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...

I bet you would have gotten a job in a warehouse or a car wash and paid your own way thorough, with HARD WORK, not FREE MONEY.

Oh, that's true too. But what if there aren't any jobs out there? You know, major recession and all that? And if all the unemployed are on the verge of dropping dead from hunger, wouldn't they have all tied up the grunt work already? There's only so much to go around.

Welfare is called a "social safety net" for a reason. If it wasn't there we might end up with people earning $1 an hour out of pure desperation, particularly since capitalism is a race to the bottom. Hey, the guy's desperate, we're doing him a favour!

Somehow that sort of degradation is a bit repulsive to me. It would also horribly skew our markets.