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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (161742)	2/20/2003 3:03:39 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577112

>Ideally, you want the handouts to end when they're no longer needed by society. Realistically, you create a dependence on said handouts. >You could argue that liberal programs like Social Security can succeed if only given a second chance and more was done to keep it well-managed. But some will make the leap in logic and decide that the problems with Social Security are fundamental in nature and not implementation-specific. It comes down to whether you believe in the Great Society or in individual responsibilities. Well, it all depends... I'd like to have a bit of both. What I'd really like to see is to have the "poverty floor" raised in this country (and eventually in the world). Basically, I'd like to see people who are unemployed still have reasonably solid standards of living, but those who choose to work be able to be way above that. I have no problem with economic disparity, as long as the poorest aren't terribly poor. We've done a good job with that already over the last 75 years. Although we have a large poor population, almost no one ever really has to worry about true starvation, and people can survive on welfare. How great would it be if the unemployed still all had apartments or better but everyone with a college degree and a white-collar job had a mansion or better? There is precedent for this- I remember studying a few years ago in a Civilization class that there used to be a tribe in the Caribbean where people only had to work two weeks out of every year. -Z