Cradle to Grave Agenda

I've come across this quote many times and it is so true. Take the emotion out of the issue and look at the wasted money pouring into programs ill utilized on those who have become dependent on the government with no motivation to support themselves and improve their life style. Stop the government's cradle to grave agenda already!!

"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. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, 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." Benjamin Franklin, On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor, November 1766