[rfreedom4u]

If we got rid of welfare the taxpayers would have more money to give to private charities. Then the people who “need” welfare can go to these private charities and get assistance.

We didn’t have food stamps prior to 1939 and I don’t recall hearing about people dying in the streets.

[smartyaz]

[caveat emptor]

We didn’t have food stamps prior to 1939 and I don’t recall hearing about people dying in the streets.

There were hard times during the Great Depression of the 30s.



1) 12 million people out of work
2) 12,000 people being made unemployed every day
3) 20,000 companies had gone bankrupt
4) 1616 banks had gone bankrupt
5) 1 farmer in 20 evicted
6) 23,000 people committed suicide in one year – the highest ever
There was no system of benefit for the unemployed. Charities such as the Salvation Army gave out free food and shelter. It is known that some people actually starved to death. In some states men deliberately set fire to forests to get temporary employment as fire fighters while farmers killed their animals as no-one could afford to buy them in the cities despite there being great hunger there.