Most people get their insurance through their employer, so they won’t have the option of the public option anyway. One of the biggest sources of trouble in the healthcare system is employer-purchased insurance — it cuts the consumer out of decision-making. Yet this bill, and all the others, strengthen that perverse system. Some reform. Despite the squawking, the insurance companies love the idea of forcing people to buy their products. The corporate state thrives.
The Welfare State enslaves absolutely.
Another good point regarding the loss of Personal Responsibility and Accountability in this Nation...
The welfare state corrupts by killing the individual's spirit (by that, I am referring to human drive to create and produce) and making the individual an indentured servant to the State. I believe that humans, by nature, need to create and produce, and without the freedom to do so, even if the need is merely to feed oneself, he lacks the necessary tools for creating and maintaining an autonomous sense of self-esteem. Children are basically psychological slaves to their parents, in a manner of speaking. As is natural for them, they grow to resent the parent who refuses to let the child grow up and become himself. The welfare system, although it has good intentions, and does perform a sometimes necessary role, is very much like the parent who stifles and controls the child.
What corrupts is the systematic oppression of a people in a subversive attempt to disolved, destroy or otherwise restrict their ability to progress.
But make no mistake; there are people out there who by no fault of their own were forced unto the system and are trying very hard to get off that gravy train because they have enough pride in themselves to want to do better for themselves. To that, you can't lump everyone on welfare or who receives some form of social services aid in the same basket.
Star Parker : Back on Uncle Sam's Plantation - Townhall.comSix years ago I wrote a book called "Uncle Sam's Plantation." I wrote the book to tell my own story of what I saw living inside the welfare state and my own transformation out of it.
I said in that book that indeed there are two Americas. A poor America on socialism and a wealthy America on capitalism.
I talked about government programs like Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training (JOBS), Emergency Assistance to Needy Families with Children (EANF), Section 8 Housing, and Food Stamps.
A vast sea of perhaps well intentioned government programs, all initially set into motion in the 1960's, that were going to lift the nation's poor out of poverty.
A benevolent Uncle Sam welcomed mostly poor black Americans onto the government plantation. Those who accepted the invitation switched mindsets from "How do I take care of myself?" to "What do I have to do to stay on the plantation?"
Instead of solving economic problems, government welfare socialism created monstrous moral and spiritual problems. The kind of problems that are inevitable when individuals turn responsibility for their lives over to others.
The legacy of American socialism is our blighted inner cities, dysfunctional inner city schools, and broken black families.
Coalition on Urban Renewal and EducationStar Parker is the founder and president of CURE, the Coalition on Urban Renewal & Education, a 501c3 non-profit think tank that provides a national voice of reason on issues of race and poverty in the media, inner city neighborhoods, and public policy.
Prior to her involvement in social activism, Star Parker was a single welfare mother in Los Angeles, California. After receiving Christ, Star returned to college, received a BS degree in marketing and launched an urban Christian magazine. The 1992 Los Angeles riots destroyed her business, yet served as a springboard for her focus on faith and market-based alternatives to empower the lives of the poor.
If you ever read 1984 or watch "V is for Vendetta" then you can see the dangers of a nanny state, and how they perpetuate their power.
What utter nonsense!
That is exactly what happens with the welfare system. It was created to try and help people who were in need, from what I understand. The system has created continuous generations of people who know no other way of life. To stay in the system requires making decisions that are generally counterproductive to leading an independent life. These people are victims of the system which has created a dependent state of mind.
I'm not lumping everyone on welfare into the same basket. I'm lumping the system into a basket which I believe corrupts and destroys creative productive lives by making those people jump through hoops to stay in the system. In many cases, it's the only life they've ever known.
Give a Man a Fish, Feed him for a day.
Kill a Man and eat him, Feast for a week.
Your view of welfare state is narrow and focused. Overall, more government invovlement (broadly speaking) creates the welfare state - dependent upon government to provide things individuals should be providing for themselves. I see "welfare state" and do not think of welfare per se ... but the general view of control and dependency.
Your ignorance and immaturity are showing.
You can apply this line of thinking, not only for indiviuals underneath government, but to the various levels of government itself. Look at the relationship between states and the federal government, and how the feds basically use the carrot-stick of funding, to get states to voluntarily give up some aspects of their own power to the federal government, or to practice the guidelines the government wants them to follow. Once the state gets a small taste for that funding, its basically game over for them.
OV- I certainly wasn't trying to offend you or anyone else. In my view, the welfare system does create misery and discontent, and when a person reaches the point that living that way is preferable to living a productive and independent life, his very spirit has been crushed, often beyond repair. I'm not demonizing them. I think it's a travesty that this has happened to anyone. It takes a person of character to pull himself out of that mindset and way of life, and I applaud every one of them that do.
Like you, I'm not lumping everyone in the same basket, but there are some who take full advantage of the system and have no intentions of getting off that gravy train. Those such folks need to be cut off and made to get out in the workforce and earn their money. But until the system changes...
Absolutely.
Btw, I do support government funding for education IF the recipient can use it to become independent, and I think it should cover not only higher education, but trade skills as well. Let's face it, not everyone is capable of earning a college degree, but there are great opportunities for people who learn useful skills and apply them. To me, the most important part of education and independence is what it does for an individual psychologically and "spiritually" (although this is not really the appropriate term, it has to do with a person's sense of self-worth, and I see this as severely lacking among many in our society).
Yes, a great many people do abuse it, and frankly, much of the abuse nowadays is among people who were not raised in "the system", but have learned there are ways to get in it and take advantage of it.
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