Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
I believe welfare should help people until they are able to support themselves. Not to keep people dependent on the government, and enable people to abuse it.
What's funny is a lot of people wanting welfare checks and other government benefits contribute little to nothing to society. And they want someone else to pay for their benefits.
You know whats even funnier people dying of starvation!
So I suppose you think you're right sbout everything you've stated here....
Otherwise, you wouldn't have stated it!
Well you're right about some things, and wrong about others........
I could care less what you think of me. Just take care of your things and what you can control and don't expect me to take care of your responsibilities.
Just handle your stuff and forget about saving the world and making things "right" for everybody at the expense of others.
No welfare in the early 20th century. Looks like charity isn't enough.
that's just a picture......I don't know the personal circumstances of their parents and their whole family.
the world existed for centuries before the big welfare state. The U.S. fought a Revolution war and founded a Republic for over 150 years without the big welfare state. To say we have to have a big welfare state to survive and run a country is not true.
The free market unchecked leads to consolidation of corporations who squash competition.
Based on what exactly? I'd love to see an example of this.
Quote:
Originally Posted by BornintheSprings
This is bad for social mobility. As we saw in the early 1900s when the US was more capitalistic than it is now workers where exploited significantly some were not even paid in dollars but company script.
We saw the free market overcome this as more businesses popped up that paid a better wage. Once there was competition wages and quality of goods and services went up.
Quote:
Originally Posted by BornintheSprings
The level of power is not equal hence why some regulations are needed to keep corporations in check.
That's called crony capitalism and hurts the small business. i thought you were against that?
Quote:
Originally Posted by BornintheSprings
The same goes for providing the poor with modest programs to help them take that away and you have crime ridden favelas.
Show proof of this.
Quote:
Originally Posted by BornintheSprings
A pure free market is chaos just look at Somalia or Brazil or any number of countries that have limited social safety nets terrible places to live if you aren't wealthy.
Somalia and Brazil are not free markets. Not even close. For you to use them as examples is absurd. Especially Somolia where they don't have rights and freedoms which is paramount to a free market.
You made a few things up and when you did use examples you didn't back up what you claimed. Maybe it's the terminology you have used, dunno. Except to say the examples you presented hold no water.
Look up the reason the black unwed pregnancy rate was around 24 percent in the late 60s and is around 73 percent now. We incentivised women to have more kids out of wedlock by paying more welfare to single moms.
It went up a lot for all races/groups.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
