Originally Posted by
TKshreve
I like to think of myself as fairly progressive when discussing social issues and economic ways of governing a country. Furthermore, I have always viewed a "bottoms up" approach to strengthening any given issue/department/business of concern.
In this case I simply have to disagree. First, the country needs to find ways to curb spending. Your suggestion only aggravates it. Second, the welfare/safety net we have in place is far from effective. It promotes a style of life opposed to a second chance. Third, the federal gov't has proven time and again it is inefficient with huge expenditure programs like this. People take advantage of the system, and it costs even more money to root out the fraud and white collar crimes that plague such public troughs of expenditure. Lastly, even if you were able to somehow expand the budget of our safety net [[which would never happen with our current law makers) you would see more pork and grizzle attached to anything remotely helpful it would torpedo any attempt at frugally addressing the real issue.
You see, Washington is as broken as any of the hundreds of poverty-ridden regions that we currently pretend do not exist.