In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d.<\/p>\n
The question of whether the Welfare state is good or bad depends for far too many people on whether they are benefiting or if someone else is benefitting instead of them. \u00a0 Between the GOP\u2019s economic Leftward lurch and the Democrats trying to pay-off student debt or pay for home down payments, the question if welfare has done more harm than good<\/a> is again an active one, just as it was thirty years ago when this was debated between William F. Buckley, Jr., Wayne R. Bryant, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Charles A. Murray, Robert L. Woodson, Frances Fox Piven, Robert Greenstein, Charles B. Rangel, with moderation by Michael E. Kinsley.<\/p>\n