Jimmy John’s restaurant chain founder Jimmy John Liautaud told Breitbart News that welfare destroys “a man’s soul” and America’s businesses in an exclusive interview at Turning Point USA’s annual AmericaFest conference in Phoenix, Arizona.
“There’s 14 states that are giving out between $80,000 and $100,000 a year in welfare for a family of four. Well, that’s just not sustainable,” Liautaud told Breitbart News.
“And nor is it good for the recipients of the welfare,” he continued, “Maybe for a short time, but if they’re capable, you destroy a man’s soul. You destroy a family. You don’t want to give them a fish. You want to teach them to fish.”
“When the government is your biggest competitor, it makes it really, really hard to start a small business,” Liautaud said. “When there’s five or six million people that are unemployed, that are totally capable, that are earning this free money from the government.”
The Jimmy John’s founder went on to say that “the government works for us, and they serve us. We don’t serve them.”

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