09-06-2015, 10:23 AM
(09-06-2015, 10:03 AM)jakefromstatefarm Wrote: Do you even know how these programs work? Are you aware that there are income requirements and limitations in order to qualify for these programs, and that the vast majority of social programs use sliding scales based on income level to determine how much you get?
These programs are great at doing one thing, keeping people dependent on them so they'll keep voting for a certain political party.
They don't solve anything. They don't encourage people to do more. Quite the opposite, in fact.
Yeah, but you care about people more than I do, simply because you encourage government to take more of someone's money and giving it to other people.
You haven't offered any hard evidence of this culture of dependency you allege. I read a Heritage Foundation study that alleged this same thing a while back, and to my utter non-surprise, it was completely fallacious in its methodology. You will need to prove this in some way other than simply describing the mechanics of social programs and essentially saying "See? That makes people dependent, because I don't see how it wouldn't".
