mesoteto on 25 March 2009
| jv103 said: I don't believe in "rights." So I don't think people have a right to anything. I thought it was quite funny that you did, and continue to, use anecdotes as evidence. That's why its funny. I realize that people abuse welfare. Just like people abuse anything that is given, or at times, earned. While, I do believe that poverty becomes facilitated and lengthened by welfare, it is in the state's interest to keep its population healthy. It has nothing to do with 'rights.' I think California has a problem with welfare, because California accounts for 34% of the Welfare in the United States (Welfare limits should be enforced). I don't disagree with your logic. I checked out Health and Human Services .gov in fiscal 2008 about 4.0 million per month people received some welfare benefits. According to the website, 3.0 million of the 4.0 million receiving benefits were children. Interesting, I wonder how they classify the money as going to the children when it has to go through the parents? |
That’s not true, every one has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
The problem is b/c of how society is brain washing us everyone thinks in a “me” mentality that means your only have rights as long as they don’t effect me and I should get everything I feel I am entitled to regardless if you get it and doubly regardless if I have earned it
And what compounds the probem is that good people that want to help are doing it the wrong way, instead of a hand out it really needs to become a hand up
