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Originally Posted by ratbastid
Well, and the "beast" in this case is the social safety net. What this doctrine is trying to cut away is social spending--programs designed to impact the quality of people's lives. Little things like welfare and medicare. Fundamentally, the right believes that people should only have their lives bettered if they have the opportunity for that provided them by the marketplace, and then do good, honest, moral work to earn it.
IMO it was the right way to think when we were 13 little states on the edge of a vast, unexploited continent, but it doesn't address today's economic realities. Most of the people who are recipients of federal social program dollars have no way out of their situations on their own. See pre-Katrina New Orleans for a fine example of that.
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I know a person who never saved a dime during their working years and now is only receiving social security, and medicare. This person is truely in poverty and is totally controlled by government. A better plan for them woild have been a private of social security account. If they would have had a private account over 50 years of working a contributing to a private plan rather than to social security, they would have a nice large nest egg, somthing to leave to their children. They would have gained real wealth and had real control over their life in retirement.
Welfare programs are designed to control people. These programs promoted by rich evil democrats like Edward Kennedy and John Kerry so they keep their billions and make to make sure everyone else stays poor. They keep special loop-holes in the tax code so they avoid taxes, want high tax rates so upwardly mobil people don't get rich and so that poor people stay poor and controlled. Now thats the real truth.
