09-23-2018, 11:50 AM
(09-22-2018, 10:51 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Show me a welfare recipient who isn't dependent on the welfare system. If you find one then explain to me why they're still on it.
I am for now. I had a bad back that created all sorts of subsidiary problems, including clinical depression. Medicaid will take care of my teeth, an ugly subcutaneous cyst, and the depression from a back pain. It will also solve some behaviors that created family problems. Physical therapy has started to solve a really-bad back problem that practically crippled me and pain that made me a miserable person to be around.
Without question, work is more satisfying than welfare even in a depressed area. I may have to move, but at least I will have a month of payments to facilitate a necessary move to some place where the jobs available better suit my talents. Hollow as consumerism is, it certainly beats poverty.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.