Ah, but then one is, in this context, dealing with people who believe that government shouldn't be taking "their" money away from them to help "needy" people. They think that government should just be standing back and letting the economy roar, so as to create jobs for all those people so they don't *have* to take government handouts. (I think a large portion of the people who follow this logic also beleive that most welfare recipients squander their money on drugs and booze or scam the system, but let's ignore them and just deal with the people who are acting out of conviction rather than hate.)
I can understand that they think that; I just can't understand *why*; we instituted the "War on Poverty" in the 1960s, when our economy was very strong. It didn't seem to be providing for all the poor then, and it sure isn't now.
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Date: 2004-09-08 05:03 pm (UTC)I can understand that they think that; I just can't understand *why*; we instituted the "War on Poverty" in the 1960s, when our economy was very strong. It didn't seem to be providing for all the poor then, and it sure isn't now.