Welfare

Welfare...
Is it a legitimate function of the government to take away the wealth that YOU created and hand it over to someone that's done nothing to earn it? Should those that achieve be punished by being forced to pay the way for those that didn't?

Discuss...

rob J. Smith of 40% of his salary at the eventual point of a gun, then they're right in doing so?

I hate to point out the obvious, but a) you're not doing it at the point of a gun, and b) if the government didn't do it, eventually you would be staring down that barrel. It wouldn't belong to the police, it'd belong to someone very poor and desperate.

here's no reason why people should be IN poverty in THIS country.

You're hopelessly naive. I was born into poverty, since my father ran off with another woman, the legal system screwed my mother, and nobody employs old women. Ageism, you know? She was one of the best at what she did, but that wasn't good enough.

In the end she went back to school, but by then she was 50. She then had a choice to either work all the time, or raise me. She chose to raise me, so we were butt poor, but I had a loving mother around me all the time. I think she made the right choice, even though I think she'll live a few years shorter because of it. She was nervous all the time, counting every dollar, and she's become a very bitter person about the whole affair.

Until society is fair, welfare keeps some semblance of order around. The legal system only works for the rich. Having studied law (thanks to the wonders of a social system, otherwise this would have been impossible for someone of my means), I really believe that the average person is shafted. People do fall through the cracks all the time, and this prevents the system from eating itself alive.

Because, if it wasn't there, that gun against your head might have belonged to me. Given the choice between feeding myself and putting a bullet in your brain, guess which I'll pick first?

Greedy fool.