Show Does government welfare help the poor The liberal Senators and Congressmen Congress Congress- m men n in Washington who always vote for new expanded increased and more expensive government welfare welfare welfare wel fare programs constantly seek to justify their generosity on the grounds that the programs help the poor and needy But this maintains Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina is not necessarily necessarily necessarily so When these programs are examined closely he says it often appears that it is mostly the administrators administrators administrators admin admin- of the programs the Federal Federal Fed Fed- Federal eral bureaucrats if you please who benefit most Senator Helms states that he ran across a Federally financed program recently that surely sets some some sort of record for waste and inefficiency It was as supposed to be a program to provide emergency supplies of coal and fuel oil to needy families Upon examination however it turned turned turn turn- ed out that out of allocated to toa toa toa a particular county less than three percent of the money actually went for coal and fuel oil for the needy The balance of the money more than 97 percent went for the salaries of the people running the program I INot INot Not all Federal welfare programs of course are as bad as the one cited by Senator Helms However it is a fact that a huge proportion of welfare welfare welfare wel fare money goes for the overhead of the government bureaus not only the salaries wages fringe benefits vacation pay and the like but also for the enormous expense of the rent and I or purchase heat light and maintenance of the government buildings buildings buildings build build- ings required to house the tens of thousands of government workers The best way to help the poor in America is to strengthen our free enterprise system so that people can have jobs Simply paying government bureaucrats to take money out of the pockets of one group of Americans to hand out to another group of Americans Americans Americans Amer Amer- is an exercise in futility that produces nothing of value and simply tends to everyone |