Alan Keyes on Welfare & Poverty
Constitutiondoes not require separation of church and state
The "separation of church and state" doctrine is a misinterpretation of the Constitution. The First Amendment prohibition of established religion aims at forbidding all government-sponsored coercion of religious conscience. It does not forbid all religious influence upon politics or society.
Source: Organizational website, RenewAmerica.us, "On The Issues" Aug 3, 2004
No socialism for poor children-invigorate families instead
Q: The United States has the highest rate of child poverty of any major Western industrialized nation. There are 13.5 million American children living in poverty. What specific plans do you have to reduce child poverty in America?
A: America need not turn to socialist measures, with all the lethargy and servility that they bring in their train, to improve the lot of its children.
A liberation of charitable and entrepreneurial energy, which my proposal to abolish the income tax would effect, and a re-invigoration of the family and the other associations that are the fruits of liberty and self-government will usher in an age of increasing prosperity, widely and deeply shared. This is the only way to help the poor compatible with American political and moral traditions; it is the way not taken in the old welfare state; it is the way we must take today.
Source: National Association of Children’s Hospitals survey Jan 8, 2000
Volunteer for community service; not via government funding
Q: Do you support funding for national community service programs such as AmeriCorps?
A: I am a great believer in volunteerism in this country, but I think it’s time we understood that it ought to be just that. The business of helping one another is a business that ought to be centered in the private sector, in the faith sector in this country. I think government’s involvement has been detrimental.
Source: Republican Debate at Dartmouth College Oct 29, 1999
Shift welfare from government to the faith sector
Government has botched up the welfare program, because when you enter the business of helping folks and - to put it frankly - you help them without the sermon, I think you do them harm. Efforts in which we are aiming to achieve mutual help for one another should be put back in the hands of the private and faith sector in this country.
Source: Republican Debate at Dartmouth College Oct 29, 1999
Disintegration of the family causes social ills
We must end government programs like the family-destroying welfare system and sex-education courses that encourage promiscuity. These programs actually hasten the moral breakdown. Our first priority should be restoring the moral and material support for the marriage-based two-parent family. The disintegration of the family is the major contributing factor in poverty, crime, violence, the decline in educational performance, and a host of other expensive social problems.
Source: www.keyes2000.org/issues/welfareandfamily.html 1/7/99 Jan 7, 1999
Jewish support of welfare for blacks causes enmity
The tragic and violent clashes between blacks and Jews are unhappily not the product of a unique and isolated set of circumstances. I believe that, unwittingly, Jewish supporters of the government-dominated welfare state approach to the economic and social problems of the black community helped to create the mentality that now produces anger and anti-Semitism in black neighborhoods. Welfare state socialism encourages
Source: Our Character, Our Future, p. 48-50 May 2, 1996
Encourage two-parent families instead of paying baby bonus
Most taxpayers are sick to death of a costly system that encourages and perpetuates poverty. The aim
is to finally correct the perverse incentive system, which seems to enforce idleness and penalize people who work hard.
Current proposals for reform don’t go far enough. They entirely neglect the damaging impact that the system has had on family structure. It discourages marriage. It promotes single-parent, female-headed households. Instead of paying what amounts to a baby bonus to unwed mothers, we should find ways to provide a marriage bonus.
Unfortunately, present proposals merely add a work requirement to the baby bonus policy, and that’s not good enough. It’s right and necessary to encourage work rather than idleness. But for real welfare reform, we need to do more than fix the economic illogic of the welfare system--we need to work at mending the family structure it has helped to undermine.
Source: Our Character, Our Future, p. 57-9 May 2, 1996
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Alan Keyes on Social Security
Supports privatization & Lock-box
* Keyes supports the following principles regarding Social Security:Allow workers to invest a portion of their payroll tax in private accounts which they manage themselves, or which are managed by private firms contracted by the government.
* Invest a portion of Social Security’s assets collectively in stocks and bonds instead of US Treasury securities
* Support a lock box measure, limiting Congress’s ability to spend Social Security and Medicare surpluses.
Source: Vote-Smart.org 2000 NPAT Jan 13, 2000
Keep our promises on Social Security benefits, guaranteed
For many years, my slogan on Social Security has been simple and clear. We’ve got to keep the promises we’ve made, because folks who have paid into the system in good faith ought to be able to expect that they will get the benefits that they have been promised. And we ought to guarantee that, even if we have to pay for it out of general revenue.
Source: Arizona Republican Primary Debate Nov 21, 1999
Let people who earn their money invest their own money
We’ve got to keep the promises we’ve made. But to make solvent, we have to stop making promises we can’t keep. We can’t keep the promise that the government is going to manage money that people earn over the course of their lifetimes better than the people who earn that money. We go out and work for it, we make the sacrifices, we have the sense to support ourselves, then we ought to be trusted to invest that money in ways that will produce the best return for us and our family.
Source: Arizona Republican Primary Debate Nov 21, 1
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Alan Keyes on Families & Children
We have suffered because of our abandonment of His name
We have suffered in this country, in the failing schools, in the broken marriages, in the rising tide of crime and violence; we have suffered, since they withdrew our right to reverence God, all the consequences that must follow from our abandonment of His name. We know that the Founders put this right first for a reason: because it is, above all, the foundation from which comes our ability to stand for and understand and defend all the other rights we claim.
Source: Rally in Blairsville, Georgia Oct 21, 2003
Don’t lower crime age as a result of adult moral failure
Q: What should be the minimum death penalty age for young felons convicted of deadly crime?
A: we ought to be lowering the age at which we judge people to be adults. I believe that the tendency in that direction now, to want to treat our children as if they are adults, is a confession of our own failure, our own failure as a society to maintain the structures of family life, to maintain the basis of moral education. As a result, yes, we have children now in whom there exists a howling moral void and those children engage in some acts that are heinous and shocking to us. But at the same time, I think we need to respect the difference that exists between children and adults. We need to insist from adults on moral accountability and moral responsibility. We need to help our children develop that ability to be mature adults. But I don’t think that we should take out our failure of moral education on younger and younger children. I think that this is a great error.
Source: GOP Debate in Manchester NH Jan 26, 2000
Save kids’ souls-they don’t need free speech
Q: In free-speech terms, do people have the right under the First Amendment should they be kept from that right on these computers? A: I don’t think it’s a free speech issue. It’s an issue of public decency. Anyplace you let our children into ought to be subject to standards of public decency that make it clear that they are not going to be polluted with garbage. Don’t use the First Amendment as some excuse to destroy our children’s lives and souls. It doesn’t have to be -- it’d be easy as pie to put a few computers off in a room you don’t let children in and let adults have access to them? You can solve the problems if you want to. The libraries right now are egregiously ignoring their responsibility to our kids, trying to claim free speech rights. I’ve got to tell you something. My kids don’t have the right to free speech. And they don’t need to have it until they grow older.
Source: GOP Debate in Michigan Jan 10, 2000
Kids need love from a two-parent marriage
Q. What’s the number one challenge facing children today?
A. Children need love. Those who by nature and the customs of a healthy society are most obliged to give this love are the child’s parents. The well-being of children is therefore primarily dependent on the health of the marriage-based, two-parent family. The most pressing “issue” for children is, then, will we as a people sustain, defend, and honor marriage, and its consequences, including the very life of the child, born or unborn.
Source: National Association of Children’s Hospitals survey Jan 8, 2000
Health insurance is family responsibility, not government’s
Q. Even if Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program enroll all “eligible” children, there would still be millions of uninsured children. How do you propose insuring each and every child in America?
A. It is not the office of government directly to insure children or anyone else for health costs. Tax and fiscal policies that promote opportunity and responsibility will restore to families the capacity to do what they can do with maximal discretion and love.care for their own flesh and blood, and those they have adopted in love. It is a common duty of all members of society to attend to the needs of children neglected by inadequate family care, but this duty falls first to the extended family and the local community, including most of all the churches, and then to localities and states. Institution of a national governmental program is a confession of failure in charity and self-government.
Source: National Association of Children’s Hospitals survey Jan 8, 2000
Radical gay agenda is destroying the family
It’s about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family. We must oppose it in the military. We must oppose it in marriage. We must oppose it if the fundamental institution of our civilization is to survive. Those unwilling to face that fact and playing games with this issue are doing so irresponsibly at the price of America’s moral foundations.
Source: (X-ref Civil Rights) Republican Debate in Durham, NH Jan 6, 2000
Shape our children’s consciences in the fear of God
Q: How would you interrupt this culture of violence? A: The first thing we have to do is restore this country’s allegiance to its basic moral principles. We express great shock and outrage that we are bloodying the hallways of our schools with the blood of our children. What about the blood of our children killed in the womb on the basis of a doctrine that completely rejects the basic principles on which this nation was founded? If our rights come from God, then we ought to shape our children’s consciences in the fear of God. And I think that what we’re seeing in our schools is the direct result of our failure to respect that heritage and to pass it on.
Source: Des Moines Iowa GOP Debate Dec 13, 1999
Disintegration of the family causes social ills
We must end government programs like the family-destroying welfare system and sex-education courses that encourage promiscuity. These programs actually hasten the moral breakdown. Our first priority should be restoring the moral and material support for the marriage-based two-parent family. The disintegration of the family is the major contributing factor in poverty, crime, violence, the decline in educational performance, and a host of other expensive social problems.
Source: (Cross-ref from Welfare Reform) www.keyes2000.org/issues/wel Jun 14, 1999
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