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The Friedman video is like a chocolate with a lump of shit in the middle. It's all sweet an well-intentioned at it's borders, but stinks at it's core.
What Friedman is pointing to as teh main problem with welfare is not being on welfare, but transitioning from it. This does not mean, as he sidewardly says at about 6:35, that everyone'd be better off if the programs evaporated. It means that a way to make the transition out of welfare needs to be more like a ramp than a cliff.
The video also glazes over the other costs that one would incur when going back to work. Child care, vehicle fueling and maintenance, etc. If you are getting $200 a week for welfare and you get offered a $200 a week job, you can't take it because of these costs. People need a chance to build up savings and get on a level place when coming off a program, or else they'll slide right back in- I wouldnt say its shit. Although you do bring up a good point... it does not solve or address all the issues, but at the core I think it is real good road map to go by.whhipp
- think it is real good philosophy to try to achieve a better system for people to get out and off of welfare. Reform it in this light.whhipp