Corporate welfare is stupid. It is capitalism, the company makes it on its own steam, or it doesn't. Why give them money?
Individual welfare is fine. The life of an unemployed single mom sucks. It is worse on her kids. If she doesn't get her free money, her kids are screwed and they did nothing wrong. Sure it isn't all spent wisely but it helps a lot of people. Helping some at the cost of wasting money on those who could otherwise help themselves is a small price to pay. What happens is the lazy guy lives off welfare until he dies, likely childless due to laziness and lack of appeal to women. The harder working but poor and unlucky unemployed guy lives off welfare for a while, maybe gets lucky one day and gets a job. Once he has a job, women will consider him for relationships and eventually they could become a low income family. He gets his kid the best education possible and the hard working kid becomes successful. This type of thing happens all the time. That is why welfare needs to stay.
The social net to help immigrants is also important. Immigrants contribute a lot to Canada (seeing how they are the only thing preventing negative population growth and total economic collapse). My parents were immigrants. When they first came to Canada, their families got their free money to help them out because they didn't speak English and therefore couldn't get work. As time passed, members of the families got jobs and others got educations then jobs. Now they pay lots of tax. I'm sure the money the government gets off of everyone it once supported in the two families is MUCH MUCH more than they payed out.
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