> 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.
>
> 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.
Keith, I do hope you're not suggesting that the upper echelons of Enron,
Arthur Anderson, WorldCom, etc., etc., did what they did because they were
former welfare cases.
With respect,
Ed
