Al, how do you manage to relate social security, a program for seniors, to depravity or moral decline. I even struggle to make that connection with minimum wage legislation.
I guess it's all about welfare then. Social Security has become welfare for the elderly, financed on the backs of younger generations. Minimum wage has become welfare for the working poor, financed on the backs of the employers.
Welfare? Well, I guess you could make a case that it operates in dysfunctional segments of society...but that discounts the fact that folks run into hard times now and then...is there abuse? no question...but what do you do? Ignore the real needs cause you it's hard to deal with abuse
It's not just the abuse of the system. It's how the system itself becomes the end-all-be-all solution to any of society's problems. Society not caring enough for the working poor? No problem, just increase government assistance programs. Too many low-wage workers getting exploited by employers? No problem, just raise the minimum wage. Not enough children taking care of parents? No problem, just keep that Social Security Ponzi scheme going. Rich getting richer? No problem, just raise taxes on them. They're just a bunch of dishonest thugs anyway.
See a pattern here? No one wants to be responsible for seniors. No one wants to be responsible for the working poor. No one trusts the rich to be charitable. All of this responsibility is offloaded onto the government. Now we can be selfish and greedy without guilt, because we trust that government will fill that role. And when government fails to do so, as it has been for the past several decades, the solution is to try and fix the system, not people.
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