The Cablenator left a comment on my post from Friday about
a recent WSJ article on the use of food stamps in the United States. His comment, in part, reads:
Food stamps offer little in the way of incentive to break free from the welfare system if they facilitate other areas of spending that are clearly non-necessities. Plain nutrition-cakes are entirely humane and discourage dependency.
I agree. This brought to mind something that
Benjamin Franklin![](http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=paulezimmcom-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1936594374)
once said, one of my favorite quotes of his:
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. 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.
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