> There is nothing wrong with a welfare
state if fraudsters could be excluded
> and claimants could be assessed by local people who know the true
> situation. But, with a centralised bureaucratic control, vast amounts of
> fraud can take place. I know several people who've been misclaiming for years.
> and claimants could be assessed by local people who know the true
> situation. But, with a centralised bureaucratic control, vast amounts of
> fraud can take place. I know several people who've been misclaiming for years.
Were those "people" individuals or corporations?
>
> However, the biggest fault of the welfare state is that it creates an
> ever-widening state of dependency which demeans the individual and saps any
> form of enterprise.
The true dependency is the dependency not on inner
motivation and emotionally mature work but on external need and shallow short
term processes that demand a daddy or a mommy figure above them before they will
do anything significant. In short the problem is psychological and
spiritual maturity that makes people want to go out into the world and
accomplish. In that case money is a facilitator and not a motivator.
Ray Evans Harrell, resident artist
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