RE: If Americans Are Stupid Enough To Fall For This - They Deserve Whatever They Get.
April 4, 2014 at 4:31 pm
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2014 at 4:55 pm by Heywood.)
(April 4, 2014 at 1:26 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(April 4, 2014 at 11:21 am)Heywood Wrote: You think if we gave poor people money they wouldn't use it to buy food? I am all for public assistance....in the form of money. I am against restricting people's freedom just because they are poor.
Ah, yes, by all means - let's support the people's right to spend public assistance funds on booze, cocaine, and heroin.
So instead you wish to punish all the poor people by limiting their freedom just to prevent a few poor people from spending public funds irresponsibly?
Further the bureaucracy required by these programs is itself an unnecessary waste of public funds.
Further still, alcoholics and drug abusers will find ways to convert those public funds to booze, cocaine, and heroin anyways.....usually at a big losses.
So how bout this instead. Give poor people money because most will spend it more efficiently and because public assistance cost a lot to administer and it doesn't stop people from using public assistance funds irresponsibly if that is what they really want to do.
