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Welfare, universal healthcare and other such programs are setup to create a dependence for people. If your getting money for doing nothing or just having more babies are people going to change their situations to get off of these programs? No they aren't. The Dems don't care if people are hooked or not, they need to keep a voting base and with universal health care, are going to create a whole new voting block who are only going to vote for them to keep the tit programs active and keep them from working for themselves.
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You didn't address the point that I made that the Gov't which passed Medicare part D - the biggest entitlement program in decades - was Republican, squarely. How do you account for this, when it is the Dems who are looking to create a 'nanny state?'
In Texas, welfare recipients didn't receive add'tl benefits for kids they had while on welfare - and I believe there is a time limit for welfare as well. It isn't as if we can't have programs to help people, and make them sensible at the same time.
Personally, I would like to see welfare replaced with at WPA-style program to provide jobs for people who can't get them elsewhere. Not great jobs, or high-paying jobs, but jobs, rather then paying people to do nothing.
Cycloptichorn