How to Care for the Poor

... can be learned from history. U. S. history. After all, we weren't always rich. Nearly everyone who came to America came here in poverty and came to a country without the monstrous social spending we have today. Those people created this country. If it worked then, why is it condemned as a failure today? Why is the answer to poverty now the opposite of the answer a century ago?

This idea came to me while watching the Milton Friedman video in this excellent blog post over at our Monastery of Miscellaneous Musings. Watch the video and see what you think.

Fortunately for these immigrants, they did not receive endless government assistance.