I grew up a kid in the Boston inner city in the Boston (Live in Jamacia Plain, my grandfathers auto repair shops were in Roxbury mid 1960s till 1970 then Dorchester till 1984)
I saw as a kid welfare families every single day.
Back then most all of them were skinny thin people, lots down on their luck , lots victims of lack of opportunity , lots just plain stupid.
2-3 generations later most cases the only skinny people you will find in those neighborhoods are the drug attics. And the majority on the doll are proud of it and expect the handouts !
Ya.
Our welfare system betters people's lives & makes us a better society !
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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
But it's not the same effect as what happens in the free market.
Let's say i choose to buy a car. I choose to trade my money for the car, and the dealership agrees to trade the car for my money. Both parties enter the contract voluntarily, and thus both parties realize an economic benefit.
I don't know why you don't grasp this, but that's not what happens with government spending. In that case, my money gets involuntarily confiscated from me in the form of taxes, and I have little to no say in how it gets spent. Furthermore, in the current environment, the welfare programs may be doing as much harm as good, as they create a sense of entitlement that many poor folks get addicted to. They are therefore willing to not work, and collect welfare instead.
That does not represent wealth creation, it is wealth reduction.
We have 40 years of empirical evidence to see what happens when you throw money at the problem of poverty. Often, poor people are not poor because of a lack of money, they are poor because of behavioral issues. Those issues may not be solved, and indeed may be exacerbated, when you hand those people a check.
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