Just one of the reasons I can never be a Republican. In the name of morality, immorality --or no better than indifference. This hardly means that all welfare is OK, especially not when entire subclasses of people abuse the system. But why is corporate welfare OK and big bank bailouts ? Of course , about such things the Republicans are hardly alone. About various other things the Democrats are worse, so I can no longer be a Democrat, either. Basically I am fed up with lesser-of-two-evils political choices. Billy 10/20/2011 2:22:20 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
On Oct 20, 2011 4:15pm, [email protected] wrote: > Mike, > > > Again, no real problems with your ideas. > > There are some practical matters > but basically you are on the right track. > > For example, what if someone > cannot work due to injury or debilitating > disease ? > That's a point that must be taken. The current popular definition of "welfare" as "giving money to anyone who DOESN'T work" is flawed in that sense. My wife is visually impaired, and somewhere down the road will likely be completely blind, living on SSDI and whatever income I make. However, as witness some of the demonstrations at GOP debates, there are those who would begrudge her that, calling it a handout. Let her sell pencils on a street corner or beg for alms...but the religious probably wouldn't go for that either. I hope those folks truly do represent a lunatic fringe among the Tea Party, and are not representative of the whole. -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: _http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism_ (http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism) Radical Centrism website and blog: _http://RadicalCentrism.org_ (http://radicalcentrism.org/) -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
