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First of all, I have no issue if one state wishes to be a nanny state... that is that's states perogative. However like it or not, money to fund these programs is rarely if ever fully funded by the states budgets, all you have to do is look at the numbers to realize this.

I am more than willing to let it be state driven and funded... let any blue state out there, go for it. New York decides every person regardless of how lazy, drunk or drug addicted, no matter how even though of able body and mind is unwilling to go out and earn their daily bread and its the state's responsibility to house, feed, and care for their every need from cradle to grave.. please go for it.

Of course when you find out this rewarding of entitlement encourages more entitlement and those who desire it to move there, further dragging down the system.. and as the payers too vote with their feet to move to other places where they are not hit with punative taxation to fund such things... don't cry to the fed to bail you out.

NYC itself did most of what I just said, and collapsed the city because of liberal "good intentions"... and of course came to the Fed for bailout. Detroit is in the same situation now... its fundamental economics changed over 20 years ago, and they still due to entitlement mentality not changed underlying structures of entitlement socialist mentality... Pittsburgh too, while not as extreme as the other two examples as well faces the same issue(s).

The fact is the social safetynet is a combination of hammock and shackles for many folks involved in it. A social "safety net" would not create multi-generational poverty.. such as the "war on poverty" has done.

I have no issue helping those who truly need, and those who are unable because they lack the true ability to care for themselves. Though it may be cliche for the left to argue that the right does not care, nothing could be further from the truth. We care enough to tell folks that are able to do it on their own, NO. Only the weak always tell them yes.. and enable their self destructiveness. Its rarely easy, its never fun, but it is what needs to be done at times.

The fact is there is a huge difference between being broke and being poor. The war on poverty creates the poverty mentality... or the truly poor! Lack of funds just makes one broke... poor is a state of mind, and its a state of mind that the bleeding hearts have encouraged folks to become slave to.

There is no faster way to poverty than to become a single mom... yet to criticize a section of americans who continue to behave irresponsibly for those actions is called "racist" by bleeding hearts... so much so that they have brainwashed those living in this lifestyle that to actually attempt to improve your life by solid principles that pre date the industrial revolution and the formation of this country and even the discovery of this continent... is somehow betraying their race.

I am all for getting the fed out of grandios social programs... a very basic safety net, and let the states go from there, is fine by me. Of course, I don't expect it to happen in my lifetime.