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Old 09-02-2005, 10:30 PM   #44 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Oddly we didn't have this problem BEFORE welfare. You see welfare as a bribe apparently.
Of course we didn't. Then again, before welfare we had bonded labour, slavery, a lower class who believed that God Himself had relegated them to their fate, and an upper class who killed peasantry at will.

So while we're comparing completely nonsensical situations, let's go back to not using cars, since before we had cars, we didn't have AIDS. We shall cure AIDS by completely ceasing the use of any automotive method of transportation.

People have already responded to UsTwo's inaccurate allegations against welfare, so I'll just add: not only is capitalism the cause of the permanent underclass, welfare is one of the few things actually helping to slow the increasingly large divide between rich and poor.
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