Re: OT: Welfare does work...

On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 00:54:00 -0500, "Jon Slaughter"
<Jon_Slaughter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Does this argument make sense? (cause a friend of mine seems not to think
so)

The fact that kids who's parents that "live" on welfare also end up "living"
on welfare verses the kids who's parents do not live on welfare prove that
welfare does not work in getting people off welfare.

Hence welfare does not work unless the goal is to keep them on welfare. So
in fact the best way to make people successful is not to put them on
welfare.

This argument seems perfectly logical... anyone think it's not? Back up by
logical proof and facts.



Your friend's 'argument' is really just an assertion that children end
up on welfare because of their parents being on welfare, and thus that
welfare doesn't work. While it seems like common sense, we all know
that common sense is often wrong.

I assert (without evidence) that the US welfare system does work in
many cases, where 'work' means helping young mothers care for their
young, helping people in low-job, high crime neighborhoods avoid a
criminal lifestyle, etc. Prove me wrong. Please cite statistics...
anecdotal evidence isn't very convincing.

Oh, and while you are at it, you might outline your (friend's)
alternative to the current system that (hopefully) does not include
slave labor, debtors prisons, food riots, or starving people to death.

Regards,
Bob Monsen
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