RE: Why don't conservatives see that welfare programs are good for society as a whole?
January 5, 2012 at 8:27 pm
My beef isn't with the welfare system per se, but with its execution. There are too many stories of corruption, or welfare cheats and "queens" who live off this money for many years without trying to find work. Welfare should be a system to help out the less fortunate, not the bone idle. Nor should it be a system where people see being poor as a good thing, since they can milk the system for more money by changing their circumstances.
The problem as I see it is that the government isn't properly accountable. It spends and spends and spends, wasting money and not caring about where it goes, because at the end of the day, it's going to be someone else's problem in a few years. This is why I advocate shifting the system over to private charity, funded by donations (and possibly also government grants) but handled by people who are actually accountable to someone (their supporters).
The problem as I see it is that the government isn't properly accountable. It spends and spends and spends, wasting money and not caring about where it goes, because at the end of the day, it's going to be someone else's problem in a few years. This is why I advocate shifting the system over to private charity, funded by donations (and possibly also government grants) but handled by people who are actually accountable to someone (their supporters).
