"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a moral justification for selfishness."It's fascinating that the increase in transfer payments (e.g., on welfare, food stamps, unemployment compensation as well as student grants, farm subsidies, corporate bailouts, etc.) is a direct result of a poorly-functioning economy, though somehow the perception of the "deserving" vs. "undeserving" poor has always existed, and serves to differentiate the legitimacy of the transfer payment categories above.
-- John Kenneth Gaibraith
Why?
