A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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The welfare system was designed to do something different when it was started than what it does now. It was a safety net to help people get back to work: if they were sick, it would help them get back.
Society might have been better off without them, but we are supposed to look after the disadvantaged, and so we do it. But it doesn't help the society.
The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.
Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
With fewer resources to share around more people, how can the poor have improved lifestyles?
If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.
It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.
The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.
The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.
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