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Talullahhound
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Uncle Sam's plantation
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7/24/2009 9:12:02 AM
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You know, I thought this would be a serious article about the problems of the welfare system, but it just turned into a political rant.
I totally agree that the welfare systems put in place in the 1960's have only encouraged people to stay on welfare vice using it as a temporary means to tide one. It seems as though no matter what system is put in place, there are those that will find a way to exploit it. And there doesn't seem to be a means of putting any checks and balancing into it. Past generations, it would be considered shameful for anyone to be receiving public assistance, but as our society changed, welfare became seen as a right instead of temporary help.
I don't know that Obama is necessarily to blame for this. We've had a mixture of democrats and republicans in the WH since the 1960's and none of them have found a way to change it. In fact, most of them have added to it. Like social security, it's considered to be a politically "untouchable" program.
We as a culture and a society have made it "okay" to take welfare. Bush's "faith based initiatives" have funneled public money into the communiities for welfare. While I think the issue of welfare is best dealt with in the community, and not by government programs, I would argue that Obama hasn't done anymore more to add to the welfare system any more than any other president.
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