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America needs to put policies in place that allow for economic growth and well-paying jobs that will eliminate the benefits to scamming entitlement programs.
Wal Mart is by far the largest employer for people receiving welfare and it has been said that they actually teach their employees how to best qualify for Medicaid/Food Stamps while still working.
Get Middle-Class jobs back and then we can talk about cutting welfare programs.
All these poverty programs have created only more poverty.
In fact millions of very poor people are crashing the borders to get in on our poverty because it pays so nicely.
Take a look at lkm370's chart again. It seems to show the opposite of what you're saying. How do you account for the significant reductions in poverty when you say that the programs have 'created only more poverty'?
So I guess those Dicken's novels were about all that social spending in Britain at that time.
The social programs are just a reaction. The wealthy love them for two reasons. One they can scape goat the welfare class, and they can pacify the desperate rabble. The wealthy accuse everyone else of class warfare when in fact it is they they institutionalized the class wars of the lower classes. While I consider the welfare state the second greatest blight on this country, its from the same source of of British merchantalism. I don't like $5 dead beats either but I really don't like 5 billion dollar dead beats.
Haven't you ever noticed its the wealthy who are most behind the welfare state?
Last I checked those programs were in existence when those men were alive.
But people who have not lived for several years are not good examples of what mainstream modern conservatism stands for.
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