[techweenie]

Good lord. So today's "left" are being tagged as originating welfare?

You really have to go back to the 1930s to find anything the 'left' got wrong?

Do you realize that nobody responsible for the New Deal is still alive?

If you expect somebody to step up and define "welfare" you have to think back to what preceeded it. The poorhouse preceeded it. For 100 or so years. In fact, formally or informally, there has been welfare or 'relief' on a community-sponsored basis pretty much since before the founding of this country.

Do you want to draw a line and specify just what aspect of 'welfare' is bad? Can you name a program? Or is it just the whole concept of offering food and shelter to poor people?