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Originally Posted by Robbie
I'll bet there are lots of people working to improve themselves that could also use some help paying the rest of their bills. Maybe a little spending money for the weekend. How about vacations? A little help with a new car?
Look, I know what you are saying...but I'll say this again...I wasn't put on this Earth to be a slave. My work should pay for MY needs and MY family.
Not yours or a bunch of "young people" who just need some "help".
Throughout mankind's history people have gotten by and did what they had to do.
Now, all of a sudden...people just can't make it without other people taking care of them?
Amelia is right. The prevailing attitude that it's okay to take other people's money to pay the bills because a person just can't do it themselves...is fucking up our society.
If I CHOOSE to help someone not in my immediate family, I will do so through charitable acts.
Instead I am being FORCED.
That's not "helping". That's getting robbed.
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In theory one way to solve the problem is to just eliminate any kind of safety net or welfare type programs. Just get rid of all of them and people can take care of their own just like they did in the past.
To me one of the problems with all of these safety net things is that they have now begun subsidizing businesses. If there was no food stamps or welfare or housing assistance etc people would demand better wages because they wouldn't have any other option. They couldn't go to work and make very little then get a bunch of welfare help and actually live a decent life and they have little motivation to improve themselves.