The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.

There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.

The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to "help."