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Quote by: Osborn F Enready I think if there is a safety net of any kind, the government shouldn't handle or have access to the money. I also think it HAS to be voluntary, or its extortion, no matter how pretty we dress up the cause with fluff and benevolent intentions. |
In principle I am behind you 100%. In reality, however, a society based on greed and excess can't be counted on to assist fellow citizens in hard times. If such a social structure already existed the government wouldn't need to create it, as bad as it is now.
It's like seeing a homeless vet on the side of the road with the "will work for food" sign written on a scrap of cardboard. WE as a society screwed him by sending him into a political war, we screwed him by cutting benefits and we screwed him by not having a job available for him when he came back. This would tell ANY reasonable observer that this society uses people as tools and when we are done with them we throw them away like garbage.
Would YOU trust that society to take care of its own voluntarily?