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Originally posted by Moneyguy1
People on "welfare" lumped together in some folk's minds as being abusers of the system. There have been posts that have not differentiated between, say, the elderly, children, and the physically/mentally handicapped. A society must be willing to give assistance to those truly in need or be prepared to spiral down to a level where the caste system in some form or another rears its ugly head. I wish, len, I could direct you to a specific thread but there was one where there were even snipes taken at those unfortunate to have lost everything due to the collapse of specific corporations. Call me a bleeding heart (although I am far from that), but it is just wrong to dismiss those truly less fortunate. Maybe it is my work with some of these folks that have changed my mind over time.
Sorry for the rant.
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Fair enough, but I think it's more likely that when you hear people rage against entitlement and assistance programs you get the wrong idea. It is not that they/we don't want to help those in true need, it is that these programs end up creating the very problems they proclaim to address. The whole "comfortable in poverty" argument.
The net they cast is much too large and most everyone caught in it is harmed by the experience, for many it is multi generational harm.