What would America be like with no welfare or social security?

Without social security, the poverty rate for Americans 65 and older ... The assumption in the slash-and-burn approach is that poor Americans have no one to ... maybe we do need government assistance when something like ...

The welfare state was born in Otto von Bismarck's Germany, a ploy of the famed ... the American people got hooked on government benefits, they would never go back. ... Although Social Security has long been viewed as the third rail of American ... Last fall's stock-market collapse demonstrates that private markets offer no ...

As of the end of 2012, some 57 million Americans were receiving retirement, ... After that, Social Security will begin redeeming its hoard of Treasuries for ... I would certainly like to know why social security is always ... .. the program is not a retirement program but in fact an intergenerational welfare program.

The 1920s in America seemed like an age of endless prosperity. ... Suddenly, state and local governments and charities could no longer provide even minimum ... . Did President Franklin D. Roosevelt view the Social Security Act's welfare ...

Social Security Board, Washington, D. C., Publication no. ... Even if American business could at once return to its 1929 status, there would still remain a body of ... It decreases the fear of unemployment which hangs like a cloud over all workers.

As a result, the United States' system of social protection does less to reduce poverty ... Despite what some think, patching the U.S. social safety net need not mean setting ... But these countries, like the United Kingdom, devote a relatively high ...

This is primarily because social welfare is such an all-embracing concept. ... . Basically, it was because the American people did not feel the need for their Federal government ... In 1954, a disability freeze (similar to a waiver of premium) for the ...

Although Social Security did not really arrive in America until 1935, there was one ... Dolge viewed providing for older workers as being a business cost like any other, ... Despite this, state welfare pensions for the elderly were practically ...

The vast majority of people on federal disability do not work. ... what it means for poor people in America nearly 20 years after we ended welfare as we knew it. ... " We talk about the pain and what it's like," he says. ... she told me she would be the woman at the Social Security office who weeds through disability applic...