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Originally Posted by Evans, Marv
BE911SC - I think you understand what I'm saying. I don't begrudge veterans the right to treatment and care connected to their service. They suffered that in service to their Country and should be taken care of. As a veteran myself, I qualify but didn't suffer any service related wounds or trauma and, in my opinion, reserve that right to those who have earned it. Obviously Social Security (which I qualify for), Medicare (which I qualify for), welfare, etc. for those white folks(as you say) or otherwise are also parts of our giant welfare system. As far as "Welfare" to the poor, I personally am not against helping out people in need either, but not for a lifetime. I've said on here a couple of times, I worked with the welfare system for a number of years. I witnessed first hand the inefficiency, waste, and dependency it fostered. All these need to be redone and streamlined to efficiently do what they were intended to do. However we all know that will never happen.
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I do Marv. (I'm a vet as well.) Welfare programs could certainly use an overhaul. I say we start by slashing--no--eliminating corporate welfare. (We can begin by stopping corn subsidies that put ethanol in gasoline.) Make this a true, "unfettered, free-market" capitalist nirvana with no government financial help allowed. Sink or swim, no government lifeguard with a huge treasury to save you. Want the government off your back? Okay, Wall Street, Monsanto, etc., you're on your own! But you're right, that will never happen. Government of, by and for the corporations and the most powerful. Far easier to pick on the weaker and the helpless. Make us fight among ourselves for the scraps thrown our way.
Again, the postwar period of unprecedented affluence spread among the greater population is over. It ended, for all intents and purposes, by 1980 and we have been coasting on debt and deficit-spending ever since. Both the government and households have been deficit-spending. We used to pay for it with our prosperity but we can no longer do so. The system has been slowly dismantled and rebuilt to favor a few. The rest of us are just going to have to adapt to the new paradigm.