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**KkJvrG4d** · 11-08-2011, 04:22 PM

Ah, Zombie Reagan! So glad you could join us.

Once again, Sweden and Germany prove you wrong; we're always going to have people who can't take care of themselves. Rather than lettin them starve in the streets, doesn't it make more sense to make sure they're taken care of?

Ah, Liberal apologist!

Sweden and Germany prove me right. They have public assistance systems geared toward getting families work and supporting them while they work until they are self-sufficient. They don't cut people checks without any sort of strategy or knowledge as to where the money is going. The goal of the US public assistance isn't to create a worker but to replace a source of income. In this case, the US spends a lot of money (arguably a lot more than the countries you cite) with less results. In your zeal to play the left wing versus right wing game, you fail to take into account that a moderate/liberal may actually be for public assistance but not in the form that it exists today; which, again, is unsustainable.

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KkJvrG4d Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 382 Senior Member	Ah, Zombie Reagan! So glad you could join us. Once again, Sweden and Germany prove you wrong; we're always going to have people who can't take care of themselves. Rather than lettin them starve in the streets, doesn't it make more sense to make sure they're taken care of? Ah, Liberal apologist! Sweden and Germany prove me right. They have public assistance systems geared toward getting families work and supporting them while they work until they are self-sufficient. They don't cut people checks without any sort of strategy or knowledge as to where the money is going. The goal of the US public assistance isn't to create a worker but to replace a source of income. In this case, the US spends a lot of money (arguably a lot more than the countries you cite) with less results. In your zeal to play the left wing versus right wing game, you fail to take into account that a moderate/liberal may actually be for public assistance but not in the form that it exists today; which, again, is unsustainable.
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