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Originally posted by Superman
I wonder though......I wonder if there is a way to enhance incentives. I mean, aside from the brilliant suggestion that we let them starve. Quite frankly, my personal belief is that it is possible to restructure social programs so that they both cost less.....and are more effective. Here "effective" means that people are entering jobs and careers they would not have but for the programs and those jobs and careers are making welfare "contributors" out of welfare "recipients." It also means that the cycle of laziness or whatever you think it is (some think it is cultural/educational, but you guys know best), and that children are taken care of and taught how to achieve.
I think this can be done. I think it could be, in the long run, less expensive than current "handout" systems. But here's the catch: I think it will be more expensive up front.
Either that, or maybe we should just go with Legion's insightful and responsible plan of letting them starve until they "see the light."
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I'd offer "survival" security for anyone who wants it -- just as long as they under go mandatory sterilization before they receive any assistance.
Some might say my suggestion is "radical," but stop and think about it:
If a person is not even capable of sustaining their own life, logically, they are clearly incapable of providing for offspring and should not have any. (This is the "law of the jungle" -- only the "fit" get to reproduce; we've kind of messed up the natural evolutionary forces that got our species to its current position, the welfare system supports and rewards those least qualified to reproduce.)
One of the greatest benefits that we would gain, if, as a society we implemented a strict program of "sterilization before any free lunch," is that we would
finally be able to determine once-and-for-all if there really are "born losers."
If, over a generation or two of a mandatory sterilization program for the "free-loaders," the free-loading population disappeared, we would know that the "lack of ambition" behavior was an inbred behavior. If on-the-other-hand, a free-loading population remained, generation after generation, we would know there are other elements at work creating the behavior besides genetics.