“Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.” – Henry W. Beecher

As you consider the above quote think, if you will, of “Welfare” and “foodstamps” as “Inherited riches” because that is monies for which they have personally not labored for which is the sentiment Mr. Beecher was conveying in his statement: a problem we have today in American society.