"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
I leave what other people feel appropriate to what they can give to charities completely up to them without judgment of any kind.
I just know that welfare and food stamps in particular are way out of control, basically overwhelmed by fraud and abuse.
I am like you in that I want to see the fraud and abuse eliminated.
It's not about charities. Welfare isn't charity.
You can't have fraud and abuse if programs like welfare and food stamps that shouldn't exist don't exist. That you still want those programs to exist proves you have determine who should be forced to pay for someone else's irresponsibility.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB109520630433518093
Before Social Security, Most Americans Faced Very Bleak Retirement
By Cynthia CrossenStaff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal
Updated Sept. 15, 2004 12:01 am ET
Getting old is rarely regarded as a happy prospect, but before Social Security, aging in America often meant penury and sometimes even the poorhouse.
When America was a nation of farmers, men and women who no longer could do hard physical labor frequently lived with their children and contributed to the domestic economy by babysitting, tending the garden, sewing or cooking. By 1920, however, when more Americans lived in cities than on farms, old people faced a bleaker future. Urban homes were smaller, and wages paid the rent..
Yep, that's where we draw the line dude!
I have always been a giving person, and I have always paid my fair share of taxes- BUT IF I AM GOING TO PAY TAXES- I SHOULD HAVE SOME SAY SO WHERE THOSE TAX DOLLARS ARE SPENT!
YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO PAYS TAXES, NOR SHOULD YOU GET TO DECIDE WHERE EVERY DOLLAR GOES OR DOESN'T GO- AND NEITHER SHOULD I!
Yet while you want to decide where your tax dollars go, you want to decide where mine should go.
The sad part is those that don't pay the taxes that fund the programs you support existing get to vote for those that determine where that money goes. Why should those not contributing to the pot get to determine how the pot is spent?
Those programs do nothing but create dependency. Why do you support dependency?
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