re: #236 Fozzie Bear

If you think charity will do what a well funded social program will, you may not be scum, but you sure as hell are stupid.

“The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in the community. That has been the American way of relieving distress among our own people and the country is successfully meeting its problem in the American way today. “

Herbert Hoover, rejecting Federal relief appropriations, 1931