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From: mjc@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA (Monica Cellio)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Welfare
Message-ID: <238@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 19:11:39 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 14 19:11:39 1985
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From: tamir@ucbvax.ARPA (Yuval Tamir)
>This is the real issue in the discussion about SS --
>whether or not to abolish all types of welfare. [...]
>The SS system should be viewed as part of
>the larger welfare system. If you really want to abolish
>help from the state to people who cannot/won't help
>themselves, you have to abolish the entire welfare system at once.

I have no objection to helping those who truly cannot support themselves, but
in this age those people are amazingly rare.  People who have certain
handicaps can now get jobs when they couldn't before, though of course there
are some physical handicaps that are so severe that the victims really can't
support themselves.  

In the current system, people aren't really forced to work.  They can stay on
welfare instead, when there really are jobs available.  No, I'm not being 
simplistic; unemployment is a problem.  But people aren't even forced to try
any more... they can probably get minimum jobs at Micky D's, and if they
aren't qualified for anything else that is available, they should be forced
to take that job before collecting welfare.

What I really object to is the hordes of obviously healthy people living in
areas where jobs are available who are collecting welfare.

Let each man provide for himself and make handouts difficult to get.

							-Dragon
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