[quote="Woeler1"]You are talking in general over the years. We are in an economical recession. You can't just dismiss the current situation. People don't have jobs, people become poor and homeless. Don't you think if a poor person who wanted to work had the opportunity to do so, he would take that? Simple fact is that there are no opportunities when you have no money. The government without this tax is falling apart, the poverty, homeless and jobless people are at ridiculous amounts.[/quote]
Yeah, I was pretty ignorant to ignore the economic recession.
[quote="Woeler1"]And of course you tax the rich more, seriously in what kind of ''f*** the world'' state are we?
These are the yearly spendings of the US
Defense - $851 billion. Education - $69.8 billion.
Health and Human Services - $71.7 billion.
Housing and Urban Development - $35.3 billion.
Agriculture - $21.4 billion.
Defense is more than 10 times bigger than health care. That is and will always be ridiculous![/quote]
No, you do not heavily tax the wealthy, you know the ones that supply the poor the jobs they need. Unfortunately, they can't during this Great Recession due to the economy's uncertainity.
Okay, you believe what you want about the budget, but according to
usgovernmentspending.com, health care composes of 17% of the federal budget compared to defense spending equaling 14% in 2012.
And from what I'm gathering, Obamacare will not control the cost of health care for the majority, and add more than $340 billion to the nation’s budget deficit. So, expect health care spending too increase even more. You happy, Woeler!
[quote="Azdgari"]
Lionking, would you change your argument at all in response to several studies which indicate that social mobility in the US is
actually lower than in other parts of the world? It's actually very difficult for those born into disadvantaged situations to climb out them. I also disagree with free handouts--how about programs that create opportunities for the impoverished? That's what the war on poverty is actually about, creation of programs to give opportunities to underprivelidged Americans. Welfare gets bastardized very often as "just giving free handouts and not solving the problem" while in fact (other than unemployment benefits which I think are quite important in a time like this when, it's been said, there aren't enough jobs to go around) most of the money goes to just that, trying to create opportunities.
[quote]...the poor need to learn to help themselves.[/quote]
Yikes.[/quote]
Lion
Prince, by the way!
I may change my opinion for now because this economy is making job opportunities scare, and with no education, zip! However, when the economy improves, and the free market can grow again, I do expect the poor to better their lot by at least applying for a job that requires their skills.
[quote="FlipMode"][quote="TheLionPrince"]
Not that you get me wrong, I'm all for the government to help those in poverty, but the poor need to learn to help themselves.[/quote]
Forgive me, but is that not a little contradictory? And how are people with no homes, no water etc supposed to help themselves exactly anyway?
Wait, by "poor" do we mean like, Third World or just generally people less wealthy than us and can barely afford to pay gas bills etc?[/quote]
We are clearly talking about the poor in America. Now, the poor in Africa and other Third World can't help themselves due to their governments being so corrupt. But, they're free to come to the U.S. if they want to get somewhere in life, at least do it legally.
Now, I don't expect any replies because we are going way off topic. If you want to reply, send me a private message, and I'll reply back as soon as I can. Please and thank you!
