Georgia Toffolo Quotes

You know, I think that the Republicans have made it really clear that they want to end the so-called social safety net from cradle to grave.

You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.

The matter of social security and these grants is to help to address the levels of poverty in the country.

I am in favor of reducing all budget items. But the item I don't want to reduce is the pension expenditure because it affects the weakest part of society.

While the rest of the country is still talking about welfare reform, Texas is implementing it.

I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thinking of another way to suckle from the government teat.

If you throw a welfare state into the middle of a democracy, it’s very hard to get rid of the beast.

Today we are ending welfare as we know it.

A mature welfare state is always broke.

Our pandering politicians compete to add names to the dependency of entitlement rolls instead of evaluating the success of these programs by how many people leave the dole and are restored to an independence. And these bulging entitlements are saddling our offspring with unsustainable generational debt.

We need a conservative welfare reform initiative that is focused on putting people back to work and ensures taxpayer money is only spent on programs that have been proven to work.

We should be reforming our entitlement programs to empower people.

We need workfare over welfare.

Nobody wants to take a hard look of the entitlement system to see what it is.

We must have a welfare system that we can afford, which will mean giving greater attention to directing the welfare program toward its primary purposes and its intended beneficiaries.

What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs.

You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.

I don't think you expand entitlements when so many people are dependent on government and when the money the federal government is offering is going to be taken away from you after just a couple of years.

Typically, discussions of the safety net boil down to one side wanting to spend more in the name of compassion, and the other side wanting to spend less in the name of fiscal restraint. In both cases, money serves as a proxy for moral responsibility.

Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.

Too many Mainers are dependent on government handouts. Government dependency has not - and never will - create prosperity.

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.

I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.