From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Wed Sep 21 2005 - 12:15:57 BST
> [Case]
> This was not addressed in my earlier post but: Notice that all of your
> examples of "welfare" are directed at children, the elderly and the infirm
> not healthy adults.
Fine, except for the caretakers who skim off the benefits directed at
children, the elderly and the infirm.
> We as a society are saying that individuals should get
> something of an even break.
In the U.S. every child gets a shot at being educated .
> Children are not responsible agents and
> certainly deserve to be fed and educated regardless of how creepy their
> parents are.
Parents should be held accountable for child neglect.
> How can conservatives seek to deny these loser parents to
> right to terminate their unwanted children then visit the sins of the
> parents on the unwanted offspring?
How can liberals sanction murdering children?
> You should take a look at these people
> who don't work. They are not who you think they are.
Who are they?
> As for other public services like Libraries, roads, parks, etc., they have
> been condemned by the libertarians, who are the archetypes of liaise fair.
> Not sure you are one Platt but if you favor even these concessions to
> public purpose doesn't that make you just a little bit pregnant?
Depends on how you define "public purpose."
> Social Security is set up as a trust fund, not as a redistribution of
> wealth in the sense you are using it.
Social Security is redistribution of income from one generation to the
other. There is no trust fund. Congress spent it all long ago.
Platt
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