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...

Not. If that was all, they'd have put some reforms in.

The government doesn't care what poor people do, as long as they don't get in the way. The game of politics considers them numbers on a sideline, and little else.