HappySqurriel said:
People voting to preserve or expand social welfare programs that they have been dependent on for a long period of time is a sign of an abysmal social welfare system. |
There's a huge difference between canadian and european welfare and what latin americans have got used to. It's a whole other mentality, a different way of looking at the welfare question and that's where I think you are mistaken right there . I live in southern Brazil, the most developed region of the country, but I do know enough of the mentality of those dependent on government-led social politics on a third-world country to tell you that's not the case - or better yet, it's made not to. Most feel entitled to have the government sustaining them and deliberately will not act in a way to get over their situation as to keep being sustained.
Of course I'm not trying to say mexican immigrants are all a bunch of lazy good-for-nothings; they get the worse jobs and the worse payments and it's hard to be satisfied by that. Just that's what the populist politics the USA has been following since the Reagan days is making it out to be. A machine designed to keep an ever increasing percent of the population dependent and government help and easily manipulated to vote towards one candidate or another by the simple promise of keeping and/or increasing the welfare state.
Anyways, we are getting off-topic here and if you are willing to continue this conversation then inbox me.
