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If libertarians/conservatives believe govt welfare leads to dependency
    #3454022 - 12/06/04 10:26 AM (19 years, 3 months ago)

shouldn't they be principally opposed to most forms of charity?


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Re: If libertarians/conservatives believe govt welfare leads to dependency [Re: Tao]
    #3454129 - 12/06/04 10:49 AM (19 years, 3 months ago)

Personally, I believe that welfare type programs should be left to the states, communities, churches, and the like. The US federal government has no right, legally or otherwise, to play Robin Hood and take my hard earned money and give it to some lazy slob that would rather have babies than work for a living. The entire concept of welfare is flawed.

I do realize that life deals people a rotten hand from time to time. It is these cases that I like to see the local communities, churches, and businesses offer a helping hand. The places that help out should get some kind of tax break from the Fed as an incentive/reward for their actions. (I also don't think churchs should be tax exempt just because they are a church, but that is another thread...)

So no, I am not opposed to most forms of charity... I am only really opposed to government charity backed by tax dollars.


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Re: If libertarians/conservatives believe govt welfare leads to dependency [Re: Seuss]
    #3454151 - 12/06/04 10:54 AM (19 years, 3 months ago)

It is these cases that I like to see the local communities, churches, and businesses offer a helping hand.

We had this system for a hundred years before welfare. It didn't work. The suffering people went through was incredible. That's why welfare was introduced.

Read Dickens for an insight into what kind of society was produced pre-welfare.


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Re: If libertarians/conservatives believe govt welfare leads to dependency [Re: Xlea321]
    #3454236 - 12/06/04 11:13 AM (19 years, 3 months ago)

> We had this system for a hundred years before welfare. It didn't work.

... and our current method of taking from those with money and giving to those without is a steller example of a working welfare system?

> The suffering people went through was incredible. That's why welfare was introduced.

I always thought the current welfare system was started to help the nation through the great depression and had little to do with actual people or suffering.

> Read Dickens for an insight into what kind of society was produced pre-welfare.

Read George Orwell for an insight into what kind of society was produced post-welfare.


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Re: If libertarians/conservatives believe govt welfare leads to dependency [Re: Tao]
    #3454241 - 12/06/04 11:15 AM (19 years, 3 months ago)


shouldn't they be principally opposed to most forms of charity?

People choose of their own free will to give to charities. People have no choice when it comes to paying taxes. In my opinion, people should be able to do whatever they want with their own money(if that means giving it all away...then fine), but people should not have a large part of their income taken away by force to support a behemoth of a government.

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Re: If libertarians/conservatives believe govt welfare leads to dependency [Re: Seuss]
    #3454275 - 12/06/04 11:21 AM (19 years, 3 months ago)

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Seuss said:
Personally, I believe that welfare type programs should be left to the states, communities, churches, and the like.  The US federal government has no right, legally or otherwise, to play Robin Hood and take my hard earned money and give it to some lazy slob that would rather have babies than work for a living.  The entire concept of welfare is flawed.

I do realize that life deals people a rotten hand from time to time. It is these cases that I like to see the local communities, churches, and businesses offer a helping hand.  The places that help out should get some kind of tax break from the Fed as an incentive/reward for their actions.  (I also don't think churchs should be tax exempt just because they are a church, but that is another thread...)

So no, I am not opposed to most forms of charity... I am only really opposed to government charity backed by tax dollars.




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Re: If libertarians/conservatives believe govt welfare leads to dependency [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #3454291 - 12/06/04 11:24 AM (19 years, 3 months ago)

yes, thats the argument based on principle. im referring to the practical argument that many if not most conservatives make--that handouts lead to dependency.


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Re: If libertarians/conservatives believe govt welfare leads to dependency [Re: Xlea321]
    #3454319 - 12/06/04 11:27 AM (19 years, 3 months ago)


Read Dickens for an insight into what kind of society was produced pre-welfare.

I think that the hardship that Dickens detailed was more because of the upheaval of the Industrial Revolution. You had an entire society(and world) that used to be agricultural in nature and was all of a sudden being more focused on manufacturing and industrial production. As technology improved and production improved, the overall standard of living increased. People used to live out in shacks in the woods. Now even poor people in industrialized nations have roofs over their heads, food in their stomachs, and televisions sets to watch. That painful transition from low-tech society to high-tech society isn't without trial.

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Re: If libertarians/conservatives believe govt welfare leads to dependency [Re: Tao]
    #3454351 - 12/06/04 11:32 AM (19 years, 3 months ago)


that handouts lead to dependency.

That definately can and does happen(I have first hand experience in seeing it happen). Some people are deserving of help, i.e. they are down on their luck and are striving to become self-sufficient. Others are just plain scumbags who suck every away every penny they can and try to work as little as possible.

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Re: If libertarians/conservatives believe govt welfare leads to dependency [Re: Tao]
    #3454447 - 12/06/04 11:48 AM (19 years, 3 months ago)

I can't speak for all libertarians or conservatives, but my basis for opposing welfare is not related to dependency. It is based on the fact that it is money taken by force and redistributed to others who have done nothing to earn it. I'm all for any voluntary actions which don't harm others. Also, I'd like to point out that charity generally operates as a sort of relief fund for emergency situations. It does not tend to lead to the culture of dependency that welfare has produced. You read my thread about the Grameen Bank. This is the kind of "charity" I'd like to see become more common. Rather than giving handouts, it instead helps people help themselves. The problem for poor people trying to start up a business is that they can't get a loan to get started. If we have more microcredit agencies like teh Grameen Bank, we could help solve this injustice.


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Re: If libertarians/conservatives believe govt welfare leads to dependency [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #3454545 - 12/06/04 12:12 PM (19 years, 3 months ago)

> but people should not have a large part of their income taken away by force to support a behemoth of a government

I don't mind the government taking a large chunk of my income, but I wan't equal representation of my money... in other words, I want it going towards stuff that benefits everybody, not just lazy people that don't feel like working.


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Re: If libertarians/conservatives believe govt welfare leads to dependency [Re: Tao]
    #3454642 - 12/06/04 12:31 PM (19 years, 3 months ago)

In the course of writing my term paper for Sociology of Religion, I came across a theory that is possibly the best argument in favor of welfare that I've ever heard. My paper was on the paths of religious development that the United States has taken on the one hand, and that Europe has taken on the other. In other words, I was trying to find why Europe has become more secular while the US has become more religous, and one theory proposes that it has to do with the welfare state. It basically says that in the absense of government welfare, churches tend to provide for the poor instead, and that with the rise of the welfare state, those churches become increasingly irrelevant in society. Basically, this theory says that Americans are more religious because of the important role religion continues to play in helping the needy, whereas in Europe, the government has completely taken over that job, and thus made religion obsolete. Of course, in its place, we see a sort of state religion which worships the Nanny State?, which I find about equally appalling.


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Re: If libertarians/conservatives believe govt welfare leads to dependency [Re: Tao]
    #3454720 - 12/06/04 12:50 PM (19 years, 3 months ago)

I don't know what welfare leads to, but I can definitely say that LACK of welfare leads to an increase in crime.

A lot of idealistic conservatives don't tend to face the grim meathook reality of the fact that if poor people are allowed to be poor, eventually they will start robbing and murdering rich people. Its as simple as that.

So: you don't think that the state has a moral right to take from the rich and give to the poor? Fine. I hope you like dodging bullets.

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Re: If libertarians/conservatives believe govt welfare leads to dependency [Re: DoctorJ]
    #3454731 - 12/06/04 12:52 PM (19 years, 3 months ago)

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I don't know what welfare leads to, but I can definitely say that LACK of welfare leads to an increase in crime.



If we're talking about all forms of welfare, I agree. But just be aware that government welfare isn't the only kind.


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Re: If libertarians/conservatives believe govt welfare leads to dependency [Re: DoctorJ]
    #3455106 - 12/06/04 02:37 PM (19 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

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I don't know what welfare leads to, but I can definitely say that LACK of welfare leads to an increase in crime.

A lot of idealistic conservatives don't tend to face the grim meathook reality of the fact that if poor people are allowed to be poor, eventually they will start robbing and murdering rich people. Its as simple as that.

So: you don't think that the state has a moral right to take from the rich and give to the poor? Fine. I hope you like dodging bullets.




theres also the issue that welfare establishes a true minimum wage..since no employer can pay less per month or per year than welfare..unlike the hourly minimum wage that still allows them to reduce hours...


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Re: If libertarians/conservatives believe govt welfare leads to dependency [Re: DoctorJ]
    #3455262 - 12/06/04 03:13 PM (19 years, 3 months ago)


So: you don't think that the state has a moral right to take from the rich and give to the poor? Fine. I hope you like dodging bullets.

It's more cost effective to pay for police and prisons.

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Re: If libertarians/conservatives believe govt welfare leads to dependency [Re: Tao]
    #3455863 - 12/06/04 05:00 PM (19 years, 3 months ago)

Tao,

I talked to a conservative uncle about this one time.
Yeah, he believed that government welfare leads to dependency. But he did give a bit of money to various charity (a lot of it was for environmental conservation, but I assume that's not what we're talking about). He would give money for inner city youth programs and money towards getting better computers and supplies for struggling schools, etc. I think that by doing that, he felt he was helping out, but not causing any direct kind of dependency.


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Re: If libertarians/conservatives believe govt welfare leads to dependency [Re: Gijith]
    #3455922 - 12/06/04 05:13 PM (19 years, 3 months ago)

The dependancy comes about when the recipient believes that he is entitled to the assistance. If he realizes that it comes from the freely given good wishes of others who see him as temporarily down but willing to get himself back up if he can, then he will try to get himself back up. If not he will just keep sitting around bitching about how little he is getting and why we should give him more.


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Re: If libertarians/conservatives believe govt welfare leads to dependency [Re: silversoul7]
    #3456040 - 12/06/04 05:31 PM (19 years, 3 months ago)

To think abolishing welfare will allow for charities to help out the poor is ludicris. It doesn't happen. Sure a church may set up a soup kitchen or homeless shelter but they don't exactly do much more. Sure, there is all sorts of wonderful little stories about charities but this hardly accounts for the poor of this country. If you abolish welfare your ass is gettin' robbed, period. I point to some graf half a block away from my place: "Eat The Rich!" Welfare should be left up to the states as to allow innovation of this tricky problem. Texas can abolish the whole thing and become a sunny day in Bahgdad for all I care. Welfare should be designed to set up employment (in gov construction works etc. instead of giving these jobs to landowner's/politician's buddies as here in LA) Not to give handouts. The problem is the way our welfare system is set up, not welfare itself.

You don't like getting money taken from you? How is it more cost effective to hire bodyguards so your children don't get kidnapped(like in mexico) or living 10 miles away from any neighbors. Welfare is a public service that serves everybody just like the road you drive on.


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Re: If libertarians/conservatives believe govt welfare leads to dependency [Re: DirtMcgirt]
    #3456128 - 12/06/04 05:47 PM (19 years, 3 months ago)

Churches and religious orders provided social services for centuries before state welfare existed. Several Catholic monastic orders were founded solely on the basis of serving the poor. Religion has historically thrived on assistance to the poor, which may explain why poor people generally tend to be more religious. Your assertion that abolishing welfare would result in me getting robbed is based in ignorance. Welfare IS robbery, albeit state-sanctioned robbery. Fact is that there are several countries much poorer than the US which also have much lower crime rates.


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