Paskil wrote:
The Great BrownDuck wrote:
TirithRR wrote:
yet see families on welfare who's parents didn't have to work, didn't try to work, and they were just as well off as I was in the end.
Yeah it's amazing what free/nearly free housing and free medical care can do for a family's budget.
So I suppose you'd rather they joined the strong rank of the 50 million other uninsured in this country? Unemployment wages are taxed, welfare, dunno. One way or another, these people are paying taxes and deserve to have their share of the government pie. They simply utilize a different slice than you do.
Welfare income is not taxed. These people pay nothing of their share of debt to society. Look, I'm not fabricating an opinion based on public bias or assumptions - my mother became a welfare junkie shortly after my youngest sister was born. I was 14 at the time, and from the onset, I could see how she and others in our housing project were merely abusing the system because they were lazy / unmotivated. I've seen it all, and my hatred for welfare abuse stems from those personal experiences. I retained a 40 hour a week job from the first week after I turned 16 and moved out on my own at the age of 17 to break away from it all. My own mother was arrested for reselling prescription drugs she obtained for free through the Medicaid system (the catalyst for my sister moving up here, actually).
Welfare, as it exists today, is little more than a social disease.
I do make an exception for unemployment, with the caveat that only people are laid off for reasons beyond their control deserve it. There are some who get fired for reasons well within their control and choose to milk unemployment for the maximum benefit period before even beginning to seek other employment. These people are no better than the bottom feeders.
Edited, Jan 17th 2009 8:38pm by BrownDuck