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Originally posted by wonderwench
The more we must resort to regulations, the more dishonest people find or design loopholes.
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That's not surprising, given the ambiguous language of some of the acts of Congress I've read. Sometimes they sound as if they're not really legislating anything. That could also be a big part of the problem of "judicial legislation" in that judges find themselves in the position of interpreting vague laws - often contrary to the original intention of a bill's authors.
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Originally posted by wonderwench
There is a correlation between expanding voting rights to people who feel no vested interest in society other that what they are able to take from others and the decline of civilization.
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I certainly agree with that as well. I think that has more to do with an individual's upbringing than with the availability of government aid programs
per se though. My mother was on welfare briefly when my sister and I were toddlers, but neither of us would ever dream of living on the public dole unless we fell on dire circumstances and needed it temporarily while we got back on our feet. That's simply not the way we were raised.