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Re: A few "welfare" myths [Re: Cornholio]
    #1748772 - 07/25/03 03:55 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

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We've had this debate before, and luvie feels that only conservatives are entitled to interpret what "general welfare" means.



Actually what I said was it doesn't say general welfare of the citizens, but it does say general welfare of the United States.

If you would take the time to read a bit, such as the Federalist papers, the founders speak of what they meant by it. I can assure you it wasn't hand outs to lazy fucks.

While you're at it, read them all. I won't call them a good read, but they are quite informative.


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Re: A few "welfare" myths [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #1748807 - 07/25/03 04:10 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

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luvdemshrooms said:
I can assure you it wasn't hand outs to lazy fucks.


I agree, it's definitely not good for the general welfare of the United States to give hand outs to lazy fucks.  But handouts to people who just got laid off, or to people who are retarded, etc... well, that's another story.  :smirk: 


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Re: A few "welfare" myths [Re: Cornholio]
    #1748812 - 07/25/03 04:13 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

As I said, read the Federalist papers.


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Re: A few "welfare" myths [Re: Xlea321]
    #1748933 - 07/25/03 04:51 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

I haven't read all these replies to this most excellent post...I'm a little hurriedto throw my two cents in here...

Poverty in a modern society (like the USA), is a result of social engineering. NAIRU theory?

It's when the labour market gets too hot, then interest rates are cranked up to slow the economy, thus increasing unemployment. It is done to preserve the value of assets from inflation. (wage inflation mostly)

It is practised to a greater extent in Canada than USA, but every country employs some form of it.

It relegates a portion of society to poverty. A great man once said..."workers have no bargaining power when there are crowds of unemployed willing to work for less, rather than have nothing" or something to that effect.

Anyways, good post Alex123.


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Re: A few "welfare" myths [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #1749039 - 07/25/03 05:33 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

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As I said, read the Federalist papers.
 


Ok, I read them.  And I found nothing supporting your argument that general welfare is not to be used for helping individuals.  The only thing I could find that came close to addressing this issue was under Federalist #30:  "Concerning the General Power of Taxation"

The following statement was made by Hamilton in defense of taxes (something that you are vehemently opposed to, except to support a very limited number of things):

"How is it possible that a government half supplied and always necessitous, can fulfill the purposes of its institution, can provide for the security, advance the prosperity, or support the reputation of the commonwealth? How can it ever possess either energy or stability, dignity or credit, confidence at home or respectability abroad? How can its administration be any thing else than a succession of expedients temporizing, impotent, disgraceful? How will it be able to avoid a frequent sacrifice of its engagements to immediate necessity? How can it undertake or execute any liberal or enlarged plans of public good?"

Now it's debatable what a "liberal or enlarged plan of public good" is, but I found nothing in the Federalist Papers saying welfare couldn't fall into this category.

Can you provide evidence to the contrary?  I can't.  :stoned: 


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Re: A few "welfare" myths [Re: Cornholio]
    #1749408 - 07/25/03 08:21 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

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Can you provide evidence to the contrary?  I can't.  :stoned: 




Crack out your nachos and DVDs.  You're in for a long wait. 

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Re: A few "welfare" myths [Re: EchoVortex]
    #1749428 - 07/25/03 08:30 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

:grin: 


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Re: A few "welfare" myths [Re: Cornholio]
    #1751160 - 07/26/03 05:08 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

I'll find it but kudos for taking the time to look.

You read all those federalist papers? Didn't take you very long as there are dozens.

Pretty dry reading aren't they?

Keep in mind while I'm looking.... there was no welfare in the days it was written. Unless the writers had future sight, they couldn't have used the word welfare in the manner you'd like. Could they?


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Re: A few "welfare" myths [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #1751244 - 07/26/03 05:51 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

i was about to say that.

and it's not as though they couldn't concieve the idea of welfare... as though it was some future technology yet to be invented.

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Re: A few "welfare" myths [Re: ]
    #1751465 - 07/26/03 07:52 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

I always thought that welfare was basically needed because of the great depression... you know, when capitalism FAILED.

correct me if I'm wrong.

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Re: A few "welfare" myths [Re: carbonhoots]
    #1752084 - 07/26/03 11:59 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

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It relegates a portion of society to poverty. A great man once said..."workers have no bargaining power when there are crowds of unemployed willing to work for less, rather than have nothing" or something to that effect.




Bingo! That was exactly what I was trying to get across in a recent thread. I remain with open mind to hear a Capitalist apologist attempt a sincere address to this problem. So far stoicism or feigned obtuseness are all I've heard. If that's all they have, then maybe they should stop griping about "left-wing" alternatives.

btw, Who was the great man?

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Re: A few "welfare" myths [Re: shakta]
    #1752325 - 07/27/03 02:21 AM (20 years, 7 months ago)

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Well, you just made the case for welfare reform. That is what everyone, besides most liberals wants. It should be a second chance, not a life long meal ticket.




I'm with you, I'm for reform, and I think there's a big need for it. But actually, a lot of posters here have spoken out against any type of government welfare, and they might say that the idea for reform is liberal.

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Re: A few "welfare" myths [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #1752700 - 07/27/03 09:47 AM (20 years, 7 months ago)

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Keep in mind while I'm looking.... there was no welfare in the days it was written. Unless the writers had future sight, they couldn't have used the word welfare in the manner you'd like. Could they?



They used it in such a way that it could be interpreted to mean welfare as we know it today.


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Re: A few "welfare" myths [Re: silversoul7]
    #1752709 - 07/27/03 09:51 AM (20 years, 7 months ago)

i disagree.

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Re: A few "welfare" myths [Re: ]
    #1752889 - 07/27/03 12:04 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

No one who shares your disagreement has made an effective case in court.


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Re: A few "welfare" myths [Re: silversoul7]
    #1752986 - 07/27/03 12:40 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

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Keep in mind while I'm looking.... there was no welfare in the days it was written. Unless the writers had future sight, they couldn't have used the word welfare in the manner you'd like. Could they?



They used it in such a way that it could be interpreted to mean welfare as we know it today.



Bullshit.

It's used quite plainly and simply.

You can't use a word today, and imply it will mean something totally different 200 years from now. Do you really think, even for an instant, that when the constitution was written the founding fathers, who prided themselves on independence, who left a country and fought a war for independence, and wanted the most minimum government possible, were thinking "lets use the word welfare here so that in a couple hundred years the government can take from the rich and give to the poor?"

Get real.

Do you think the word "gay" 200 years ago was implying what it's come to mean today?


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Re: A few "welfare" myths [Re: silversoul7]
    #1752988 - 07/27/03 12:43 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

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silversoul7 said:
No one who shares your disagreement has made an effective case in court.



I'm not aware of anyone even trying.


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You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers

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Re: A few "welfare" myths [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #1753021 - 07/27/03 01:02 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

"lets use the word welfare here so that in a couple hundred years the government can take from the rich and give to the poor?"

That's your "interpretation" of what welfare is. Certainly got nothing to do with what welfare actually is.


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Re: A few "welfare" myths [Re: hongomon]
    #1753048 - 07/27/03 01:18 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

hongomon writes:

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It relegates a portion of society to poverty. A great man once said..."workers have no bargaining power when there are crowds of unemployed willing to work for less, rather than have nothing" or something to that effect.




Bingo! That was exactly what I was trying to get across in a recent thread. I remain with open mind to hear a Capitalist apologist attempt a sincere address to this problem. So far stoicism or feigned obtuseness are all I've heard. If that's all they have, then maybe they should stop griping about "left-wing" alternatives.


Ah. You certainly are enamored of the phrase "feigned obtuseness", aren't you?

Is it not obtuse to presume that simply because there is more than one human on the planet, NO human has the right to live his life as he chooses? No one has ever been able to defend that premise logically, and no one ever will.

I don't often quote "great men", but since some here seem to set great store in quotes from un-named "great men" (appeal to anonymous authority), I guess no one will object if I do the same --

"Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all."

and

"Do not hide behind such superficialities as whether you should or should not give a dime to a beggar. That is not the issue. The issue is whether you DO or do NOT have the right to exist WITHOUT giving him that dime."

Should I hold a contest to see who can guess the authors of the above statements?

As for workers having no bargaining power if there are crowds of workers willing to work for less, that is untrue. If this were really the case, no non-unionized company would ever pay their employees more than either minimum wage or union scale. In reality there are thousands of companies who routinely pay more. I know this is the case because I have worked for several myself.

Hongomon, your position seems to be that it is wrong for companies to offer employment to people on terms they would willingly (in many countries, even GLEEFULLY) accept -- such companies should offer employment only if they will do so under terms that "left-wingers" from the wealthiest country on the planet would accept. If they can't do so, it is better for them not to offer employment at all. Excuse me if I find this position a textbook example of "feigned obtuseness".

What is "stoic" about either accepting an offer of employment or rejecting it? What is "obtuse" about offering employment at the rate one is willing to pay?

As I have said in the past, you use words differently than most people do. Sometimes I really wish I had a secret "Libbie-speak" decoder ring.

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Re: A few "welfare" myths [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #1753065 - 07/27/03 01:29 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

The founding fathers worded the Constitution vaguely enough so that it could be reinterpreted with the changing times. Remember also when you talk about the right to keep and bear arms that back then "arms" meant rifles and muskets, not Uzis and M-16's.


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