Quote Originally Posted by Detroitnerd View Post
Except when the starving proletariat break down your door, rape your sister, and string you up by your basketball hoop in front of the garage. Perhaps during your last moments alive, you may realize you should have funded social programs a bit more. No worries. Happened to Louis XVI, so you'd be in good company.
Agreed.. the only real purpose of those programs is to placate and buy civil peace. none are actually meant to address "poverty".

however, as they say...you can pay the Danegeld, but you never get rid of the Danes. so maybe GP has a bit of a point there.