[Hemingway's Ghost]

So, instead of addressing the issue of giving people money for doing nothing, you propose a "solution" of giving people money for doing nothing more efficiently?

Sweet Jesus. This is the Free Republic website, no?

[expat2]

You have to live with what is, not what you would like it to be. First of all, once the different program spending levels are aggregated into a total, it will become clearer how much we are spending for this. Secondly, there will always be some level of support for the poor by the rest of us, if only to avoid outrageous levels of crime, and the issue is ‘how much’?