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Originally Posted by dogzilla
There's days that I would like to quit my job and just let the government support me, but I mostly like my job have too much self respect to take government handouts. Besides which, that won't work too well when the majority of the people in the US get fed up with government taxation and mandates and decide to let the government support them.
I'd much rather see an end put to the concept that the government has to solve everyone's personal problems by imposing mandates like this and a return to people accepting responsibility for their actions.
On the other hand, I'll be retired sometime in the next 10 years. Maybe I should just relax, enjoy all the free stuff the government is going to give me and let some other poor sap pay the bills.
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The thing is, dogzilla, you've just explained part of the reason why this concept of masses of people freeloading off the government is so ludicrous: it's simply not in our nature. People don't
like having nothing to do. In fact, people who don't have jobs to do are much more likely to become depressed. There's also the fact that the government doesn't just give out money indefinitely and without requirements. Unless it's something like disability, there are limits to how long you can receive benefits, and requirements you must fulfill in order to keep receiving those benefits. Finally, on the subject of personal responsibility, government is not concerned with individuals but with society. Take unemployment benefits, for example: they are quite clearly an economic benefit to society. They help minimize the effect an individuals unemployment has on the other parts of society that individual interacts with. They also help keep that individual afloat long enough for them to find another job and reenter society. Do unemployment benefits harm the concept of personal responsibility? Maybe a little bit. But you know what? It doesn't matter, because governments are concerned with the whole, not the parts.