| theprof00 said:
If welfare was to help people Republicans would have never been overwhelmingly for it. |
Because Republicans never create (misguided) social programs with the intention of helping people? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Part_D
The core problem with elected officials on both "sides" of the political spectrum is that, even if they're not corrupt, they believe the government has the capacity to fix problems in the economy and society. The end result is that both parties create policies and implement programs with the best of intentions but never consider the consequences and harm of their policies. Their belief that the government has to "do something" whenever a real or imagined crisis comes up is one of the reasons why the country is in such poor shape currently.
The problem with fixing the system is that most people are like you and they judge government programs based on their intentions not on their results. Subsidized housing and welfare have been fantastic at building drug filled ghettos that have extreme muder rates, and ensured muti-generational poverty by breaking down the family structure in poor (typically black) communities. You're unwilling to even question a program where its participants are more likely to die a violent death within your borders than your soldiers are in a warzone because the initial intention was to "help people".
