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2006-02-12 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Besoeker 2006-02-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Classical neo-Marxist ravings. I'd invite the mouths like these to identify the specific cut/reduction in growth of a particular program and then link that program to a specific line in the Constitution without ignoring the 10th Amendment. That's why they're neo-Marxist, they don't need no stinking Constitution, just a dictatorship of the proletariat.

Posted by Ebbaimp Pheper3780 2006-02-12 08:36|| 2006-02-12 08:36|| Front Page Top

#2 My coffee was not doing the job of waking me up today. This did the trick, this guy needs a good bitch slapping.

Posted by 49 pan">49 pan 2006-02-12 08:51|| 2006-02-12 08:51|| Front Page Top

#3 The only forms of welfare that make any sense are first, free or lo-cost food. The economic logic here is that farming is inherently feast-or-famine, so we always grow more food than we need, which is terribly wasteful. By creating a stable food stamps distribution, it creates a buffer of stability that would greatly help agribusiness.

In other words, by giving excess food away, you actually stabilize the markets and you *save* money. It really has little effect on the prices of sold food.

The second kind of "good" welfare is social security in its original form. That is, a program *solely* for minimum-wage earners who have no other retirement system available to them. Nobody else pays into it, and nobody else benefits from it. The alternative to this are the "poor houses" of yore, which are both expensive and usually sucked.

The third kind of welfare is not welfare, per se. It is to have and keep all sorts of competition among health care providers. This means to have a Darwinism of sorts continually in play to give the best care at the lowest price.

Equally important is to force government to not interfere, creating artificial advantages and disadvantages; and to require strict controls over medical insurance.

The best way of describing this "welfare" is keeping the pot stirred up, seeking out and eliminating bottlenecks, runaway expenses, and profiteering; most of which are caused by government interference.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-02-12 17:05|| 2006-02-12 17:05|| Front Page Top

#4 By creating a stable food stamps distribution, it creates a buffer of stability that would greatly help agribusiness.

In many parts of the country we import an awful lot of what passes through our grocery stores so food stamps are increasingly subsidies for foreign, rather than domestic, farmers.

Posted by AzCat 2006-02-12 18:53|| 2006-02-12 18:53|| Front Page Top

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