Williams on Rush...

I wish Walter Williams would fill in for Rush every day.

Anyway, he just said something which triggered another though in my mind.

So often in debate, the socialists counter arguments about cutting welfare and social security by suggesting that fiscal conservatives are seeking a society where the "poor" are forced to be homeless.

However, on the other hand, the socialists reject the notion that everyone who receives welfare is a lazy bum who refuses to work.

Therefore, if both premises are accurate, the American economy is one in which poor people can work hard and try to make good decisions but would still end up living under a bridge if their welfare checks were taken away.

Why is this the case?

The failures of public education, the breakdown of the nuclear family and our collective unwillingness to assert its status as optimal, and the explosion of government services which have ingrained in Americans the notions that personal responsibility is a political slogan instead of a mental approach to the rigors of attendance at the School of Hard Knocks.