(June 26, 2014 at 10:15 am)vorlon13 Wrote: As a 12 Stepper for 28 years, I'd have a problem with the government specifically paying people to stay home and drug themselves all day.
Curiously, I'm pretty liberal about assisted suicide . . .
I do too....but I have an even bigger problem with the government telling people how they must spend the wealth transferred to them. Why should a single mom be forced to by food with her food stamps when she needs diapers? Suppose the mom is an efficient shopper....A coupon clipper who can buy a whole cart of groceries for $20 bucks, the government forcing her to buy food with food stamps instead of say a college text book is ridiculous.
A common mentality among liberals and conservatives is that poor people are just too stupid to make good monetary decisions....thus they need the government to do it for them. I reject that notion.