2aguy
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Most states already handle the distribution of social programs and the federal government just funds them through block grants. If fraud and abuse is all you care about then why the many calls to just slash programs across the board? If the buying votes theory was correct how many votes do you think the republicans can buy by pulling the rug from beneath the mythical "idle poor"?When charities are not enough what do you do? Just let people go hungry in the richest country in the world? I think you would but decent people do what is necessary.Another "smart" conservative tries to dissect liberal thought with the blunt instrument of conservative thought, and fails. If you want to understand liberalism do not turn to some conservative to whom altruism is an alien concept.
Altruism at the end of a lefty gun is not altruism...........altruism using other peoples money is not altruism........sadly, the left doesn't understand that simple point......
No.....moron....when the government wastes money and uses welfare to buy votes we need to bring it back to the states to deal with not the federal government...why send money to D.C. when it could just be kept at the state level where it can be better monitored for waste, fraud and abuse......as one solution.....
and no....when the mob would create soup kitchens after killing and stealing the money...that is not altruism.....dittos the government.....the politicians do it to buy votes....keeping most of the money for themselves and their friends...moron...
Because 25% of all welfare spending is fraud, waste or abuse.....not helping anyone but corrupt politicians and crooks....and sending the money to the federal government...where they "wet their beak" and then send some of that money back to the states.....is stupid....and wasteful....and empowers corrupt politicians who are too remote from actual voters in the state....if we are going to help the actual needy with tax money taken from other people at the end of a gun, it should just stay in the state...and not get passed through the greedy hands of the federal government..
That is the point......it isn't mythical...there are crooks at all levels of the process and that actually hurts the people we want to help when we forcibly take money from some Americans to give it to other Americans......