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• The Ballooning Welfare State

  August 30, 2010 at 11:36pm

  Interesting. Not a liberal or centrist on this site is there? Oops! Not true-

  Welfare needs to be overhauled yes but trusting people to help out others will never work. It never has worked and it never will work. If you had the choice not to have to pay to help out people with disabilities, you wouldn’t. Admit it. Most people will not do a good thing unless they have to, for whatever their justification (not enough money, not enough spare money, not enough for their own children, etc). Are you ready for your blind nephew to come live with you because his parents are dead and can’t take care of him any more?

  How about all those kids those unmarried mothers kick out left and right and drop into the welfare system, either into foster care or need a buck to take care of the six or seven paychecks er- sorry, babies, they have?
  Or how about all those people who have children and do unspeakable things to them because they should have been sterilized rather than be allowed to breed and those kids end up in the system, needing therapy and drugs to keep them relatively sane.

  Who’s gonna pay for all of that? Tell me, honestly, you’d donate enough money to pay for the care and the feeding and the therapy, etc of all those people? All the people with birth defects and disabilities, all the people with expensive congenital disorders that cost $3K a day to keep them alive?

  Really.

  Why don‘t we just let ’em all die or better yet, why don’t we do what we did oh three or four centuries ago and just put them out in the woods and let the animals have a good meal- they’re not good for anything else are they?

  Its great to say all this idealistic stuff and while I DO agree that welfare is broken, too many people say “do away with big government, do away with this or that program” without even considering exactly what the program does and how it makes your lives convenient, safer and above all, free of guilt from seeing all those sick, crazy and deformed people decorating the streets begging for scraps or going nutbar over tea kettle and breaking into your house and slashing you into salsa in your sleep.