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Originally Posted by kutulu
It's that kind of selfish attitude that has gotten us to where we are today. People act as if they got to where they are in a vacuum entirely due to their own choices and hard work. Those that have less just didn't work hard enough. It's BS.
We can't expect people to live an honest hardworking life if that life doesn't even pay for basic necessities.
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I call shenanigans on your claim. I've never heard of a single person being held back because of anything other than their own personal choices. Many of the 4000 kids I went to high school with decided education wasn't for them and partied their way through high school. You want to know where most of them are now? They're working dead end jobs and are utterly miserable with very little. On the other hand, a good buddy's parents are both immigrants and work multiple jobs to keep themselves afloat. He decided to work hard, got good grades, stood out as a tight end, and now has multiple full-ride offers from a handful of prestigious schools like Columbia and Yale.
The real problem is that we've created a nanny state of sorts and instead of creating government programs that help people find work and work for what they need, we instead have created welfare programs that simply give people money for being deadbeats and give them no incentive to better themselves and make a contribution to society. We can't expect people to be honest because as long as people can find a way to do nothing and get some kind of benefits for it, they aren't going to be hard-working and honest.
As for healthcare, medicare and medicaid are quite enough, placing everybody on a government-run system is just asking for problems.