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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting responses. I would like to hear the issue of self responsibility. If you cannot take care of yourself I agree you should not starve, be homeless, or suffer health wise. But if someone else is going to pay for that then you should have to [b]concede some of your freedoms [/b]such as how you spend financial support, have to live a reasonably healthy lifestyle, not have children while you cannot afford to take care of yourself.   In the case you do not say " thank you" for the help and keep living a destructive lifestyle, then I believe it is you who forfeits the safety net. At that point if a charity wishes to help wonderful but government has to draw lines at no wins[/quote]

Slavery.[/quote]
Wow. I agree with the first PP.

So you're saying that if we set up some parameters for people receiving taxpayer money, we are enslaving them? So if we were to say that people on welfare cannot spend money on, oh....I don't know....fancy hats, that's akin to slavery (especially when these same people are saying the welfare they get isn't sufficient)? We, as people giving money to poor people, have every right to block poor expenditures of that money. If the poor people getting the fruits of our labor don't like it, they don't have to take our money.

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You can't ban people from having children.  You cannot enslave their reproductive rights because they get welfare.

We give money to poor people because that's the right, ethical, and productive thing to do.  We don't give them money to control their behavior.
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It's not right or ethical if people are going to have kids to increase their welfare payments.... and don't tell me that doesn't happen, because it sure as hell does. Gaming that welfare system happens all the time.

People enroll in to food stamp programs also and then set up a store front and sell the food they receive for profit. That's all documented. It's not policed nearly enough.

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