Corporate welfare should be designed to protect fledgling industries getting on their feet, willing to take that brave step into the free market when they're good and healthy.
Social welfare should be a safety net that is designed to help the willing and able get themselves through a difficult time and quickly back into the work force with little fuss.
Corporate welfare actually helps the bloated monopolies with the greatest capacity to fund political campaigns. It helps "farmers" who are really industrialists and entirely contradicts any political rhetoric about the free market.
Social welfare actually helps those who self-identify as welfare recipients. To use the system is to know the system and the system is so unnecessarily complicated, that knowing the system becomes a lifelong occupation. Meanwhile good folks in a bad patch are veritable rubes in the "welfare game" and will be spun around for months by underpaid and underqualified bureaucrats whilst achieving very little.
Last edited by Macheath; 07-27-2003 at 11:18 PM..
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