The government is there to protect us
If we start doling out welfare checks and health care to every schmuck that walks the street their will be no benefit to the hard working individuals of this country.
"Us"
includes every schmuck that walks the street and "protecting," well that\'s a conveniently vague term, isn\'t it? Offering a kind of minimum means to live and raise those children
is protection. And, there are no happy health care and welfare fairies who create the support and protection for these families, even if it\'s protection from their own incompetent mothers and fathers. That kind of protection costs money and that means we all have to foot the bill since we fund the government and this is part of the government\'s role.
I am middle class. Explain how the IRS and welfare benefit me Eik.
Welfare doesn\'t benefit you. For that matter, neither does ovarian cancer research, but the world and government don\'t revolve around only your needs. Thank God.
No one forced that mother to have six kids. Sounds like she is lacking in the personal responsibility department. I should not have to pay for her laziness, inability to use birth control and use common sense.
Yeah, you\'re right about her lack of responsibility, but unless you want a government that comes in and ties our citizens\' tubes, or one that leaves hard-luck children to die like in a third world country, then you\'ll have to pay for welfare.
Even if you can\'t think of anyone but yourself, luckily most of the country values American life and has already put those programs in place. They\'re not perfect and could use some tweaking, but they\'re necessary.
I really don\'t get the high-horse, holier-than-thou, government-for-me-only attitude. It\'s like wanting to vote for your own personal fantasy world, no? That\'s one way to go, I guess.
