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To: epicure who wrote (245510)	2/24/2014 11:53:12 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542043

Besides, thanks to robots and software, more and more Americans are going to be in unemployment lines. We've already got a healthy group of beggars here. We need to make the safety net stronger, not weaker. Here's an entrepreneurial Republican begger:

To: epicure who wrote (245510)	2/25/2014 8:39:23 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542043

We'll just have to disagree about it. In any event if we can't do away with welfare because of political impasse then I wish we could address, have a political debate among the parties, about a way to make welfare kids successful and break the dependency cycle. Pre 1950 we didn't have welfare women women begging. One because there were so few unmarried mother's (relatively speaking in terms of percentages), and two, their families took them in--unlike today where they, the families, see it as the government's job.