The welfare state reduces a citizen to a client, subordinates them to a bureaucrat, and subjects them to rules that are anti-work, anti-family, anti-opportunity and anti-property … Humans forced to suffer under such anti-human rules naturally develop pathologies. The evening news is the natural result of the welfare state.
2007-01-13 14:18:56 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I would agree with you on every point. The more we give to people for not working, the less likely it is they will want to work. Its just another step towards socialism and a failed society/economy
2007-01-13 14:23:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
I don't think the evening news is the cause. I think that the rules of the welfare system help to cause this and the culture it breeds. Poverty breeds poverty, I don't understand why. I had to use Medicaid when I was pregnant and I had to lie to get it, I made 900 a month but that was 100 dollars to much, so I had to lie on that, then I had to say that my boyfriend didn't live with me. We had no money but both had jobs, all of these hoops to get 140 in food stamps a month. It was a pain and I wouldn't want to do it again. I was only helped by the state for less than a year, but I was also paying taxes at the time and I fully support anyone else who uses the states help but not for an extended time.
2007-01-13 22:28:36 · answer #2 · answered by Kris 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is why we have a great need in this land of so many opportunities to stop people from finding the easy street to welfare. Keep them in school, do not let them drop out. Someone actually say the words "Don't have sex and you won't have babies". Then, find a job, any job just get out to work.If it's only $8 and hr and not enough get a second job! For crying out loud there is no need for all this poverty and poverty state of mind. We all have to make choices and it's about time some of these people quit feeling sorry for their poor choices and blaming it on everyone else and get a grip on their lives. But the best solution is to stop it right at the school level. I'm tired of supporting those who could do it themselves.
2007-01-13 22:32:50 · answer #3 · answered by Brianne 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The right to the basic necessities of life is a fundamental human right, and people should not be allowed to suffer unnecessarily through lack of provision.
The "welfare state" does not make citizens dependent and less inclined to work. (A. B. Atkinson, Incomes and the Welfare State, Cambridge University Press 1995)
Similarly, there is no evidence for the contention that welfare state impedes progressive social development. R. Goodin et al, in The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2000), show that on major economic and social indicators, the USA performs worse than the Netherlands, which has a high commitment to welfare provision.
Poverty leads to crime. Welfare eases poverty. Rates of violent crimes in "high welfare" states (like the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark) is much lower that the crime rate in the US.
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2007-01-13 22:51:23 · answer #4 · answered by john_stolworthy 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Think that is a little over the top, but does have some merit. Well fare state is designed to aid the poor, and will encourage the lazy. It is a degree of Robinhood, take from the affluent and give to the poor, so we the affluent and poor all live poor. So maybe I'm getting a little over the top, just a different spin.
2007-01-13 22:28:36 · answer #5 · answered by longroad 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is why so many conservatives are against welfare.
I read a book by C Mason Weaver, a former Black Panther and converted conservative. He mentions the difference between slaves and prisoners. Slaves take what is dealt to them. Prisoners are temporarily devoid of freedom. He goes on to discuss how the "black leaders" have become slave masters the way they hand out welfare and other needs. The people he refers to are Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. They are the cancer that feeds off of the black community.
2007-01-13 22:25:43 · answer #6 · answered by Chainsaw 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Is there a state you have in mind? Michigan is sorta welfare people too, but I could never get any help. I'm the wrong everything, but still even as educated as I am, have not been able to get a job.
So, where'd this come from? Are you talking about New Orleans?
2007-01-13 22:25:00 · answer #7 · answered by chole_24 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A people are only as strong as there will to not be subjugated under tyrannical rule of an out of control government...
Another words you can not be a slave unless you make yourself one and bow to the will of the so called master...
2007-01-13 22:26:25 · answer #8 · answered by no one here gets out alive 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think it could not be more wrong. Capitalism reduces a worker to a cog in a machine. Capitalism systematically takes the product of workers and redistributes it to capital owners who have done nothing to earn it.
Humans forced to suffer under such anti-human rules naturally develop pathologies. Most of what you see on the evening news is the natural result of capitalism.
2007-01-13 22:27:38 · answer #9 · answered by Longhaired Freaky Person 4 · 1⤊ 5⤋
Not much. Human pathologies have been around a lot longer than the wellfare state has.
2007-01-13 22:24:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋