why democrats believe in entitlement?

Question

what are democrats doing to encourage welfare recipients to get jobs and stop using the government and other peoples' tax money? why do democrats think that people are entitled to other peoples' things? Im not a conservative because of christians who believe in "you reep what you sow", im a conservative because Im sick of government being everywhere and always wanting everyone's money. giving to disabled people is ok of course, thats not the issue. ever heard of private property or of ownership by any chance? is wealth "earned" or is wealth "distributed"?

Answer 1

If you believe in private property and ownership, then why do you think it's okay to redistribute money to disabled people? If it's wrong for the government to encroach on my freedoms by stealing my hard-earned money, then it's just as wrong no matter who the recipient is.

Answer 2

The on set of entitlements was in it conception a good thing when they were first implemented but as we all know Government has a hard time looking at stats and making the necessary changes to keep things on track. Once again they failed to do their jobs and correct these entitlement programs before the changing demo graphs of the country put us in peril.While the ratios of people collecting to those paying in changed dramatically the pandering politicians did nothing but give lip service instead of being the leadership personalities that they were elected to be.Originally SS was intended to help war widows and then expanded to the program it is to day with out any changes being made to allocate for the changing landscape of our nation.Typical of Congress to ignore the issue till it festers into a sore.

Answer 3

Let's see.

Prior to the 2006 elections, the Republicans had total control of government. Congress and the executive branch.

They felt that the welfare system was totally broken.

So they did WHAT to try to make the system better? So rather than complain about what the Republicans didn't do, you're going to put all of the blame on the Democrats. Kinda missing the point aren't you?

While you're talking about entitlements, you want to go down the road of corporate entitlements? Tax breaks and higher taxes to pay off sugar beet farmers so that they can cause the candy companies in the US to move out of the country. How about tax incentives for pharmaceutical companies to produce products outside of the country? How about law suit protections for the pharmaceutical companies? How about giving tax breaks to oil companies, while they are declaring some of the highest profits in the history of the country? You think $71.00/barrel oil isn't incentive enough for the oil companies?

Please. It cuts both ways.

Answer 4

Well it was the Democratic President Clinton that signed the 1996 Welfare Reform Act that required that welfare recipients work or get job training to continue to qualify for assistance. And further that law set a 60 months cumulative life-time limit on assistance. The Republican party has been in control of both houses of Congress and the Presidency for six years. They passed a government drug prescription plan with no revenue source to pay for it. Who is supporting entitlement?

Answer 5

It seems to me you forget that Clinton overhauled the welfare system during his tenure as President. As he said, the system should be used as a hand up, not a hand out. If used properly the welfare system is a shining example of the principles we espouse as a nation. I believe although there is definitely fraud in the system, it is a relatively minor problem taken as a whole.
Why do Democrats believe in entitlement? I think it is because most of us, instead of spouting off about Christian values and not following them, live them and spout off less.

Answer 6

I think the basis for it is basically a poor upbringing. These people were not raised right. Family values and moral responsibility mean nothing to them. They are beyond understanding in this matter, totally hopeless. If you are not a criminal, you do not have an understanding of how the criminal mind operates. To them the rich, people who make wiser choices and achieve more are criminal, because they do not understand the value of hard work. If you have never experienced it, you have no way of understanding it, the sense of pride you get from earning something has never been felt by many of these people. Many of them feel guilty because they have more than the average person, and want to force everybody to be equal to resolve thier own guilt. They are just mis-guided and imoral, they can't help it, the do not know any better.

Answer 7

Social Security is an entitlement program that has kept millions elderly Americans out of poverty. Even Ronald Reagan had good things to say about it. See:

http://tinyurl.com/2x4r25 (Reagan on Social Security - part 1 on You Tube)

http://tinyurl.com/2doeb8 (Reagan on Social Security - part 2 on You Tube)

Social Security is paid for by a special tax on worker's wages and self-employment income (FICA taxes) that is earmarked exclusively for Social Security Benefits. Workers are entitled to benefits because they pay for the benefits of workers who are already retired. As a result of the 1983 reforms mentioned in Reagan's speech, the program has been running at a big surplus - in anticipation of the retirement of the baby boom generation. Unfortunately, with the consent of both Democrats and Republicans, the federal budget has been running at a big deficit, and the surplus is being borrowed and spent with no plan in place to pay it back when it is needed to pay benefits.

Answer 8

Plain and simple, they want to buy votes with our money. It's sick, twisted and wrong. It started in 1913 with the passing of Amendment 16 to the Constitution under a Democrat president (Wilson) and from then Democrats have been sold on the idea that it's not your money - it's theirs. It's time to appeal the 16th and go back to sales and property taxes where you give only what you decide to give in taxes and property rights are unbreakable individual right.

Answer 9

Yes, let us just let the elderly die and the children of stupid druggie lazy parents starve to death. Jimmy Cater tried to get welfare recipients to at least do community work and was shot down. We don't believe in entitlement, just helping our fellow man. We need to weed out the abusers. I don't see conservatives trying to put any emphasis on that, they just want it all gone. Great Christians.

Answer 10

Sounds like communism,

"I can't find a job"
"it's the economy"
"George Bush doesn't like Black people"

You can find a job
The economy is good enough for to find a job, maybe not a good one, but you can find one
George Bush is a politician, as long as you vote for him, he loves you

These complaints need to be paired up with these responses before anything will change in the welfare system