Safety nets for the poor and disadvantaged are a must for any compassionate nation, but encouraging folks to go on the dole when not absolutely necessary is disgraceful.
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If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. And that's a challenging proposition.
A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution.
Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock.
If Americans are reluctant to go on the dole that's because they have a healthy work ethic.
You know, there are people making a lot of money in this country who can actually afford their own health care. We are in a situation where we got a safety net in place in this country for people who frankly don't need one. We got to focus on making sure we got a safety net for those who actually need it.
Our people want jobs. They don't want a safety net as a way of life.
We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence.
At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better.
In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.
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