DiamondDave
Army Vet
Which specific entitlement programs are you referring?
Social Security has been a fantastic safety net. Medicare as an offshoot, much later, also a fantastic entitlement program that has helped move our society forward.
I, personally am fiscally conservative, but arguing that Social Security passed in the 1930s is somehow a bad thing is a really hard point to argue.
Yes, we need to reform some entitlement programs, and perhaps get rid of some others altogether, but Social Security, specifically, is a good thing and has been for a long time, just needs to be reformed over time.
I believe Food Stamps and Unemployment started under FDR. There's a reasonable argument to be made that those programs cause an "entitlement" issue. They were close to a necessity at the time and can be reformed going forward.
Most of the entitlement programs are paid for by the recipient from working over time. It's protection for our society.
Social Security has been a huge DISASTER... entitlement junkies and those blinded by entitlement propaganda are about the only ones that consider it any sort of success... And Medicare, are you fucking serious?? Please look at the amounts of governmental control in combination with the huge red tape (and associated governmental expenditures over ALL areas of government that have their hands in these entitlement pots)... please also look on the average rates of return on normal investment in comparison to the return rate to social security... not to mention the abuses of the SS fund that were facilitated thanks to Mr. FDR's efforts to create this socialist program and associated slush fund
Most entitlement programs are NOT paid for by the recipient over time.. the opposite is indeed true... the non-contributors to societal government are paid for by the contributors at enormous expense for not only the handout by the bloated government behind it
All government entitlement programs where the recipient is not a ward of the state should be completely eliminated... it is not the job of government to be your mommy, your nanny, your personal safety net, or your boo boo kisser
Charity and personal responsibility should be the ONLY personal safety nets in this country... you and you alone are the only one responsible for your personal needs and well being.... it is not someone else's job.. and for those people who like to VOLUNTARILY help out their fellow citizens, more power to us all... choose the cause of your liking... choose whether you want it to be local help or national help or international help or anything in between... if someone is deemed incapable or incompetent enough to help themselves, then it may be necessary to have them committed or deemed wards of the state (like many challenged people without family)...
The touchy feely bullshit that has been painfully injected into our constitutional government has mutated our system into a multi-tendril monster of enormous size and scope.. not at all what was intended..
The creation of his policies and programs not only did immediate damage and extended the depression, but set piss poor precedent and has warped our government for generations
What good he did in decisions during the war effort (notice I did not say his policies on the war before we actually joined the fights) is counterbalanced by the irreparable damage he caused the overall system of federal government....