I put it that way because of the damage off shoring creates. The welfare is the secondary infection. The horse is out of the barn and as such what good is cutting welfare now if the local economic engine, the local hometown factory, is boarded up?
I know you did.
It’s just you painted a picture of a day when ‘rugged individualism’ was the norm, when picking yourself by your bootstraps was expected of all except those who truly cannot.
A time when getting something without giving a fair equivalent in return was unheard of.
You get the picture I’m sure. Something about how you phrased it got me all nostalgic!