The biggest safety programs we have are welfare, medicaid and foodstamps. Eliminate them and see how the herd will separate into those who can and those who leave this earthly coil.
worst mistake we ever made was falling victim to that claptrap. It bred the spine right out of us.
I consider it a major part of the secularization of society. That which used to be the domain of the church (i.e. caring for the hungry, sick, and others under misfortune) was transferred to the state. Upon transferring to the state it was something abstracted onto Washington and state capitals, became grossly inefficient in actually improving the lot of people, and most crucially it denied the "donors" their sense of voluntary charity and the "recipients" the sense of responsibility. Matters were made worse by religious groups actively encouraging the state to step in, even telling their congregants that rendering unto Caesar and tithing were now essentially the same thing.
Charity should be voluntary (and btw conservatives are statistically far more charitable with their own money than are liberals) and administered through local aid groups. This results in more of each dollar reaching the intended purpose, and it also preserves a type of local knowledge as to who is genuinely needy vs. who is just a lazy grifter.
But just like our tax code, it's not really about what it's about. Like the tax code, the whole apparatus of welfare spending is more about social engineering, about arranging society in a manner more compliant with the desires of the Left's faculty lounge pontificators. How else can you explain the fact that we've spent trillions of dollars since LBJ but the Problem
TM never goes away? A recent study showed that you could literally just give every welfare recipient $40,000 per year and it would cost less than what we're spending in the aggregate.
Nothing is ever what it seems with the Left. It can't be, because it would then be repellent to people.
