"Dan Abel" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> "Gill Smith" > wrote:
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>> That's what annoys me about the welfare state: wholesale encouragement
>> of fecklessness.
>
> Welfare is a safety net. It is not designed to encourage people to be
> deadbeats. A lot of people have spent a lot of time and energy trying
> to figure out ways to make it strictly a safety net. It cannot be done,
> without spending more money than it would cost just to hand it out to
> everyone who meets certain qualifications. In addition, in California,
> where I live, almost all "welfare" is AFDC (Aid to Families with
> Dependent Children). In other words, you can only get "welfare" for the
> children. Obviously, they give the money to the parent(s), since
> children are not competent to manage the money. Whether it actually
> gets used only for the children is impossible to determine. There is
> some "welfare" for adults, like food stamps. I believe that there are
> other programs designed to make adults more employable.

In the UK you can get a nice comfy cosy lifestyle out of welfare.

If the middle classes really new whta was going down, there'd be a
revolution.



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