A minimum to live
A minimum to live
Out of context: Reply #14
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Why would you want to remove the stigma of being on welfare? Welfare systems only sort of worked when welfare payments were a sort of a bridge in times of need, not a lifestyle choice; when it was there to help but in the long term it wasn't ok to be a loser.
It all gets turned upside down when people get fooled into treating welfare recipients as victims (of the system, corporations, government, whatever), not people who were on it because of their laziness or their bad decisions.
I knew quite a few people who were on welfare at some point, the reason all of them were on it and most rode it as long as possible was always the same: because they could.
- you are turning it into oversimplified conversation of who benefits from name calling.pr2