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  • NO! You're preachin to the chore sister.
  • That's too simplistic and one-sided. Yes, it is true that handing out money tends to effect the choices that people make -- i.e. to work or not to work. But that's not the only factor, you have to look at the details of each situation and plan. So for example, if unemployment is high because the economy is going through a recession, a certain percentage of the population simply cannot find jobs. Should the poorest of that group simply be allowed to starve to death? There are social consequences for such a position: people who are starving are desperate, that drives up crime rates. Having soup kitchens and subsidized food programs helps to soften that. Another example: the fact that you are subsidizing a poor family does not mean they have no incentive to work. Many programs have "stratified" benefits: i.e. if you work and earn money, the program pays less, but still pays something, until you reach a certain threshold. So the poor can improve their condition by working, and continue to receive some benefit as their income increases until they exit the program. Most people do not want to stay "stuck" at the very low level of income provided by these programs. Also, some programs are time-limited: they allow a poor family a short-term bridge, but are not a permanent solution. The fear of losing all income serves as an incentive to get work. As for whether "others deserve what you have worked hard to earn", that question can be turned around. Do you deserve the benefits you've received by being a citizen? Others paid for the roads you're driving on, the police you're calling, the defense organizations protecting you. If you're working hard, and paying taxes, it doesn't necessarily mean that you're paying enough taxes to cover the cost of all those services. We're all in life together, poor and rich. Getting society as a whole to work together, fighting poverty, combating greed and ignorance and bigotry, ensuring the rights of all... this is not an easy matter. Life is inherently complicated. Oversimplified positions like "screw them, I earn my own money and pay my own way" just don't help at all.
  • How dumb are you? Seriously. We don't subsidize teachers, we pay them. We don't subsidize poor people, we help them and nowadays more and more people are poor in the US and that's because of the greed and ignorance of companies and a regime that thought exactly like you do. In fact, the evidence is overwhelming that helping the poor reduces poverty. It does not increase it. Learn a little basic economics before opening your mouth and embarrassing yourself next time.
  • Actually, when you allow corporations to line the pockets of their CEOs and let them get multi-million-dollar performance bonuses even when they fail to perform and allow them Golden Parachutes as the people that got laid off and forced to look for jobs that aren't there are left with nothing, THEN you get more poor people. When all of the money trickles up and stays there instead of creating jobs as it has over the last few years, you get more poor people. I'm not saying Communism or Socialism are solutions, merely that our system as it is currently is what creates poor people. When you have wages for over 90% of us barely keeping pace with inflation (and, in certain income brackets, falling behind) you get more poor people plus the added downside that those who actually *do* deserve to succeed are merely surviving instead of thriving. Do others deserve what I worked hard to earn? Well, if my hard work allows my company to make a profit then I don't think my boss deserves to be the only one rewarded.
  • It's all about getting votes, keep people dependent on the government and they will vote for the one that supports that agenda.
  • It's all about getting votes, keep people dependent on the government and they will vote for whoever supports that agenda.
  • So why is it that Republicans are so vehemently AGAINST subsidizing Working class Americans?

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