| jason1637 said: There are many ways we can help those who are disabled, poor, and old without just giving them money. Maybe the disabled cold be an outlier if they're unable to do a lot of things by themselves. |
Maybe I just view it all differently because I often put my own life at risk to save others, thus I have compassion and empathy towards others.
| jason1637 said: For the elderly they should save whIle they're working for retirement and they have family to depend on. |
There is zero guarantees that anyone is going to have family to fall back/rely on. And why should they rely on family members? It's demeaning.
Some people I have cared for in the past who were elderly had zero family due to various circumstances.
I.E. They migrated over here.
I.E. Their family members passed away.
I.E. They were adopted/forced out of home and have no record of prior family. (Like Australia's "Stolen generation".)
Your approach is far to cold and leaves far to many people potentially vulnerable... And in my opinion is entirely unacceptable.
| jason1637 said: But for the poor the government can always invest more in poorer communities and fixing the criminal justice system. |
Why can't they do that anyway? Isn't the USA supposed to be the supreme example of a modern, highly developed, successful nation? Yet it tends to falter on various statistics.
| jason1637 said: The disabled is more tricky since there are a ton of disabilites. But there are already anti discrimination laws for the disabled. |
And so there should.
| jason1637 said: Also society does not always equal government. There are charitable organizations. |
Charitable organizations don't always have financial guarantees. Often they will run out of cash, food, clothing and shelter.
The ironic part about it all is... Welfare can actually increase economic activity, for example there was a business here that had the majority of it's revenue from welfare recipients... Certainly did more than just handing out billions more to the rich that sits in a bank account doing nothing somewhere. (Or going overseas for various schemes.)
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