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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] Cool Down. I never said Welfare shouldn't exist. Actually, I think your friend deserves kudos for what he's done, and I think MORE money should be available to help out people in situations just like his. THAT is what welfare should be for. Besides, you don't pay taxes on welfare benefits, do you? I mean, you're expecting, now that he's in college and one of his sisters is too, that he'll be OFF welfare eventually, right? That's good. That's what should be being strived for. But it isn't, and THAT'S the problem I have with it. Like you said, his job HAS to pay him 'under the table' because the welfare folks would cut him off if they didn't. That shouldn't be allowed. They should, really, add to his benefits for working. I think that'd be right. Your friend Dante's a good man, willing to work for a better life. So is my gf, except she's a woman. Both need help, both get SOME, but just enough to keep them dependent, without resorting to 'shady' means. The system needs serious reform in that area. My gripe isn't about these people. More power to them. My gripe is about the people who AREN'T trying, and despite propaganda to teh contrary, we probably ALL know examples of what we mean. People who screw it up themselves, and want us to clean up the mess. Dante didn't screw it up, but his 'long gone' dad did. My gf didn't screw it up, but her illness did. Neither of them should suffer for things that are not their fault. They should both be helped until they are self-sufficient. I WANT to pay taxes for that. But these people who sit at home and vegetate, who pop out one after another kid, who blow their money on booze and drugs and fraud... screw them. Don't say they aren't out there, I KNOW these people. Help their kids, any way you can, but keep their parents' grubby hands off the money, because they'll only waste it. Anyways, now that we're sufficiently off topic, who's going to lead us back? It was the promise of a tax cut that got Reagan elected in 1980. He kept that promise, and the economic growth that followed got Reagan re-elected in 1984. It was the promise of "now new taxes" that got Bush Sr. elected in 1988, and it was breaking that promise that cost Bush Sr. the presidency in 1992. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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