Articles: 'Mountain Pride' versus the Welfare State: The federal government is choking our economy while it degrades the character of a proud people. The food stamp program is purposefully undermining "mountain pride" in Appalachian communities in order to create more wards of the welfare state.
It should be a scandal that the federal government is purposefully weakening a core principle of our value system: self-reliance. To wit, the feds are praising local bureaucrats for "counteracting" what they call "mountain pride." These bureaucrats are convincing people who characteristically reject food stamps to instead embrace a culture of dependence.
The full context of those remarks highlights the sordid behavior of our welfare state...
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