Jose wrote:
So you think that failing to care for the nation's poor is appropriate
for a government, and it makes the nation stronger.


No, I think that taking care of the nation's poor creates unmotivated
people, in many ways. This makes the nation weaker. Welfare is a
disaster. I do agree that SS is not quite the same as welfare. It is
however getting dangerously close.


This is what socialism does to people. Remember the Soviet Union
collapsing under its own weight? Oh yeah, Cuba is a real economic
powerhouse too. Europe is a mere shadow of its former self and
now we in the United States and following right along.

But what do you think would be
the consequences of failing to care for the poor?


Those poor would suffer. Those on the edge of poor would not be
motivated to become poor (so they could get free money).


Its called Darwin's theory... and it has worked every where it is
tried. In the first 150 years of this nations history it is what
bread a strong, hearty stock of people that built a country from
nothing to be a world power in just a few generations. Good
decision making and hard work = success.

Now that we subsidize supidity and poor decision making, we are
are breeding a large population of losers, expecting government
to bail them out if they break a hangnail.

Do you think it would be cheaper to police
the desperate souls who are driven to crime
because they are hungry?


That's not what drives (most) crime. So yes.

I give up. I hope you get a chance to live in the world you desire.


You paint a very simplistic picture. I don't think the picture is so
simple - there are =huge= unintended consequences to seemingly well
meaning government policies.

Jose

Socialists see a utopia that will never come to pass because they
cannot see beyond a simplistic picture that refuses to hold people
responsible for their own actions (or in-actions).