Quote:
Originally posted by Jimmy4
This is why most conservatives are against welfare.
I'm very conservative, but I wouldn't mind taking the money in welfare and putting it all into a national health care program. That way it's put into something useful for everyone, not to some lazy ass who does nothing, is a poor parent, and keeps having kids. And I've seen a lot of those types here in Wisconsin, so don't say it never happens.
|
The argument against your underlying point isn't that there are no lazy people receiving welfare--it's that the amount of money they leech from the government is miniscule in relation to corporate leeches.
Since I suspect the average hard-working US citizen would be outraged if they knew the extent of where our public money actually gets squandered, the conservative party doesn't address those types of issues in public forums. Instead, they redirect the popular anger at an unpopular group--the poor--through a series of ideologies and institutions that perpetuate the cultural belief that poor people are in their social position due to a moral deficiency, that they have a worse work ethic than "us", and that they don't deserve or even desire better opportunities and commodities.