RE: Welfare - are you for or against it and why?
February 21, 2011 at 6:42 pm
(This post was last modified: February 21, 2011 at 6:44 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
I support welfare, assuming there are protections against people living off of welfare.
It should be a social safety net that people want to get out of and not something people try to live in.
Just like homeless shelters.
One protection Indiana has that I think is (or at least should be common) that you are required, in order to continue recieving a unemployment check, to submit a minimum number of applications each week, which you report and verify to the local government office.
It should be a social safety net that people want to get out of and not something people try to live in.
Just like homeless shelters.
One protection Indiana has that I think is (or at least should be common) that you are required, in order to continue recieving a unemployment check, to submit a minimum number of applications each week, which you report and verify to the local government office.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
