richardhutnik on 30 July 2010
I am leaning towards the belief the American welfare system is as useless as it is, because of both the belief of Liberals that fixing external conditions results in humans acting better, and the belief of conservatives that people are inheritantly lazy, and you need to show toughness to them to motivate people to work (take away benefits and people will be forced to work). The third path of assisting people to develop living skills, doesn't show up, so the system doesn't do this. You have a system that warehouses people a few years, and then throws them out.
