong to the workers. Therefore, the parasitic class deserves to be wiped out financially and, in some Marxist countries, literally. In his latest book Economic Perspectives, in which he compiled his periodic essays from over a decade, Emile Woolf reported on page 11 that, "A friend in the Languedoc (a province in the south of France) has four daughters in local schools. The children relate how their teachers keep telling them that enterprise is bad because it engenders exploitation."