[quote=SD Realtor]…history always has shown that having the govt make the decisions about who gets what always ends poorly because those in or aligned with govt always took advantage of the situation creating the very class based society that was supposed to be avoided.[/quote]
(Not that you were addressing me, but) I don’t see it as a matter of the government deciding who gets what. I see it as the government addressing a problem that no other entity can or will. I see the government spending our money to try to fix that problem, but not by giving our money to poor people.
David Brooks writes an excellent article:
I hadn’t thought of it in those terms, but this is probably why I used to be a conservative and why now I’m not. (For the record, I’m not a liberal, either. Some of my views coincide with those of liberals, some with conservatives. Which, if you ask me, would describe all people who can think for themselves.)
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some quotes from the article:
Republicans repeat formulas — government support equals dependency — that make sense according to free-market ideology, but oversimplify the real world.
[Traditional conservatives] were intensely interested in creating the sort of social, economic and political order that would encourage people to work hard, finish school and postpone childbearing until marriage.
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Huh. That second one sounds just like what I’ve been saying.
