Welfare – Foreign & Domestic – Is it such a bad thing to provide welfare to waves of illegal immigrants, or the exploding domestic homeless population?  Isn’t that the right thing to do?  What could be wrong with that? 

Our nation’s founders had a very practical point of view on this question…

“I am for doing good to the poor, but…I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed…that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
~ Ben Franklin
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/23892-i-am-for-doing-good-to-the-poor-but-i-think

And from the Christian perspective…

“ 7)…  We were not idle when we were with you, 8)  nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. On the contrary, we worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you. 9) We did this, not because we do not have the right to such help, but in order to make ourselves a model for you to follow. 10)  For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “If a man will not work, he shall not eat.” 11)  We hear that some among you are idle. They are not busy; they are busybodies. 12) Such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and earn the bread they eat.”
~ The Apostle Paul, 2 Thessalonians 3:7-12
https://web.mit.edu/jywang/www/cef/Bible/NIV/NIV_Bible/2THES+3.html#footnote_270790527_1

Individual Americans have traditionally chosen to give generously to those in need.  But the government has taken that choice away and made our charitable giving mandatory. Our life blood, the money and property by which we would sustain and improve our lives, is taken as taxes and given away to sustain others. It is greed, legalized theft, and false charity.  

“… life cannot maintain itself alone… By the application of our faculties to natural resources we convert them into products, and use them… in order that life may run its appointed course… individuality, liberty, property—this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.”

“But there is another tendency that is common among people. When they can, they wish to live and prosper at the expense of others… This fact, combined with the fatal tendency that exists in the heart of man to satisfy his wants with the least possible effort, explains the almost universal perversion of the law… The law perverted by… stupid greed and false philanthropy.”

~ Frederic Bastiat
https://fee.org/ebooks/the-law/

False philanthropy and socialism explained…

In the 1971 book “Rules for Radicals” the activist Saul Alinsky listed eight steps for turning the U.S. into a socialist state.  Ever-expanding programs to house the domestic homeless population and support for illegal immigrants are all a part of this deliberate and well-described scheme to create a huge dependent class of people to impoverish our country and collapse it from within.  https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/opinion/2014/02/09/letter-to-the-editor-eight-rules-for-creating-a-socialist-state/5350129

  1. Control health care and you control the people.  (free health care for all from the taxpayer)
  2. Increase poverty as high as possible.  Poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if they rely on you for all the necessities.  (total support courtesy of your taxes)
  3. Increase debt to an unsustainable level and offset with increased taxes to produce more poverty.  (higher taxes impoverish hard-working Americans)
  4. Deprive the people of the ability to defend themselves to create a police state.  (It’s happening)
  5. Welfare: Take control of every aspect of their lives. (food, housing, income).
  6. Take control of what people read and listen to — take control of what children learn in school.
  7. Remove the belief in God (and his moral code) from the government schools.
  8. Divide the people into tribes of wealthy and poor. This will make it easier to dehumanize and demonize the wealthy (working-class Americans) and tax them to support the poor.

Alinsky’s idea is almost identical to a plan conceived by professors Cloward & Piven:

https://amac.us/newsline/society/cloward-piven-the-strategy-being-used-against-america

  • A plan to implement huge changes in America by abusing the nation to the point of destruction
  • Creating chaos to destroy America’s capitalist economy and replace it with a socialist system
  • A massive drive to recruit the poor onto the welfare rolls, as many as it takes to send the United States into an economic crisis
  • Impel action on a new federal program to distribute income
  • Make work requirements for welfare eligibility a violation of civil liberties
  • Millions of dollars in benefits for desperately dependent masses will make them loyal to their political benefactors

Domestic Welfare Recipients:

The Alinskey – Cloward & Piven plan (ACP) is being executed, expanded, and perfected right now.  Large-scale programs for the domestic homeless population do not address the root causes of chronic homelessness and have become a big business nicknamed “The Homeless Industrial Complex”. 

Recent experience has shown a continuous cycle of homelessness despite placement in government housing. The state of California spent $24 Billion on homeless programs over 5 years and 87% either became homeless again or never left government housing. Clearly, state government assistance is not a cure for homelessness.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/audit-finds-california-has-spent-24-billion-homeless/

The federal government spent $1.3 trillion on welfare programs in 2023 but the homeless population in California grew 40% in the last 5 years. That’s further confirmation that paying able bodied citizens to be idle is not a cure for homelessness. If social benefits were NOT so plentiful, more citizens would be incentivized to work, they would remain in the workforce, and better themselves. Artificially high minimum wage rates have led to a tsunami of layoffs and price inflation. American citizens burdened by minimum wage laws are disadvantaged by illegal aliens who are effectively exempt from the same wage standards. Removing the illegals and canceling the benefits programs will bring about an equilibrium between wages and labor force participation. Taxes could be cut, and the minimum wage for unskilled work could go back to a reasonable market rate. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/illegals-do-jobs-americans-collecting-benefits-wont-do/

And yes, they WANT you to be dependent on THEM.

A study by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) found that parents receiving welfare significantly increases the likelihood of welfare participation among their children. This intergenerational correlation suggests that welfare use is at least partly a learned behavior, perpetuating the cycle of dependency. Findings indicate that if parents become welfare dependents, the likelihood of their children eventually becoming welfare recipients also increases. Findings also suggest that a more stringent screening policy for government benefits would not only reduce payouts to current applicants, but would also produce a long-term reduction in participation rates and program costs.  https://www.nber.org/digest/nov13/intergenerational-transmission-welfare-dependency

“Handouts Don’t Help” – A Colorado county has gotten almost every homeless person off of the streets while nearby Denver’s struggles with an all-out homeless and drug crisis. https://www.breitbart.com/local/2024/09/23/colorado-county-effectively-ended-homelessness-with-handouts-dont-help-program/

Foreign Welfare Recipients:

The majority of newly arrived illegal immigrants are NOT persecuted political refugees eligible for legal asylum. As demonstrated below, the vast majority are “economic migrants” seeking a higher standard of living than they can attain in their home countries.

But the American dream is attainable by third-world economies if they were to demand their countries follow the American model:


– African Entrepreneur, Magatte Wade, SLAMS ‘Do-Good’ Snobs Making Poverty Worse – “Foreign aid, welfare, that stuff is not working because it’s robbing us of our self-agency,” she says. “There is only one way to lift people out of poverty, and it’s not handouts; it’s capitalism.”  https://www.glennbeck.com/glenn-beck-podcast/african-entrepreneur-slams-snobs-poverty Magatte Wade also wrote that anti-capitalism is a very serious problem for the 90% of black people who live in Africa and that, “Africa needs far more free enterprise, not less.” https://profectusmag.com/capitalism-is-key-to-fulfilling-the-promise-of-black-lives-matter/

– Peruvian economist Dr. Hernando de Soto had devoted his career to teaching how poor societies can rise out of poverty through property rights, free enterprise, and enforceable contracts. https://fee.org/articles/hernando-de-soto-how-to-make-the-third-world-richer-than-the-first/

The Fastest Growing Dependent Class:

Depleting our economy:

A socialist “universal basic income” is being proposed to sustain a permanently dependent population in keeping with the ACP strategy:

Even illegal immigrants who come to work contribute to the ACP objective as they send a large part of their U.S. wages to relatives back home (called “remittances”), draining the vitality of our economy and hurting the future vitality of immigrants’ country of origin.:

Non-government organizations (NGOs) facilitate illegal immigration with U.S. taxpayer dollars as well as sponsoring terrorist activities around the world (Gaza, Corruption). The time has come to pull U.S. funding from the United Nations and others that work against American interests.

A Call to Action

  1. In keeping with the points of view of both Benjamin Franklin and Frederic Bastiat, and in opposition to the Alinskey – Cloward & Piven strategy, we must phase-out the provision of taxpayer-funded government benefits for both the majority of the able bodied U.S. homeless population and illegal immigrants.  Critics will say that this is harsh and uncaring; however:
    – It is tough love aimed at lifting citizens out of the multi-generational dependence on government benefits.
    – It will take away the incentive to enter the country illegally to the detriment of American citizens, and will incentivize the people to demand the God given right to their lives, self-determination, property and a chance at prosperity in their home countries.
    – It frees the hard working American taxpayer from the false philanthropy and legalized theft achieved through misapplication of their tax dollars.
  2. Passionate individuals, churches, charities, and other private entities can stand behind their convictions and lead the return to the traditional American model of voluntary financial and material support for those in need; but, without reliance on tax dollars.
  3. Artificially high minimum wage rates should be phased out to stop the layoffs, make entry level jobs more plentiful, and return us to market driven wage rates.
  4. To stop the growth of what may become the largest dependent class we must de-fund the NGOs and reinstate the Trump-era immigration controls: 
    – Complete the wall, defend our border
    – Bring back the remain-in-Mexico policy
    – End catch-and-release and expatriate all economic migrants

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