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I think welfare is a good thing. Some people should be unemployed. Here in the San Francisco Bay area, there was a time when there were just more jobs then there were people. It was if all the tech support and customer service reps became dot.com VP's, all the people who should have been flipping burgers at some fast food establishment were given postions of responsibility, and the completely unemployable got jobs in public transportation and the service economy. Our private utilities are now run by people too stupid to dig ditches.
Everything went to hell. The smallest transaction now takes forever and inevitably is done improperly. Screwing up and a cheerful, oblivious rudeness are the status quo. Our entire service economy is built on the twin pillars of incompentance and sloth.
If the welfare rolls were increased in the US, we'd all have less stress, lead happier lives, and live longer. Some people shouldn't be allowed to work. We should pay some people to watch Jerry Springer, Jenny Jones, and soap operas, because if they continue to work, they will eventually drive us all nuts.
Long live the welfare state!
Paul
paulcs@speakeasy.net
[This message has been edited by paulcs (edited 05 May 2001).]
And you know what another bad part about the welfare system in the US. If the father lives in the home, benefits are reduced. If the mother is married, benefits are reduced. Plus it is one of the largest single groups of people that are constantly manipulated by politicians. All a politician has to do is convince this group of people that the other person he running against is a threat to welfare system and he gets the votes. That right there is probably one of the biggest reason that I feel that the government should not be in the charities business.
Joel
[This message has been edited by Joel (edited 05 May 2001).]
Libertarian is still the way to go if we truly want a real change.
On a more serious note, and to get back to some of the origins of this thread - the Hollywood Police posted 10 arrest photos of the same woman from 1979 to 1989 on the net.
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