21st century slavery: Food stamps, ADC, and Section 8 housing
By Frosty Wooldridge.  Food stamps, aid to dependent children,
free medical care and section 8 housing offer over 48.1 million
Americans and non-citizens instant gratification, but in turn
destroys their self-worth, self-respect, personal accountability
and meaning for their lives.  Each year, over 3.5 million people
visit Yellowstone National Park. When you visit the park, you
see signs, “Don’t feed the bears or any wild animals. Feeding
them habituates animals to handouts and can be deadly to them,
to you and your family.”  Yet, countless people feed the
animals. As a result, bears become too lazy to forage for food.
Some of them starve to death in the woods—which offers plenty of
nourishment—when the tourists aren’t there to give them
handouts.  Back in 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson created
the “Great Society” welfare state that began a free feeding-
frenzy for “poor” American citizens. Today millions of people
“feed” off the entitlement