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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (17085)	4/18/2000 2:59:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

I think reviewing welfare policy is a wonderful idea, but I think the underlying assumptions of welfare are somewhat less soft-hearted than you seem to believe. There will always, in a free-enterprise society, be a certain number of dysfunctional individuals who are unable to support themselves. If people have the freedom to succeed or fail, some will fail. What to do with these people is an equally eternal problem. So far we've found that the cheapest and least disturbing way to deal with them, over the long term, is to dole them enough scraps to keep them generally passive, and to make the process of getting the dole miserable and humiliating enough that very few people will do it simply out of laziness. Such a system is bound to be abused to some degree, and review and fine-tuning is always a good idea, but I've heard no better proposal. to enforce a work requirement on the able That sounds positively Soviet. Remember how they always had zero unemployment? What are you going to do to employ people with no employable skills? If the private sector wanted them they wouldn't be unemployed to begin with. Are you going to force the private sector to take them in, or have the Government provide some kind of make-work job? Neither solution sounds very conservative. Reviewing educational policy is a good idea, but I think the priority should be trying to restore quality training in core subjects, not on trying to deal with drugs and sex. I can't imagine anything Government could possibly do that would be very effective in that regard. I've never read any of Olasky's work; when he discussed the rise of licentiousness in the '60's, did he discuss the possibility that the conduct of the war in Vietnam, and the racial attitudes of their elders, might have led to a general feeling among the young that their elders had lost all moral authority?