francoHFW
Diamond Member
Anyone who thinks cutting our crummy safety net...Yup, crime is the answer, not welfare, training and cheap ed., UE, spending on infrastructure, or food stamps. ANYTHING to save the greedy idiot GOP rich, dupe.100+ pages and we still have over half the people arguing that you can't care about the poor unless you are liberal and giving the money of others to them.
Government will never be the mechanism to best help the poor. And no matter how many people want to pretend you are not justified in ignoring the poor because government programs exist. Go out and feed someone.
There is one thing we've never tried (at least in my lifetime) to end poverty, and that is to end the handouts.
If you get hungry enough, you'll take one of those jobs posted at every corner of every street in the US. If your income is not enough, you will work more hours to bring in that income. If there is nothing incentivizing you to not work more hours, you may end up working 60 plus hours a week.
I would love to see all handouts stopped for a period of two years just to see the end results. I'd bet a months paycheck we would reduce poverty more that way than giving people money they didn't work for. I bet with no handouts, less people would enter poverty in the first place. Like I said, it's never been tried. The closest we came to that was in the 90's with welfare reform, and that was a huge success.
But why look back at what worked? Just listen to liberals to solve poverty.
Who, besides you, brought up crime?