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They already do -- Welfare to Work. Plus cash assistance is limited to 5 years total over a lifetime. Plus, you know, "assess how they are spending the money they get", arent you asking that the government be intrusive, there? Why not let the free market work, in this case?
Anyway, you might look up the state of welfare and how it's changed since 1996 or thereabouts.
You might look in some poor people's houses and see their cable boxes, playstations, crates of coke, and bags of cheetos.
I spend my life intimately involved in the lives of the poor. i see the waste firsthand. Do you?
Yes. If you are going to forcibly take my money, I do get to say how you spend it.
The people that sell play stations, cable boxes, cola and cheetos do not care where the money came from so long as their bills are paid. Supporting the poor is a byproduct of sustaining the cash flow to the private sector suppliers. There are plenty of commercial real estate investors that have become quite well off living on welfare rent money.
If we just wanted to keep the poor from starving and/or freezing in the dark we would put all of them in government owned concentration camps and supply them with the required food, water and shelter. We once called these poor houses, poor farms or debtors prisons and the commercial sector benefited very little from the arrangement.
They already do -- Welfare to Work. Plus cash assistance is limited to 5 years total over a lifetime. Plus, you know, "assess how they are spending the money they get", arent you asking that the government be intrusive, there? Why not let the free market work, in this case?
Anyway, you might look up the state of welfare and how it's changed since 1996 or thereabouts.
Hey the government is all over TARP recipients and how they compensate their employees. You argue that this is OK since it is tax payer money. How is this different? Welfare recipients are using tax payer money, don't we deserve a say in how it is spent?
Your pretty selective in how and when you want the free market to work.
If I was making 300k from investing a 6 million dollar lottery or inheritance I would consider myself very rich indeed. If I was working 80+ hours per week for the money I would consider myself well paid but not rich.
If I was making 300k from investing a 6 million dollar lottery or inheritance I would consider myself very rich indeed. If I was working 80+ hours per week for the money I would consider myself well paid but not rich.
Most people I know in that salary range are the working 80 hour types.
I would likely prefer "free markets" with a large inheritance for the ante. Without the inheritance and socialist economy is far better.
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