P@triot
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I would definitely agree that conservatives pay far too much attention to the dollar costs of welfare, which are not that high in the grand scheme of things, and far too little attention to the cultural costs of welfare, which not only damage the individual and our culture but plague the economy as a whole.
Worse, it's now inter-generational, and it's very doubtful that can be turned around.
Is that right? The fact that we have, as a nation, refused to allow children to starve to death, elderly to die miserably and disadvantaged to live in abject squalor has caused cultural devistation that cannot be turned around?
Go ahead and offer a paragraph of evidence for that very dire claim. Show that the cause of inter generational poverty is the existence of subsistence level social welfare and that there is no remedy that we have not yet tried.
Why do you think government is the only institution capable of stopping all the "devistation" (sic) you're babbling about? Churches, charities and especially the family were quite good at it, and far more efficient.
That is a great question which Frédéric Bastiat explained nicely many years ago:
"Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all." -Frédéric Bastiat