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Originally Posted by sammyg2
No one should be on welfare for life. No one. Social security and private charity are supposed to take care of that.
I say welfare for three years and the benefits start shrinking down until after 5 years they are over. And no one can receive more than 5 full years of benefits in a lifetime.
That'd create one hell of a surplus and it's teach people to work.
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How are you going to "teach" someone with MS or severe rheumatoid arthritis, or an IQ of 65 to work?
Social security should be for the retirement of working men and women. Welfare should be for the indigent. SS would be be solvent now if it weren't being spent for welfare. It's wrong to pay for taking care of the sick and the lame out of a fund paid for
only by working men and women. Pay for their aid out of the general fund that everyone pays in to - welfare. What you suggest is yet another way to transfer the cost of government away from income and onto the wages of working people.